Success is agriculture reinvented.
It’s progressive and forward-thinking.
It’s Hefty Naturals.
Productive farming and progressive thinking go hand-in-hand. Each Hefty Naturals Product is formulated to address the problems growers face on the farm every day in the pursuit of healthier crops and higher yields. That’s why year after year, we’re vetting new ideas to keep our product selection fresh, innovative, and profitable.
NATURALS BELONG IN YOUR
CROP STRATEGY
So much more than biologicals!
You’re not alone.
Products for everyone.
Hefty Naturals encompasses a portfolio of proven agronomic solutions. It’s more than biologicals and more than just soil additives. This complete product lineup provides naturally derived amino acids, growth hormones, organic acids, and biologicals when your crop craves them the most. Combine that with specially formulated water conditioning agents, and you’ve just created a complete application strategy designed to improve crop performance and build lasting soil health. It’s outside-of-the-box thinking for progressing our next decade of crop yield growth.
Each Hefty Naturals product is backed by a team of product experts, agronomists, researchers, and on-farm grower trials. For years, we’ve worked closely with multiple product formulation companies who help us bring quality options to market. We also conduct farm trials and communicate with trusted growers who test, observe, and document product performance in real situations so you have all the information you need to make a calculated investment.
Unlike many crop inputs that are intended to work for specific crops and those specific crops only, Naturals are designed to support overall soil health and plant physiology. Meaning it’s more than corn and soybeans. Every product supported by Hefty Naturals has a place in multiple crop systems. Whether you’re applying in-furrow or foliar, growing corn, sugar beets, or small grains, these products are natural to the plant, natural to the environment, and to your bottom line.
OUR PRODUCTS
THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF CROP PROTECTION.
26 proven microbials means 26 ways to increase yield, including improved nutrient uptake and faster emergence. Nutri-Cycle has proven to be a foundational product in the Hefty Naturals product line. This unique combination of microorganisms is created with 26 active, beneficial strains of bacteria and fungi. Nutri-Cycle’s combination is specifically designed to increase yield by improving nutrient uptake and promoting faster emergence.
IMPROVES CROP PERFORMANCE AND YIELD UNDER ALL TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS.
Heat Shield is designed to increase your crop’s tolerance to extreme field situations like salt, drought, cold and heat. The biggest impact will come from Heat Shield when it’s included with a seed treatment or applied in-furrow. This is because Heat Shield is a beneficial fungus that lives and works inside the plant to increase its ability to withstand difficult growing environments.
There are six strains of Trichoderma harzianum fungi that make up Heat Shield, giving it efficacy in a variety of extreme conditions. Heat Shield is a critical component of Hefty Complete Seed Treatments and has shown additional benefits when used with other biological products that promote plant health and increased nutrient efficiency.
THE BUILDING BLOCKS HEFTY COMPLETE SEED TREATMENT IN ONE SIMPLE APPLICATION.
Nutri-Shield contains two of the most foundational products in the Hefty Naturals portfolio: Nutri-Cycle and Heat Shield. If you’re using Hefty Complete, you’re already getting the benefits of these products on every acre! Nutri-Shield takes the same proven microbe package from Nutri-Cycle and Heat Shield and combines it with 100% organic talc to create an easy planter box additive. Nutri-Cycle is known for enhancing nutrient uptake and promoting faster emergence, and Heat Shield is designed for increasing your crop’s stress tolerance. Combining both of these products in Nutri-Shield provides many of the same great benefits of Hefty Complete Seed Treatment.
NO IN-FURROW? NO PROBLEM! AT PLANTING MICROS AND MICROBES PROVIDE NATURALS WITH THE ULTIMATE PACKAGE.
Maxx NS combines micros and microbes. A quart equivalent of a 9% Zinc, plus manganese and iron mixed with talc and graphite. Adding Nutri-Cycle and Heat Shield into the mix along with a carbon technology gives you the leading product for talc-applied products in the industry. No need for in-furrow systems – the Maxx NS product delivers these key ingredients right into the planter box for you to mix with your seed. Maxx NS ensures viability of biology by keeping the microbes away from the micros until you need the product.
