3Bar Biologics has partnered with start - up Pivot Bio to develop PROVEN , a low - cost nitrogen - producing microbial product which , if used on 35 percent of crop farms , will eliminate 20,000 mt of N20 emissions annually . CEO Bruce Caldwell , formerly of Procter & Gamble and Scott ’s Miracle - Gro , said product , which fixes nitrogen from the air and secretes it into a crop ’s buffer zone , allows farmers to grow their own microbes on farms and store them for up to three weeks . In addition , trials demonstrated PROVEN ##50 $ 5 per acre for a yield increase of seven to eight bushels per acre .
3Bar Biologics has partnered with start-up Pivot Bio to develop PROVEN, a low-cost nitrogen-producing microbial product which, if used on 35% of US farms, could eliminate 20,000 mt of N20 emissions annually. CEO Bruce Caldwell, formerly of Procter & Gamble and Scott’s Miracle-Gro, said PROVEN, which fixes nitrogen from the air and secretes it into a crop’s root zone, allows farmers to grow their own microbes on site and store them for up to three weeks. In addition, trials demonstrated PROVEN costs $5 per acre for a yield increase of seven to eight bushels per acre.