One New Novel Fertilizer with Multiple Benefits from Two Innovative Manufacturers
Leaders in soil health team up to build a better solution for growers
Tiger HumiK 4% is a jointly-developed product with HGS BioScience and Tiger-Sul. It provides plant nutrient sulphur along with functional carbon (humic acids). The humates are sourced from the highest quality North American deposits of leonardite. Unlike other sources of functional carbon, leonardite produces a more bioactive form of humic acid due to the presence of more phenolic and carboxylic functional groups. The guaranteed analysis of Tiger HumiK is 85% Sulphur, 4% Humic Material, and 11% Bentonite. Application rates should follow agronomist suggestions based on crop requirements, soil, and plant tissue sample analyses.
Sulphur Bentonite Benefits
Sulphur is required for nitrogen fixation and enhances nitrogen use efficiency. Sulphur as a nutrient is essential for protein synthesis and improves availability of phosphorus and other select micronutrients.
The addition of bentonite clay to elemental sulphur increases water absorption of the pastille causing swelling and fracturing into smaller sulphur particles. Smaller sulphur particles provide greater surface area for soil bacteria to feed on the sulphur for conversion into plant available SO4.
Functional Carbon Benefits
The functional carbon included in Tiger HumiK 4% includes humic and fulvic acids. Humic acid improves soil health and structure and co-transports micronutrients into the plant. Fulvic acid chelates molecules and also transports micronutrients and carries bioactive molecules into the plant. The small molecular size of fulvic acid contributes to effective absorption by plant.
This combination delivers functional carbon technology which can improve soil health, enhance nutrient uptake, and minimize plant stress. The sulphur bentonite increases plant nutrient-use-efficiency.
Tiger-Sul’s experience in developing dry fertilizer products that are stable, durable, effective, and easy to apply are the characteristics that will bring added value to the innovative humic technology. Future joint endeavors will include soil health products with higher levels of dry humic acid which will provide additional soil health improvement, crop stress management and improved nutrient uptake to go along with much needed sulfur in the soil.
HGS Bioscience™ is a soil health innovation company perfecting the delivery of functional carbon to farmers’ fields. Its expanding Performance Granule™ portfolio allows growers to get more yield from each acre by improving soil health and unleashing the nutrient bank in the soil. With six North American manufacturing sites and the deepest, most versatile portfolio in the industry, HGS BioScience™ is shaping the future of soil and plant health in the U.S., Canada and around the world.
For more information HGS BioScience, please see www.hgsbioscience.com.
About Tiger-Sul Products®
Tiger-Sul Products is the global leader in sulphur bentonite, sulphur bentonite micronutrients technology, and other well-established crop performance products. For more than 50 years, Tiger-Sul Products innovations have been the standard used by the agriculture industry to improve global crop production and fulfill the fertilizer requirements of agricultural customers around the world.
For more information about Tiger-Sul Products LLC, visit www.tigersul.com.