The Missing “R”: Leveraging soil DNA for more efficient NPK management

August 27th, 2025

10 am (EST)

1 Hour

There are fields that look alike in every physical and chemical respect, but, under the hood, their capacity to convert and deliver plant-available nutrients differs enormously.

Right source, right rate, right time, right place... what's missing? What mediates the plant-availability of nutrients? … Right cyclers!

Solubilization, mineralization, immobilization—such dynamics have been tough to manage because agriculture could only measure the nutrients, not these highways of transformation from one nutrient pool to another.

Join Mark Kinsey, Head of Sales at Biome Makers and technical salesman Scott McElveen as we shed light on this formerly opaque dimension of crop nutrition.

Who Should Attend?

Farmers, agronomists, crop consultants, environmentalists and all who have a vested interest in crop nutrition, fertilizer efficiency, and the fate of NPK inputs.

Scott David McElveen

Business Development Manager,
Biome Makers

Mark Kinsley

Sales Director,
Biome Makers

How living organisms mediate nutrient availability

From mineralization to immobilization, solubilization to competition, microbes are essential mediators of the transformation of nutrients from one form to another.

The flip side of the coin to nutrient testing

Soil fertility is not simply a snapshot of available nutrients; the pool of soluble, plant-available nutrients is in constant flux. Learn how to assess nutrient supply lines and bottlenecks.

How nutrient cycler data informs fertility management

You’ll learn a straightforward decision-making framework for adapting fertilizer source, application strategy, and NUE technologies based on nutrient cycling pathways.

How microbes mediate plant-availability of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium

How to identify both scenarios of likely oversupply and bottlenecks using soil DNA testing

How BeCrop® metrics accessibly characterize nutrient cycle health from a crop performance perspective

How to leverage these metrics into agronomic decisions and greater nutrient uptake and use efficiency

Why Attend?

If you have been long in agriculture, you know there is more to the puzzle of crop nutrition than direct soil nutrient analysis can show. Wholistic nutrient stewardship depends crucially on nutrient cyclers.

Join us not simply to understand this hitherto invisible dimension of nutrient management, but to learn how you can start measuring and managing it intelligently this fall.