Education Mineralization

Optimize your fertilizer investment while growing healthier plants and enjoying a greater yield.

What happened?

It’s the end of harvest. As you comb through the data, you chalk up a bad yield to a rough year. Little rain, high heat in the early months, and overall poor conditions. You say you can’t control the weather. And you are right. But you can make a difference in the health of your plants, and it starts in your soil.

What is it?

At the end of a bad year, you may have heard your agronomist tell you that there wasn’t enough mineralization in the soil. But what does that mean? And how do you fix it?

Mineralization is the breakdown of organic matter into available nutrients that the plant can take up to increase health. In ideal conditions, mineralization occurs at a standard rate. But how many years are the conditions completely ideal?

What can I do?

Mineralization depends on a proper carbon to nitrogen ratio in the soil, typically sustained through ideal soil conditions that allow the organic material to break down and the microbes to take in extra nutrients. Our liquid carbon-based fertilizers and biologicals help keep that ratio in balance by providing the plant with carbon in the form of domestically sourced sugar cane molasses that your crops are going to love! Sugar cane molasses has three main dissolved sugars, as well as many other micro- and macronutrients, allowing it to be readily available for optimized plant uptake, while still providing the extra nutrients your plants need.

So you can’t control the weather, but with our products you can work to mimic the ideal conditions your plants need. Are you ready to take control?

Nate Ide visits with Jopp Brothers about Mineralization

Data & Studies

BioBoost Corn Yield Data
5 locations - true SxS comparisons
4.68bu/a advantage over untreated
NO head-to-head losses to any competitor INCLUDING Hopper Throttle
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2024 401 Corn Yield Data

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2024 Microbe Performance
Yield Data from previous SxS
401 in furrow with a food source
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SCMN Case Study on Bioboost vs. Terasym 450
600 acres of split planter data of Bioboost Corn vs. Terasym 450
Visual difference as shown in previous slide.
Avg yield advantage over 600 acres- 5bu/a
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NCIA Case Study 401 vs. Starter
6 different replications taken in Winnebago county
Each replication was 401/BLG vs. 5 Gallons of 10-34-0
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2024 Corn Meltdown Data
The Sun- all the other planets revolve around
Changing all structures of your soilliquid cover crop
32 different microbe strains- speeds up stalk breakdown by 75%
Meltdown is proven to add 15-30 points of WEOC “soluble carbon” each year of use
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2024 Soybeans Meltdown Data
Why- Residue digestor, carbon enhancer, Nutrient recycler, 32 different microbe strains, and better plantibility
When- Fall or Spring “pre emerge” application
Rate- 32oz per acre
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Southern MN Fall Meltdown: White Mold Control Study
+8.95bu/a advantage using Meltdown
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Stress Mitigation 2024 Corn Yield Data
Why- Ethylene inhibitor and a stress mitigator, along with 18L Amino Acids to allow easy absorption and aided stress mitigation, cobalt which is a natural stress mitigator, and a full rate of BLG to help drive other nutrients and applied product into the plant along with a food source.
When- Any post spray foliar pass
Rate- 16oz per acre
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Central Iowa Relax RX Corn Fungicide Study
VT application with fungicide
AmiNo Acids are readily absorbed by plants- thus allowing for more efficiency out of applied fungicides
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Stress Mitigation 2024 Soybean Yield Data
AmiNo applied with fungicide.
All rates were done at 32oz/a
AmiNo- helps convert high nitrate environments into useable protein for the soybean plant.
This was the most consistent pass done on soybeans this year.
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Central Iowa Relax RX Soybean Fungicide Study
Relax RX applied at R3 on Soybeans SxS against Miravis Neo.
800-acre study with multiple random checks.
Historically are our yield robbing diseases controlled by a foliar fungicide? -White Mold, IDC, SDS
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Stress Mitigation 2024 Corn Yield Data SE MN
AmiNo case study in SE MN.
Over a dozen replications across 800 acres.
AmiNo showed an advantage over a likewise competitor by 5.6 bu/a
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Iowa Select Manure Analysis Data

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Goettl Farms Case Study: Balanced Fertility
How did they manage to average 60+ bu/a more on corn and 10+ bu/a more on Soybeans?

Not over applying commercial fertilizer
3 yr. history using both microbe teams
This allowed soil to function at a higher level
Appropriate fertility doesn’t burn as much carbon
While a solid balance with both microbe teams produces additional carbon
The higher the carbon the higher function and greater production a soil system can have
Space out microbe teams and additional applications
Recipes across operation ranged from $20-$40 - LESS IS MORE
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