Performance Nutrition expands its innovative urea phosphite technology for crop growers

Performance Nutrition, a specialty provider of innovative agricultural and turf fertilizers and crop protection products, announced that it has expanded its Prudent line of urea phosphite-based fertilizers with the commercial launch of two new products. Both products are now available for purchase through Performance Nutrition’s distribution partners throughout the United States.

PRUDENT AG and PRUDENT SI expand upon Performance Nutrition’s urea phosphite technology platform that provides superior phosphite mobility for better root and foliar absorption, improved resilience and abiotic stress tolerance, and improved nitrogen and carbon assimilation for better biomass and increased yields.

Performance Nutrition’s urea phosphite technology achieves superior performance over potassium phosphite, largely due to the difference in ionic charges. Since the surfaces of plants have a net positive ionic charge, the like positive charge of the potassium ion found in potassium phosphite can limit its absorption in the plant and stunt root development and plant growth. With a net zero ionic charge, urea phosphite does not face this barrier, allowing for higher phosphorus uptake and efficacy.

All Performance Nutrition’s PRUDENT formulations increase stress tolerance and resilience in plants by delivering a readily available phosphite source for rapid plant response, stimulating key pathways that support natural defense mechanisms. With healthier plants, PRUDENT helps crops and turf retain more water to increase drought tolerance and withstand other challenging growing conditions.

Both PRUDENT AG and PRUDENT SI are compatible with most fertilizers and crop protection products, seamlessly integrating into fertility and crop protection programs. They can be applied via foliar sprays, fertigation or soil applications. A lower pH level compared to most potassium phosphite products also allows PRUDENT to be conducive to more tank mix combinations.

″We’re certainly excited to announce the latest additions to our urea phosphite fertilizer platform and to introduce this unique technology to the agriculture markets,″ said Dr. Chris Underwood, Director of Innovation and Business Development for Performance Nutrition. ″Our PRUDENT 44 and PRUDENT 40 PLUS products have long been popular with our golf and sports turf customers. We’ve now expanded upon this proven technology to formulate PRUDENT AG specifically for row and specialty crop growers.″

Underwood continued, ″With the addition of silicon to support strong plant structure, hardiness, and stress resistance, PRUDENT SI can reduce the risk of crop lodging in field crops and is also ideal for many turf applications like putting greens or to achieve well-defined mow lines in sports turf. The introduction of these two products helps round out our urea phosphite fertilizer offerings for field crop growers. This line-up also includes existing products such as PRUDENT RX, which blends our amino acids and chelated micronutrients technologies with our urea phosphite platform, as well as introducing higher levels of nutrients like nitrogen and nickel.″