In fact, beginning in April, the CFIA is scrapping many of its regulations governing the marketing of soil amendments and crop aids.
It will no longer require proof that they work as advertised, so it will be "buyer beware". Customers will still be able to launch their own lawsuits if products fail to deliver on claims, but that will require expensive professional consulting and legal services.
Agro-Mos, Soil-Set,
Crop-Set and Grain-Set are now registered as micronutrient fertilizers.
Alltech’s products are
yeasts it makes in Kentucky where it has its head office for a global business
making and marketing feed additives.
On its website, Alltech says Agro-Mos provides
"essential nutrients that can aid with the defense against environmental
stresses and (promote) metabolic processes" and says it be applied at the
same time as fungicides and insecticides are sprayed on crops.
Soil-Set provides
"essential plant nutrients, specific bacterial metabolites and natural
enzymatic compounds" and promotes decomposition of crop residues and other
organic matter to improve soil structure.
Grain-Set is a foliar
application of micronutrients "complexed by amino acids and plant extracts
that act as a powerful surfactant." The short-chain amino acids found in
Grain-Set allow "immediate product absorption in plants," the company
said.
Crop-Set "aids in
stressful situations by providing nutrients essential to growth."
"While each product
has a different source of micronutrients, all of the products are used to treat
micronutrient deficiencies," the company said in its announcement.
"Successful agronomic
practices are now a balancing act between meeting the consumer demand for fewer
chemicals and trying weather conditions, all while attempting to increase
yields with less land," Alltech Crop Science CEO Geoff Frank said in
Tuesday's release. "It all starts in the fields and field health."
Alltech's Canadian head
office is at Guelph. It has a livestock mineral processing plant at Alexandria,
Ont.
