PERSPECTIVES

Josh Dunn, Pivot Bio field trial manager, shared this photo of an early stage field trial in Missouri, planted with Pivot Bio PROVEN™ April 25 and inundated with rain thereafter. Pivot Bio microbes keep nitrogen at the roots even in extreme weather.

Growers across the corn belt are trying hard to wrap up spring planting. Due to the unseasonably wet and cold conditions we have experienced, a common concern for corn growers is, “How did my nitrogen weather the spring?”

In later years, Norman Borlaug would be known as the man who saved a billion lives, but in 1944, he was an agronomist with a problem. He’d moved to Mexico City to join the Cooperative Wheat Research Production Program, a collaborative effort between...