At the American Seed Trade Association’s booth at the National Association of Farm Broadcaster’s convention in Kansas City, Farm Director KC Sheperd, visited with the Agronomy Manager at Sound Agriculture, Zach Carlson. Sheperd and Carlson talk about how Sound Ag aims to create a more agile and resilient food system.
“Sound Ag is a company that is based in science, and obviously, trying to really be a sustainability kind of company that has products that help with the reduction of synthetic fertilizers and inputs for farmers,” Carlson said.
Carlson talked about Sound Ag’s product, SOURCE, which works with the microbes already present in the soil, and the equipment in use, to give crops more access to nitrogen and phosphorus.
“SOURCE is a biochemistry full year applied kind of product that activates the microbes in the soil to fix nitrogen out of the atmosphere and then also solubilize the phosphorus that is tied up based upon different soil characteristics, mostly pH, that does cause that,” Carlson said.
Compared to more traditional methods, Carlson said SOURCE is unique because it goes against expensive synthetic fertilizers by activating those microbes in the soil.
“The space that SOURCE and Sound Agriculture is in, we are really on the kind of tip of the sphere on where to go with how these different tools are all going to come to this space,” Carlson said.
Sound Ag is invested in using what is already in the soil to the producer’s benefit and reducing synthetic nitrogen. Sound Ag, Carlson added, is not registered in all 50 states, but they are registering on many different crops.
“Corn and beans were kind of our baseline,” Carlson said. “Now, we are expanding into wheat, cotton, alfalfa, and grass hay. Definitely more to come on that front.”
SOURCE for wheat and cotton in Oklahoma, Carlson said, will be on sale at a limited release in 2023. Producers can visit sound.ag to find a dealer near them.
