The inventor, Marcus Dennis, said getting this point has taken several years.
"To get it from an idea into full production has taken seven years, and it has been very humbling to see the results it's having, and of course, it's all aimed at helping growers do better," Dennis said.
Dennis told Local4 News he's gotten a lot of positive feedback.
"We're hearing a lot of good things, the key is when they start normally they'll start with one field one pivot or one 80°, and the way it's been going is then the next year, they want to put it on everything," Dennis said.
The Nitro-Mag plant's manager, Brian Lavicky, is a farmer himself, and he uses the fertilizer on his crops.
"I started using this product two years ago on my own farm, um, plant health has increased tremendously," Lavicky said. "I question whether I need to run fungicide or not when I run this product. They stay green at the end of the season, yields are right there, I'm growing 240 corn on 0.7 pounds of nitrogen."
The location for this plant on Old Potash Highway was very intentional for GMCO, as they will use the Cathcart rails to bring in the raw ingredients for Nitro-Mag to the factory.
