Helping Growers Sustain the Soil

Environmental stewardship is the hallmark of successful farming in America. By working to keep water, air and soil healthy, farmers are preserving these important resources for the next generation of growers. From preventing soil erosion to using less energy, today’s growers help to protect the environment in many important ways.

Maintaining soil fertility is important not only for today’s agriculture needs, but for tomorrow’s as well. Crops grown in soil that lacks nutrients struggle to withstand adverse weather and fight disease and other stress conditions like drought — often resulting in lower yields. Plants without proper nutrition also fail to develop adequate root systems, which can cause increased soil erosion over time. In fact, poor soil fertility was a major cause of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.¹

Soil only gives plants access to nutrients; soils don’t create the nutrients crops need. Farmers add nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to the soil each growing season to replace the nutrients taken up by the prior year’s crops.

Dow AgroSciences helps growers manage their soil fertility needs with N-Serve^® nitrogen stabilizer, a product that helps preserve nitrogen in the soil.

N-Serve maintains the nitrogen fertilizer that growers apply to their fields in a more stable form. Stabilized nitrogen is easier for crops to access for growth.

By keeping nitrogen fertilizer where plants can use it, N-Serve not only improves soil fertility, but also helps boost crop yields. Crops that have easy access to adequate supplies of nitrogen can grow stronger, faster and healthier to meet the world’s demand for food, fiber and fuel.

To learn more about N-Serve, visit www.N-Serve.com.