Harvesting Nature's Science™
By Jonathan Plehn
President,
Huma®, Inc.
I am extremely proud to officially unveil our company’s new branding and name. We are now Huma®– a 50-year-old legacy ready to be reintroduced to the world! It is a strategic decision to shorten our name from Bio Huma Netics® (BHN) to Huma® and we are confident that this progressive move is in our company and our customers’ best interests. [Read more…]
By Larry Cooper, MA, Cert/KM
Director, Sustainability and Knowledge Management
Bio Huma Netics, Inc.
Celebrating Earth Day every April 22 is a great time to pause and reflect: How are we, today, treating the environment and the plants, animals, and people who live in it? What have we accomplished in the past year that makes our planet a better, more sustainable place to live and raise our families? What are our goals for future improvement?
In this blog, I provide a little historical perspective. How did Earth Day come to be? Why did it come about in 1970? What was life on the planet like before we started celebrating Earth Day? [Read more…]
By Fred Nichols
Chief Marketing Officer,
Bio Huma Netics, Inc.
Curly fries, waffle fries, spicy fries or… regen fries? Soon, these may all be choices in the frozen foods aisle, at least if McCain Foods has a say in it. And as the world leader in prepared potato products, purchasing 6.8 million tons of spuds annually, McCain carries a strong voice. Their commitment to sustainability includes a pledge to have regen ag practices used on all their potato acres by 2030. The company has entered the Metaverse and designed this virtual game where players grow their own potatoes and learn about regen practices. Thus far, a staggering 2.8 billion visitors—that’s about one-third of the world’s population—have experienced “Farms of the Future.” All-natural, humic-based crop nutrients may soon become a key ingredient in the recipe for regen fries. [Read more…]
Bio Huma Netics, Inc. (BHN) hosted its annual staff meeting on December 14-15, 2022, at its headquarters in Gilbert, Arizona. BHN staff from New Mexico, Mexico, and Brazil also flew in to attend the two-day event.
The company planned the all-staff gathering to recognize employees’ contributions and to celebrate significant milestones achieved in 2022—including the acquisition of an additional 40,000-square-foot building in Tempe, AZ, to facilitate further expansion and growth. [Read more…]
By Lyndon Smith
President and CEO,
Bio Huma Netics, Inc.
The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) celebrated its 30th anniversary at the 2022 ARA Conference and Expo last week. It made me reflect on our long-standing ties with ARA, and the opportunities it provides us to assist agricultural retailers (ag retailers) with their challenges.
Our association with ARA goes back to the 90s, and we have been a supporting member company since then. Almost five years ago ARA offered us a position on its Board of Directors, which is made up mostly of ag retailers, to represent the ag retail suppliers group. It has been an honor to be a part of the Board of Directors for ARA and to serve on many of their sub-committees. This service gives us ample opportunity to understand and lend a voice to help resolve the numerous challenges faced by ag retailers across the United States. Also, it bodes well for Bio Huma Netics, Inc. (BHN) to be recognized in the premier ag retail industry organization without being a part of that industry in the traditional sense, but primarily as a global supplier of nutrients and biostimulants into distribution and directly to independent ag retailers to meet their growers’ needs. [Read more…]
By Michael Gardner
Senior Director Turf and NW Sales,
Bio Huma Netics, Inc.
As I begin to write, I’m reminded of an excerpt from Ode to the West Wind — “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” Well, spring is certainly not far behind, especially for those of us working in the agriculture sector.
Winter can be a tricky time for growers, as many of them face numerous challenges to prep their soil for the next season. Healthy soil is the foundation of growing healthy crops, and this fact stands tall irrespective of the season or time of the year. When you have healthy soil, any crop you grow in it will look good, taste better, and be of higher quality. If your soil is weak and lacks nutrients, then external factors such as climate, location, etc. hold more power over the crop. [Read more…]
En una investigación realizada en la Universidad de Idaho, se demostró que Huma Gro® X-Tend® B, desarrollado por Tecnología Micro Carbono® (MCT), mejora el rendimiento de la cebada. El aumento en la producción generó una ganancia neta mayor por acre con un rendimiento de la inversión (ROI) de 38:1.
Dirigida por el Dr. Jared Spackman, el objetivo de esta investigación era determinar el efecto de añadir Huma Gro® X-Tend® B a aplicaciones divididas en las distintas cantidades de fertilizante con nitrógeno. Se cultivó cebada (variedad: ABI Voyager) en el centro de investigación de la Universidad de Idaho en Aberdeen, Idaho. La siembra se realizó el 20 de abril y se cosechó el 20 de agosto. [Read more…]
By Lyndon Smith
President and CEO,
Bio Huma Netics, Inc.
We attended the Humic Products Trade Association (HPTA) annual meeting this past month in Park City, Utah. It’s always a pleasure to get together with industry peers and talk about issues pertaining to HPTA as well as discussing the latest and the greatest research and product developments taking place in the biostimulant movement throughout the world!
Our alliance with HPTA is a long and strong one. From being a participant (with Mesa Verde) since its inception in 2010 and serving as a member of the Board of Directors—it’s been fun to see us come together in unity and how we’ve accomplished many monumental and exciting milestones together. [Read more…]
Every year, October 13 is marked as Global Fertilizer Day to highlight the significance and acknowledge the contribution of the fertilizer industry in feeding the world’s growing populations.
This annual international awareness campaign is supported by fertilizer associations and companies across the world with the shared purpose of highlighting the social, economic, and environmental impact of fertilizers. Creating awareness will promote better farming practices and promote the proper use of fertilizers in the farming community.
Let’s celebrate this day by learning the following fertilizer facts: [Read more…]
Por el Dr. Richard Lamar
Director Sénior de investigación de sustancias húmicas
Bio Huma Netics, Inc.
Estamos acostumbrados a ver las sustancias húmicas (húmicas y fúlvicas) en forma seca o de gránulos y solemos pensar en los ácidos como líquidos. Entonces, ¿por qué las sustancias húmicas y fúlvicas se denominan ácidos?
Todas las sustancias, sólidas y líquidas, tienen una composición química. Un ácido es una sustancia química que puede donar un protón (H+) a una molécula de agua (H2O, lo que formaría H3O+) o a otra sustancia química como el amoníaco (NH3, lo que formaría NH4+). [Read more…]