Research, who needs it? You do! We all do.
Agriculture is a whirlwind of change these days. New genetics, new crop protection technologies, new equipment, new tillage, new rotations, and so on. Is there room for new ideas in crop nutrition? Of course, but only if they are proven. And the way of proof is research followed by experience. Growers are too big and too busy to be primary researchers. So a company must shoulder the research responsibility itself. And no one has bigger shoulders than Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers and its central proving ground: the North Central Research Station.
The North Central Research Station was started in 1994 and has grown to 200 acres, making it the largest facility in the United States dedicated exclusively to the study of crop nutrition. With a full-time research staff of five, research is annually conducted on some ten field crops, more than a dozen different vegetable and horticultural crops as well as turf. This amounts to well over a thousand individual plots that are monitored and harvested for yield comparisons. Many variables such as tillage, application timing and placement, and quality effects are tested. This gives Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers the unique ability to answer questions from the field, test new products and ideas, and develop a solid data base to back recommendations. In addition to its research function, the North Central Research Station is also used as a training facility for sales personnel and as a field day host for customers and growers from across the country, as well as internationally. So when Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers says “Research proven”, we mean it!
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Jerry L. Wilhm, Ph.D.
Research Manager
