Source: Willie Vogt, FARM PROGRESS, 10/19/20


There’s no doubt that the biological part of the crop protection market is exploding. Major companies have made key acquisitions in the business, and many startups are at work with a wide range of products that perform a range of functions, from fungicides to nitrogen fixation. Often the source of those biological products is fungi or bacteria, but one company has turned to plants to help plants. Botanical Solution Inc., a Davis, Calif., based startup, is using a unique approach to find crop protection solutions in other plants, and then mass-producing them for use in agriculture.

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