Simplot AS/AN ready for market
The J. R. Simplot Co. reports that its new FŪSN™ fertilizer is now commercially available to growers. The product has been on the drawing board for some time. The company says it fuses ammonium sulfate to create an ammonium nitrate-based fertilizer that is less detonable, more efficient and socially responsible.
“FŪSN revitalizes and makes safe a proven nutrient growers want and need,” said John Malinowski, vice president of business development and marketing for Simplot’s Agribusiness group. “The fusing of nitrate and sulfate suppresses the detonability of the nitrate while adding agronomic benefits such as optimizing plant uptake potential.”
Simplot’s FŪSN is a dry, granular homogenous fertilizer that delivers nitrate and ammonium nitrogen and sulfate sulfur to the plant. The fused sulfate-nitrate compound also helps decrease volatilization of surface-applied nitrogen.
Simplot collaborated with Honeywell on the new fertilizer, leveraging Honeywell’s Sulf-N26® fertilizer technology to develop the engineering and manufacturing for this new product at Simplot’s Lathrop, Calif. facility.
Simplot says FŪSN is now available in select areas in the Western United States.