A recent paper explores the first commercially available microbial nitrogen product to replace and reduce the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer in agriculture.

Keira Havens, sustainability project manager with Pivot Bio, is the corresponding author of the paper.

“This paper tells the story of how we found the microbe, how we adapted it to be useful to farmers, how we developed a product that worked with the way growers are already growing corn, and then it talks about the results growers saw on their fields,” she says.

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