You’re taking the right steps toward reducing risk for your supply chain and reputation by improving America’s water and air quality. You’ve set goals to source more sustainably produced crops, and you’re letting your suppliers know what you expect from them. There’s a hitch in the next phase of the plan, though: it’s hard to claim you’re making progress toward those goals when your suppliers don’t know what tools to recommend to farmers or the best way to measure and report improvements in nutrient use efficiency.

NutrientStar solves this problem. When you tell suppliers to use fertilizer more efficiently, you can recommend they use NutrientStar-reviewed tools – not only to guide farmers’ fertilizer use and so ensure a reliable supply of more sustainably grown crops, but also to provide the proof you need that you’re achieving corporate sustainability goals.

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With so many existing and emerging tools and products available to help farmers improve fertilizer efficiency, save money, improve soil health and increase yields, farmers and their crop advisers don’t know which tools to trust. As the market for nutrient management tools continues to grow, you need a new way to differentiate yourself.

If your tool is designed to boost nutrient use efficiency, submit it to NutrientStar for assessment. NutrientStar review and sharing of performance data assures your potential customers (and competitors) that your tool works as advertised. You’ll position yourself as a leader in the market as more and more farmers begin to use your tool and realize its benefits.

Submitting your tool starts the review process, which can be collaborative and iterative: the NutrientStar team will work with you throughout the process and suggest ways to obtain additional data needed to complete the evaluation. You can submit a tool at any point in its development, and before or after you have published data from your own product testing. When you engage us earlier in development, our review panel can give you valuable feedback for increasing your tool’s effectiveness going forward.

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NutrientStar standards (PDF)
NutrientStar assessment form (PDF)

Farmers come to you for the latest and most reliable information about nutrient management. It’s an important role, and NutrientStar is here to help you do your job even better. How? We provide you with valuable information on what is known about the performance of a nutrient management tool or product, so you can confidently recommend tools to your customers.

NutrientStar does the research for you. The experts on our independent review panel examine how well each tool performs in production scale field trials by measuring nutrient use efficiency before and after the tool is implemented. We have developed replicated strip trial protocol that closely mirrors established university guidelines, and we examine data in the context of weather conditions for that season. Plus, we assess tools based on geographic region, so you’ll know which tools perform the best in your area, for your customers.

They’ll profit with highly effective tools. You’ll profit by growing your position as a trusted adviser.

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NutrientStar standards (PDF)
Tool Finder
NutrientStar assessment form (PDF)

Fertilizer is so important, but it’s easy to overdo it. Or underdo it. Or lose it. If you’re like the average grain farmer, half your input costs go toward fertilizer, yet nearly half your fertilizer is lost to the water or air before your plants can use it.

NutrientStar exists to help you find the right nutrient management tool or product for your farm, the one that will help you apply fertilizer in the most efficient way possible to maximize its results and lower your input costs, all while protecting the water, air and soil that together make up the land you call home.

NutrientStar does the trial and error for you. We use a science-based, proven process to measure just how well nutrient management tools do their jobs and determine the circumstances where they perform best. When you see the results for a tool or product on the NutrientStar website, you’ll know what benefits that tool or product can potentially deliver.

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Tool Finder