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Inoculants provide the legume seeds with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
The nodules that form on the growing plant's roots takes nitrogen from the air and make it readily available to the plant, thus boosting yields. Regardless of your planter set-up, we have an inoculant that can be used in it. Various studies between 1993-1996 on 103 sites with several different inoculants showed a 1.1 bushels per acre increase over uninoculated soybeans. A 1993 study of Cell-Tech S on 23 sites showed a 1.5 bushels increase in yield. With the low cost per acre of using inoculants, there is clearly an economic benefit to the grower.