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Pivot Bio encourages field-by-field reviews to find input savings

A fertilizer industry leader says producers should be rethinking every input and how it’s applied to find efficiencies in the year ahead.

Pivot Bio Chief Commercial Officer Chris Turner tells Brownfield nutrient management plans need to start with a soil test.

“Work field by field to make a nitrogen recommendation as we start to think about the ’27 crop,” he says. “We do not want to get into a blanket recommendation. We want to be prescriptive based on the field conditions and what the goals are.”

He says fall anhydrous is a good example of a nutrient that can be managed differently to create fuel savings.

“If I can reduce the number of tanks that I need to manage or haul, there’s an efficiency there—less trips to town, less delivery costs, whatever the case might be, but I become all of a sudden more efficient,” he explains.

Turner says Pivot Bio has also been evaluating its supply chain for efficiencies and innovations.

“We are a different company in the last two to three years than we ever have been before,” he says. “We’re approaching our product placement different than we ever have. We’re approaching our production and the product quality different than we ever have, and we’re bringing new innovation.”

Turner says the company is now offering farmers multi-year contracts to lock in prices and supplies through 2029.

Pivot Bio manufactures biological-based nitrogen products in St. Louis, Missouri, that can be applied in-furrow at planting, as a seed treatment, or in the planter box.