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Why Use MicroEssentials

Everybody knows plants need nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and zinc to reach their full potential. But until now it’s been nearly impossible to apply all four evenly across a field. Blended fertilizer, no matter how well applied, can separate, making some nutrients more readily available for one plant and less for another.

MicroEssentials advanced crop nutrition technology from Mosaic solves this problem with a patented process that packs all four essential nutrients into a single granule that, when applied correctly, provides even, balanced nutrition across the field.

Because of this, MicroEssentials products are superior to traditional blended fertilizers, providing more efficient, uniform distribution of nutrients in a ratio best suited to plant health and productivity.

Advantages of MicroEssentials:

• Improved phosphorus uptake—Key nutrient interaction between phosphorus and zinc helps plants take up more of the nutrients applied, and P uptake increases 10 to 30%.
  
  
• Balances soil pH—The pH of the MicroEssentials granule balances the soil pH around the granule to enhance P availability.
  
  
• Season-long sulfur availability—Only MicroEssentials delivers two forms of sulfur; sulfate (50%), which is immediately available to developing roots, and elemental sulfur (50%), which becomes available later in the growing season.
  
  
• Nitrogen kick-starts young plants—Plants also start out faster because MicroEssentials delivers nitrogen in the way young plants prefer, in the ammonium form.  
  
  
• Zinc is 10 to 45% more available—Because zinc is incorporated into every MicroEssentials SZ granule, it is uniformly distributed and readily available to each plant—roots come in contact with 12 times more zinc contact points than when applied in a typical blend.