The senior vice president of strategy and logistics with GROWMARK says the cooperative’s planned state-of-the-art biological crop input manufacturing facility is aimed at meeting the demands of one of the fastest-growing sectors in the industry.
Rod Wells says agricultural biologicals are the next step in crop production and nutrition.
“Our facility will allow those companies that are manufacturing these bugs, if you will, to go to production scale.” He says, “They’re broadly categorized into three big classes. Those are biopesticides, or biocontrols, biostimulants, and then there are biofertilizers.”
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“The products that we have taken to market, we’re seeing really good results to the point where we’ve got a couple of corn hybrids this year that will be sold in the bulk boxes with a biological already part of that package,” he says.
Wells says the plant, which is expected to be operational in 2027, will also be capable of manufacturing animal biological and waste treatment products.
The facility will be located at GROWMARK’s AgraForm location near St. Louis, which currently produces and packages insecticides, fungicides, and biological products.
