For many growers, crop nutrition has advanced beyond the traditional NPK strategy of old.

ValleyAg Consulting Services owner Tracy Miller works with farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley to get the best results through the latest nutrition choices. 

Miller said some of the most promising crop nutrition includes micronutrients like boron, cobalt and molybdenum.

He’s also a big proponent of bio-stimulants, including from Redox Bio-Nutrients.

“They’re almost mainstream already,” he remarked. “There’s a lot of use of them, at least with the growers I work with. I think that there is a real role that they are going to continue to provide versus traditional inputs. We’re probably going to have less chemical controls going forward, and we’re going to have to have tools that can boost the plant’s metabolism and immune system. This will enable us to overcome some of the pest challenges we have right now, specifically disease issues.”