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App calculates value of adding sulfur to crop nutrition program

A fertilizer company has upgraded an app farmers and retailers can use to calculate the value of incorporating sulfur into crop nutrition programs.

AdvanSix business director Mike Hamilton says their Return on Sulfur Investment software is based on peer-reviewed public data.

“You can select what region of the country (the person) is in, then look at things like what the price of ammonium sulfate (or) urea is.  And obviously what’s important to the grower is what current crop pricing is.  Then you can look at various levels of adding sulfur into that package.”

He tells Brownfield most users are involved in corn, soybean, wheat, and alfalfa production.

Hamilton says the importance of ammonium sulfate fertilizer should not be discounted.

“Even in the U.S. where growers tend to be pretty technically advanced, there’s still significant pockets of sulfur deficiencies out there.  So one of our goals with the app and the other programs we provide is to continue to try to educate people that leaving sulfur out of a nutritional package can be at the detriment to crop yields.”

The ROSI app was released in 2014, and an updated version can be downloaded from the APP store or Google Play.