GarrCo Products’ DIGEST™ Offers Biological Management Tool for Breakdown of Crop Residue

Source: GarrCo Products Inc.

GarrCo Products introduces DIGEST™, a biological crop residue management technology with 29 highly concentrated strains of beneficial microorganisms that are proven to significantly break down tough crop residue that can cause problems when planting and cultivating, and can even be damaging to expensive tractor tires. The faster stubble and crop residues breakdown, the less remaining in the spring that will tie up nutrients, inhibit germination and harbor insects and plant diseases. The crop residue problem is worse today because of the increased use of fungicides and insect traits that increase stalk strength and slow decomposition. Digest™ breaks down crop residues that cause problems and turns them into an asset by releasing tied up nutrients.

Today, most crop residue practices have significant environmental issues or are just nutritional supplements designed to feed existing microorganism populations. It can take a long time to build up the right type of microbial populations because they often start at very low levels on the crop residue. GarrCo’s biological crop residue digester, Digest™, gives a very high concentration of the right type of microorganisms to digest tough crop residues like lignin and cellulose. Digest™ also has microbes selected to produce a long-term source of food for the microbes that digest the crop residues. The continual release of nutrients from the breakdown of crop residues can increase crop yields above a single or split fertilizer approach with lower total N applied. The microbes are selected to digest dead plant material, so they can be applied pre- or post-harvest. Digest™ also reduces volunteer corn.