How Single-Compound Nutrition Can Provide Growers with Much Needed Predictability
Farmers are dealing with huge levels of ambiguity this year. Recent data shows they are facing simultaneous climate, financial, market, and policy uncertainty. In the UK alone, over 80% are worried about climate impacts, and globally, around half report worsening financial conditions. And a recent study by the European Investment Bank puts agriculture losses from climate change at more than $28 billion a year due to adverse weather, including droughts.
In the UK specifically, profitability pressures remain acute. Nearly one-third of farms reported losses in
2023-24, with rising costs and policy uncertainty undermining confidence and investment. Meanwhile, at an EU-level, research continues to highlight high-income volatility driven by energy, fertilizer, and feed price surges. This is reinforcing the sector’s reliance on regulatory support mechanisms, and exposing farmers to ongoing market uncertainty. Input costs continue to be a major concern for growers with the World Bank reporting fertilizer cost rises of 18% in 2025, put down to trade barriers, gaps in production, and high demands.
In this climate, farmers need to find areas that they can control and solutions that will work reliably for them. Single-compound nutrition can play a key role in realizing this.
The Role of Single-Compound Nutrition
A big source of unpredictability for farmers is soil health and the resulting inconsistencies in output. The most recent Europe’s Environment 2025 report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) indicates that 60-70% of EU soil is degraded. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has reported that, in regions with “significant human-induced land degradation,” crop productivity has decreased by at least 10%. This means that farmers need reliable products that directly address soil health and improve the productivity of their fields.
Single-compound nutrition offers a new approach to crop management that leverages precision biotechnologies. Specifically, directing nutrition to the plant’s system to activate the root zone of a crop. This targeted approach makes results both predictable and replicable and sparks a chain reaction that makes the whole ecosystem stronger.
Farmers also need solutions that have longevity and can be scaled – they cannot afford to chop and change inputs and still survive as a business. And healthy soils aren’t built with quick fixes anyway. Single-compound nutrition is like “salt” in terms of form stability. It offers growers greater reliability at scale, and across crops, climates and geographies by feeding the whole ecosystem – not just the crops – restoring microbial life and improving structures.
Single-compound formulas and predictability
When it comes to predictability, inputs built using single-compound molecules are key. These formulas are specifically engineered to stay stable, last longer, and perform consistently under changing conditions. They are molecularly defined compounds that stay in the soil, resist leaching, and feed crops at the root zone over time. And because of the single-compound composition and the absence of live cultures or unstable blends, every batch is the same and gives predictable results.
By building a molecular-level understanding of plant and wider soil nutrition, and using inputs based on this precision, growers will consistently boost yields year-after-year with the same inputs. It all comes down to promoting soil-microbe interactions through longer root hairs, creating habitats for these microbes, and increasing soil health as a result.
A Focus on Arginine
Research conducted over the last decade and recently proven in the field through over 60 independent trials across Europe, South America, and North America, has changed how we understand plant nutrition. While plants can absorb both inorganic and organic nitrogen, science shows plants naturally recognize and absorb arginine intact – nature’s most nitrogen-rich amino acid. This research has shown that plants prefer arginine over nitrate and other types of amino acids found in the ground.
Plants have specific routes they use to take in this type of organic nitrogen, and giving plants this natural form of nitrogen helps them absorb nutrients faster and more efficiently. Arginine promotes the growth of root hairs, increasing mycorrhiza – soil-microbe interaction – in the roots zone, making the roots stronger, plants more resilient, and healthier soils over time. When combined with phosphate, it breaks down slowly, providing a steady supply of nutrients with no spikes, creating an infallible solution.
This isn’t about another input for farmers to use on their fields and hope for the best. It’s about a high-purity, single-compound formula engineered for a specific role – to activate the root zone and keep nutrients exactly where crops need them.
To provide examples of specific results, single-compound nutrition using an arginine-phosphate complex increased the grain yield of corn in trials by 4.9% and the protein content by 5.9%, with 20% less fertilizer used. For potato crops, the yield increase was 6.4%, and trials using soy crops resulted in a 6% increase in yield and a 4.5% increase in protein content.
A More Predictable Future
At a time when most technological solutions are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) to solve challenges related to our land, it’s critical not to overlook the power of working with nature’s systems.
Designed and used correctly, single-compound nutrition that utilizes the predictability of the formula and leverages the power of arginine-phosphate will create stronger plants with larger and deeper root surface areas that take up more water and nutrients from the soil. Soil life in general will improve, with these systems enhancing the interaction between plants and microbes to promote higher soil quality and fertility. And they can reduce the dependency on conventional fertilizers, minimizing nitrogen leaching without compromising yields.
This is something physical farmers can do – working with nature’s systems to actually improve the soil in the ground. The right single-compound nutrition will enable farmers to accurately predict yield improvements and bring some much-needed certainty at a very challenging time.
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