You can always bank on Nodulaid^® Inoculant and Nodulator^® Inoculant Granules from BASF for a big return on a small investment. As well as boosting the yields of whichever grain legume crop you’re growing – including chickpeas, faba beans, field peas, lentils and lupins – they will fix residual nitrogen in the soil to feed following cereal crops.

That ‘bank’ of N in the soil can save you hundreds of dollars a hectare in urea or other nitrogen fertilisers. The Australian Inoculants Research Group (AIRG) estimates using inoculants saves Australian agriculture as a whole about $4 million a year. And that’s without every pulse grower doing it!

If you’re happy to apply a peat inoculant, Nodulaid stands out as ‘the original and the best’. It’s been around since 1953 – much longer than any of the alternatives – and the processes BASF uses to manufacture it and test its levels of active rhizobia have been regularly updated to ensure it remains the pacesetter.

In contrast to all the rival granular inoculants that are made overseas, Nodulator is now also made at the newly upgraded BASF BioTech Solutions facility on the NSW Central Coast. It is the first and only granular inoculant on the market that offers both the extra convenience and accuracy of granules and the added quality assurance of an AIRG Green Tick, showing that it has been independently tested and approved for use in Australian conditions.

That means both BASF brands now carry the Green Tick, so you can use them with extra confidence that they will repay your investment many times over.

You can find out more about both Nodulaid and Nodulator at crop-solutions.basf.com.au or by downloading a product guide here.