Leading sustainable agriculture company, Pivot Bio has recently been listed as a finalist in both the Agriculture and General Excellence categories on Fast Company’s 2024 list of World Changing Ideas. This honor marks the fifth in a series of top industry recognitions bestowed on Pivot Bio in recent months, following being named to CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list, Reuter’s Responsible Business’s Product Innovation awards, TIME’s list of Best Inventions and Fast Company’s top 50 Most Innovative Companies.
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Pivot Bio’s on-seed technology introduced an entirely new class of products when launched in 2022 by integrating nitrogen seamlessly with planting. The first-ever product to deliver nitrogen-producing microbes on the seed for crops like corn, sorghum and spring wheat, Pivot Bio PROVEN 40 On-Seed (OS) and Pivot Bio RETURN On-Seed provide growers with nitrogen that is better for their farms and the environment.
“Our on-seed technology enhances crop potential all season long by providing an efficient and dependable nitrogen source, ensuring nitrogen reaches the plant and isn’t lost to volatilization or leaching,” stated Karsten Temme, Ph.D., Pivot Bio Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer. “With the introduction of our on-seed application, no special equipment is required for growers to use our nitrogen-producing microbes, making them available to every grower across the United States for the first time and providing a new, powerful tool for improving on-farm productivity and sustainability.”
Pivot Bio products are presently used across 5 million acres in the United States, with just two percent of the emissions of synthetic fertilizer and manufactured with 1,000 times less water. Last year, for the first time, corn farmers could plant their seeds with up to 25 percent of their nitrogen needs already in place through the use of this groundbreaking class of products.