Verdesian launches renewed focus on grower nutrient use efficiency

The company’s new mission statement focuses on the grower customer and is supported by Verdesian’s core values that guide the behavior of all Verdesian team members.
 

Verdesian’s new mission statement reads: “At Verdesian Life Sciences, we enable a sustainable future for farmers through nutrient use efficiency.”
 

“Growers are deeply committed to greater sustainable efficiency and less waste in nutrient use, while growing healthier, more robust crops,” says Paul Beck, vice president of Global Marketing at Verdesian. “Our new mission statement reflects Verdesian’s continued commitment to the development of nutrient use efficiency technologies to help solve these challenges.”
 

Throughout 2017 and 2018, Verdesian has stepped up recruitment of top scientific, sales and marketing talent committed to sustainable nutrient use efficiency, increasing its technical sales and development department by 15 percent to provide greater access to Verdesian technologies and science.
 

Kuide Qin Ph.D., chief science officer for Verdesian, was recently brought aboard to lead nutrient use efficiency technology R&D. Kuide is a veteran scientist working with sustainable agriculture and modern farming formerly with Dow AgroSciences and Bayer Crop Science.
 

Qin’s work over a decade working closely with farmers worldwide has focused on efficient use of agriculture inputs, with an aim to reduce the environmental impact of agricultural chemicals while increasing production to meet the demand of a growing population and declining agricultural land availability.
 

Verdesian has launched a number of new nutrient use efficiency technologies over the past year for both row crop and specialty crop growers along with a number of planned launches in 2018 and 2019.

Take Off LS – A nitrogen utilization and carbon assimilation technology that optimizes efficient plant nutrient acquisition, allowing for more efficient plant development, and better crop quality and yield potential
 

AVAIL HV – A phosphorus efficiency technology for high volume fertilizer applications designed to provide better nutrient access during early plant development, early season plant performance and crop quality potential
 

MicroSync – A micronutrient and sulfur technology designed to improve micronutrient efficiency and soil fertility programs in row crops and vegetables
 

FlexConnect – An inoculant applicator technology designed to reduce waste, reduce cross contamination and improve efficiency when mixing inoculant products
 

Verdesian is further demonstrating its commitment to nutrient use efficiency farming practices with the launch of the Verdesian Performance Guarantee in 2017, which provides growers and retailers using AVAIL Phosphorus Fertilizer Enhancer and/or NutriSphere-N Nitrogen Fertilizer Manager technologies a simple guarantee that if they don’t see a yield performance increase enough to cover the cost of those technologies, Verdesian will cover the cost.
 

Verdesian’s growing portfolio includes over 300 patent proprietary technologies developed in partnership with leading global research institutions and universities, including the United States Department of Agriculture, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California Riverside, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.