The Fries family, owners of Summit View Ag in Norwalk, Wisconsin, have partnered with Meristem Crop Performance to offer farmers in the state a wider range of crop inputs. Meristem is a company that sources, formulates, licenses, and delivers high-quality crop inputs to farmers at a price point that empowers them to gain real productivity by increasing yields and lowering their per unit production cost.
The Fries family are known in Wisconsin for providing a variety of services that help farmers win more consistently, season after season. They are excited to be able to come alongside Meristem to help them serve Wisconsin farmers and also gain from their field experience as they add new products.
Summit View Ag will now offer the Meristem product portfolio, which includes RACEREADY™ seed treatments, HOPPER THROTTLE™ planter box treatments, REVLINE™ biologicals and plant growth regulators, TRUTRACK™ drift control, AQUADRAFT™ water conditioners and surfactants, UPSHIFT starter fertilizers, and HOMESTRETCH™ micronutrients and foliar nutritionals. Of special interest is EXCAVATOR™, powered by MICROBILIZE™, a new biological designed to break down tough crop residue and release nutrients faster.
Nick Fries, who operates Summit View Ag with his parents Doug and Mary, says they farm about 1,500 acres of their own and test all the products on their own fields before they offer them to others. His recent experience with several Meristem products, especially Homestretch® Harvestshield™, brought him success that he wanted to share with other farmers.
“We first tried HARVESTSHIELD on our own farm when we had stressed soybeans from a neighbor’s dicamba application,” says Fries. “We had crinkled beans and it was at a time when they were just beginning to flower --HARVESTSHIELD sure changed things. From herbicide damage like that, you would expect a yield loss, but they snapped back, and we ended up getting well above our average for that field.”
Fries says they are now telling their customers to put HARVESTSHIELD in with their second herbicide pass. “We often have in-season weed issues in our area and run the risk of flower drops – you are negating that flower drop with the HARVESTSHIELD and it helps avoid that yield loss. We’ve seen a yield benefit anywhere from 5 to 10 bushel per acre on beans.”
Meristem Crop Performance is one of the fastest-growing crop input companies in America. They are building a highly efficient channel to bring crop inputs to market, reducing waste and accelerating access to farm-ready innovations, such as their patented BioCapsule Technology™ and Microbilize Technology™ biological delivery systems.
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Categories: Wisconsin, Crops