Becker Underwood announces a significant expansion in the production capacity of its St. Joseph, MO, facility to meet the increasing demand for inoculants for soybeans and other plants grown in North America.
According to Chris Feiden, manager of the St. Joseph plant, Becker Underwood is currently installing new state-of-the-art fermentation units. The company offers VAULT brand soybean innoculants.
“This is a very aggressive project that will nearly triple our production capacity for the 2009 growing season compared to 2008,” Feiden points out. “The expansion is taking place now. We’re targeting Jan. 1, 2009, as our completion date, which will ensure that we’re up and running to produce inoculants for the 2009 growing season.”
“While many input costs in agriculture are going through the roof, more growers across the U.S. and Canada have found inoculants to be a low-cost input that offers an outstanding return on investment,” says Paul Holliday, business unit head – Inoculants. “This strong ROI (return on investment), combined with the freshness guarantee of our VAULT brand soybean inoculants, helped us to a record year in 2008. We’re projecting even greater demand for 2009. The expansion that we’re undertaking will help make sure that we’re in position to meet the needs of the marketplace.”
The other crops are peanuts, peas, and lentils.
