UK-based crop production company Frontier has announced an investment in CCm Technologies, an environmental technology company that has engineered a process to capture CO2 from the atmosphere with recycled nutrients from agricultural waste, resulting in an “organo-mineral fertilizer.”
The flagship product is CCm Growth®, which contains nitrogen, phosphate, and potash but also holds fiber to deliver organic matter and carbon back to the soil to improve soil health and sustainability. An analysis by The Carbon Trust showed the footprint of the product is not only low, but negative, as it takes carbon out of the atmosphere and adds it to the soil.
Frontier will have an exclusive distribution agreement for CCm Growth across England, Scotland, and Wales. The product has been in collaborative testing from Frontier and CCm Technologies since 2021 and has demonstrated positive results for both harvests in 2022 and 2023, Frontier reported.
“There’s nothing like this product on the market today, which is why we’re excited to see how it performed in comparison to standard nitrogen and NPK fertilizers,” said Edward Downing, Frontier National Crop Nutrition Technical Manager.