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HEFTY COMPLETE SEED TREATMENT IN ONE SIMPLE APPLICATION BUILT FOR CEREAL GRAIN CROPS!
Cereal NS contains Nutri-Cycle and Heat Shield in talc form specifically designed for small grain crops. Its higher load of talc ensures proper coverage on small grain crops, and provides the same benefits as growers have come to love from Nutri-Shield. Combining Nutri-Cycle and Heat Shield on small grain crops gives growers the opportunity to see the benefits of biology on their crops, mixed right with the seed in an air drill or planter box.
ONE BOX. FIVE PRODUCTS. ONE COMPLETE SOLUTION.
Alpha Complete takes our leading products for in-furrow users and combines them into one 40-acre box. Led by Water-Rite and Bio-Prep to ensure your water is correct and your biology stays alive, it then adds Nutex EDA as a transporter technology, Boost 10 as an amino acid product, and Micro-Cycle as living biology to release fertility from the soil. This in-furrow offer takes key products you need and adds them to one 40-acre box that’s easy for you to implement on your farm.
A NITROGEN-FIXING SOYBEAN INOCULANT.
ROOTastic inoculant boosts your soybean yields by enhancing nitrogen uptake, even where soybeans are often planted. The active ingredient in ROOTastic is a naturally occurring bacterium that grows on plan roots, forming root nodules that help plants convert nitrogen from the air into forms the plant can use.
IN-FURROW SOIL AMENDMENT FOR NUTRIENT MINERALIZATION.
Specifically created to work in conjunction with Nutri-Cycle, the six unique components in Micro-Cycle compose a multi-species blend of bacteria in the spore form. Micro-Cycle mineralizes nutrients in the soil and increases the plant availability of sulfur, phosphorus, and silicon.
The phosphorus solubilizers are specific to targeting a broad pH spectrum. Potassium, silicon, manganese, and iron solubilizers release large amounts of these elements that are being stored in the soil. Plus, the sulfur cycle microbial booster turns elemental sulfur into sulfate for plant absorption.
BOOST 10™ WORKS IN THREE WAYS TO IMPROVE PLANT HEALTH AND BRIDGE THE CAP BETWEEN INORGANIC FERTILIZERS AND THE PROTEINS PLANTS CREATE.
Made of more than 30 organic and amino acids, Boost 10™ promotes photosynthesis, generates more plant energy, and increases the uptake and organic conversion of nutrients within the plant. Boost 10™ applications can also improve the plant’s metabolism, allowing it to better adapt to environmental stresses like heat and drought. The influence Boost 10™ has internally on your crop often results in larger leaf size, stronger stands, increased seedling vigor, and impressive root development.
THE NEXT GENERATION OF FERTILIZER CATALYST FOR ALL LIQUID FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS.
NuTex EDA™ is an essential chelated zinc product applied foliar or in-furrow that is designed to enhance both root growth and other functions of the plant. Since it increases the plant’s intake efficiency of N, P, K and other micronutrients, NuTex EDA™ is best used as a supplement for chosen fertility programs. It can also create better chlorophyll density, perform with low doses, and mixes well with all pH fertilizers.
AMPLIFY CROP YIELDS AND QUALIFY— FROM THE GROUND UP.
Reverb™ is a next-generation micronutrient-based fertilizer catalyst for soil-applied fertilizers and stalk decomposition. When applied with starter fertilizers and in-season nitrogen applications, Reverb™ enhances the uptake and utilization of applied nutrients. When applied in conjunction with liquid nitrogen, Reverb™ works synergistically with soil microbes to break down crop residue and debris, providing more soil nutrients for next year’s crop.
EXTRACATE™ WORKS WITH YOUR LIQUID STARTER FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS, OR BY ITSELF, TO HELP UNLOCK SOIL NUTRIENTS THAT WILL BENEFIT YOUR CROPS.
It works especially well in making calcium more available to plant roots by solubilizing soil calcium (CaCO3) and other nutrients tied up in the soil. ExtraCate™ is formulated with a naturally derived organic acid complex that provides a one-two punch to soil nutrition. ExtraCate™ supports the solubility, availability, and uptake of a broad range of nutrients across all types of soil. Formulated with a safe-to-use acidic pH solution, ExtraCate™ may help with tankmix compatibilities in some situations.
