Oklahoma Farm Report’s Maci Carter met with Keith O’Brien, Senior Director for Application Research and Development at Pivot Bio to discuss their unique nitrogen products.
Pivot Bio’s unique approach uses microbes that pull nitrogen from the atmosphere and grow on the root system of plants, producing ammonia for the plant to use. This method, which does not leach or volatilize, provides an efficient and dependable source of nitrogen, producing up to 40 pounds per acre for corn and 25 pounds for wheat.
“We want to get the microbe in the soil close to the seed,” O’Brien said. “So, it has to be either an in-furrow application or on-seed application. Once the see germinates and develops a root, the microbes colonize the root system and that is when they start utilizing the nitrogen from the atmosphere and living off of the root system in a symbiotic relationship with that plant in producing ammonia.”
Pivot Bio’s products are environmentally sustainable and have no ill-effects on the environment. Seed treatments are very common practices in corn, so using Pivot Bio’s product is user-friendly for the producer.
The company plans to expand into new crops and formulations, with a focus on wheat and corn. “We go up to 40 pounds of nitrogen now, and we are going to see if we can move that to needle even higher,” O’Brien said.
Additional information can be found and products purchased at pivotbio.com, where you can locate a local representative.
