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Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Pivot Bio Completes State-of-the-Art Lab and Offices Pivot BioMarch 9, 2021 GMT BERKELEY, CA, March 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pivot Bio recently completed a major expansion of its Berkeley, Cal., lab and offices to support its accelerated growth plans, advance the company’s science, and deliver its nitrogen-producing microbial products to U.S. farmers faster. MAI Construction, based in San Jose, Cal., served as the general contractor to create this state-of-the art facility. ADVERTISEMENT “Wi...

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New Dietary Guidelines for Americans and 91% Want New Year NOW Friday Jan 1st, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. **Nutrition in America took a major step forward Monday with the publication of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025. Jointly published by the USDA and Health and Human Services, the guidelines provide science-based recommendations designed to foster healthy dietary patterns for Americans of all ages, from birth through older adults. This edition expands the guidance, for the first time including recommended he...

December 31, 2020 IARN — Pivot Bio introduced a nitrogen-producing microbe, called Pivot Bio PROVEN in 2019. The product, “sold extensively” in 2020, offers economic and environmental benefits. Pivot Bio PROVEN supplies cereal crops “a constant source of nitrogen throughout most of the growing season,” says Dan Poston, director of agronomy with Pivot Bio. “It’s a liquid formulated microbe that is applied in-furrow,” Poston says. “When the seed emerges and sprouts, that microbe can colonize and live on the corn root. The roots exude multiple compounds, many of which are ca...

Today, let’s look at an alternative to carpet-bombing Midwestern corn fields with around 150 pounds per acre of nitrogen fertilizer, in hopes that the plants will take up about half of that, en route to a big corn yield.  Leaving aside the debate over what happens to runoff nitrogen as it enters the rivers of America — there’s the question of cost, and could we do better on cost? After all, the cost of nitrogen can head up to nearly 40 cents per pound, and the resulting $60 an acre cost for fertilizer inputs is a target that farmers and technologists look at with longing.