PATENTED LIQUID THAT HELPS DELIVER THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF PHOSPHORUS TO THE PLANT OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD.
NutriCharge® is a polymer technology that is mixed with in-furrow, side-dress, or Y-Drop applications. This proprietary technology has an affinity for calcium and magnesium in your soils. When it binds to calcium and magnesium, NutriCharge allows the release of critically needed phosphorus to your plants throughout the season. NutriCharge has been proven to protect phosphorus in a mix, as well as release phosphorus from the soil within the root zone.
PATENTED GLYPHOSATE SAFENER.
MegaGro™ L is designed as a specialty foliar and in-furrow PGR biostimulant that helps to increase plant metabolism and develop root structure and root hairs. With a patented, ideal ratio of phytohormones IBA and kinetin, MegaGro™ L helps establish a strong foundation and extended vigor for continued success through harvest. MegaGro™ L can be added to any herbicide pass in a wide array of crops.
PLANT GROWTH HORMONE PACKAGE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR REPRODUCTIVE TIMINGS.
Amass is a fortified cytokinin designed to increase pollination and support photosynthesis during fruit or grain fill. This unique combination produces more flowering/fruiting sites and, more importantly, increases the plant’s net capture of solar energy to help drive sugar production. Applied pre-tassel in corn or at R1 in soybeans, Amass can be mixed with herbicides or fungicide applications.
SPECIALITY FORMULATION FOR ABIOTIC STRESS EVENTS.
WeatherKing is a specialty low-analysis foliar fertilizer that improves crop vitality against abiotic stresses, including excessive heat or cold weather. Easily tankmixed and with a wide window of application, WeatherKing is the ideal low-cost option to minimize potential yield loss associated with stress events. WeatherKing can be added to any herbicide or fungicide application in a wide array of crops.
WATER-RITE IS A WATER-CORRECTING AGENT THAT NEUTRALIZES CONTAMINANTS, PREVENTING THEM FROM CHEMICALLY DAMAGING YOUR CROP PROTECTION, FERTILIZER, AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS.
Water-Rite is a water pre-treatment designed to reduce the negative effects that calcium, magnesium, iron, and copper have on fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides. Using Water-Rite will also maximize the availability and efficacy of glyphosate and other phosphate chemistries. When combined with Bio-Prep, these two products are the ideal solution for keeping beneficial biology safe in tank mixes.
BIO-PREP IS A CHLORINE NEUTRALIZER.
Bio-Prep is a water pre-treatment that prevents the negative effects chlorine has on biological products. Chlorine is added to rural and municipal water sources to kill microbes and make it safe to drink. When you use water sources that have been treated with chlorine to fill your sprayer tank, the chlorine kills any beneficial microbes you might be trying to get into your plants. Bio-Prep turns chlorine into the safer chloride form, which is an essential plant nutrient and not harmful to beneficial microbes.
RESIDUE BREAKDOWN DURING DECOMPOSITION.
If slow decomposition of plant or animal residue is a problem for you on your farm or ranch, D-Comp could be the answer. D-Comp is specifically designed to speed the breakdown of plant and animal residue. It even makes the composting process faster, usually without having to manually turn the pile. In fact, manure may convert to compost in 4 to 5 weeks instead of 4 to 5 months, and excess field residue may shrink more quickly. D-Comp is able to deliver these results because of its unique combination of 70 different bacteria and fungi.
BIOLOGICAL SOLUTION FOR LIQUID MANURE MANAGEMENT.
N-tercept is made of a liquid base with biological components. The liquid base is the energy source keeping the biologicals alive and provides them with the energy they need to work through the pile. This base increases and sustains the biological counts, while most products boost levels before plummeting. This base also has a natural tendency to stabilize ammonia.
The biological parts of N-tercept contain bacteria to liquefy the solids. Unique to N-tercept are bacteria specific to DDGs (dry distilled grains). Additional organic decomposers will break down lignin and cellulose, while other biologicals in the formulation protect enzymes.