Farm4Profit Podcast
A New Way to Fight Corn Rootworm : The Planter Box Product Turning Heads
25 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What is Grow Pack CT and how does it differ from traditional treatments?
But this one is specifically for corn only.
Okay.
Okay. So what is GrowPak AI? Okay. So GrowPak AI is a biological planter box seed treatment. What it has is a biological package built to support – nutrient uptake, and plant development. After that, we added some biostimulants to it to support that translocation of nutrients within plants, and then we have a nutrient package, and it's in a talc and clay base as a seed lubricant.
Yep, and so I replaced my talc graphite with it, and I ordered a pallet from Ben last year and ran it on my corn and beans, and just for cost comparison, it's It's pretty dang cheap. It is. And you've got to have some sort of seed lubricant, right? So you might as well have some good stuff in there with it. So that's GrowPak AI. Yep. But what makes GrowPak CT just for corn?
Has it still got the same goodies as GrowPak AI?
So pretty much, yes. So, Corey, what we did with this one is in GrowPak AI, we have a Bradyrhizobium japonica, which is a soybean inoculant. It doesn't do anything for you in corn, even though we still use it in corn with GrowPak AI, but it helps put nodules on soybeans. So we dropped that one out of this package. We added another trichoderma to help implant natural defenses for it to.
help ward off some of those early season seedling diseases. And then what we did is we added two other biologicals. One is going to help that nutrient solubilization right around that seedling. And then the other one is to help farmers that fight corn rootworm. Where I live and where Pat lives, if you look on the counties that are in red for rootworm pressures... We live in the red.
Don't we, Pat? Yes, we do. So this is a plant's natural – it's a biological that puts a natural defense barrier up and repels corn rootworm from the seeds.
So when I think of corn rootworm and especially treating it at the seed level, it's normally a liquid or a dry that's going over the top. And it's normally an insecticide. Right.
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Chapter 3: How does Grow Pack CT support corn plant development?
It's a first for me. And if I'm here, and I talk to a lot of people, it's got to be the first time people are hearing it here. I think this is the first one I've seen packaged correctly.
Okay.
This is going to be the first one that's combined with other biologicals that really, truly complement it to take it to the next level, a crop to the next level.
Yep. Okay. Well, you heard it here first. Go to AgExplorer.com. Reach out to us. Reach out to your AgExplorer salesperson and try some. That's what I can tell. Do a trial on your farm. It would be great. Thanks. Thanks, Corey. Yep. Thanks, Corey.
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