The Bottom Line Podcast | Nitrate Assimilation

Episode 7: Nitrate Assimilation

In this episode of The Bottom Line, we highlight some key takeaways focusing on Nitrate Assimilation. With a focus on profitability and growing more with less, here are some of the highlights that can benefit your business.

Key Takeaways

• Nitrogen only drives yield when plants can assimilate it, making in-plant conversion the true performance bottleneck.
• Sulfur, calcium, and potassium work together to activate enzymes, build proteins, and move nitrogen to where yield is formed.
• Applying more nitrogen doesn’t guarantee results if supporting nutrients are missing, leading to inefficiency and loss.
• Polysulphate® delivers balanced, sulfate-based multinutrition that supports steady nitrate assimilation throughout the season.
• Improving nitrogen efficiency helps growers protect ROI, reduce environmental risk, and capture more yield from every pound of nitrogen applied.

So what is the bottom line? Nitrogen only pays when it’s assimilated, and balanced nutrition—especially sulfur, calcium, and potassium delivered through Polysulphate®—turns fertilizer investment into real yield and efficiency.

The Bottom Line, with Britt Murray, Marketing Manager, is ICL’s video podcast series delivering quick, expert-driven crop nutrition insights—in ten minutes or less. Each episode features one topic, and one goal: to end up where it matters most, the bottom line.  Listen to more episodes!