Modern farming is no longer just about supplying nutrients, it’s about maximizing efficiency, protecting crops from stress, and improving outcomes through strategies like amino acid plant stress + nitrogen management for corn. Which together help farmers get the most out of every acre. By combining effective stress mitigation with smarter nitrogen use, growers can better support plant health, improve nutrient efficiency, and ultimately drive stronger, more consistent yields.
Two advanced products from the PCT | Sunrise BioBuild family (C-Green Amino+ II and N198 w/MIC Nitrogen Management Aid) work together to help farmers improve plant resilience, nutrient uptake, and overall crop performance. Let’s break down why this dual approach matters and how it can directly impact your bottom line.
C-Green Amino+ II: Helping Crops Handle Stress and Thrive
Stress is one of the biggest hidden yield robbers in agriculture. Whether it’s heat, cold, drought, or excess moisture, crops burn valuable energy trying to recover. C-Green Amino+ II is designed to take that burden off the plant. This product combines the following:
Instead of forcing plants to produce amino acids on their own (which is energy-intensive), this product supplies them directly, allowing crops to redirect that energy into growth and development.
Key Benefits of C-Green Amino+ II:
Because it’s versatile, C-Green Amino+ II can be used across multiple crops including vegetables, wheat, alfalfa, corn, and soybeans.
While stress management is essential, nitrogen efficiency is just as critical especially in corn production. N198 w/MIC takes nitrogen management to the next level by using a powerful combination of microbes and micronutrients to improve how plants access and use nutrients. (Watch Product Spotlight video here.) This formulation contains the following:
These microbes work directly in the soil and root zone to:
Why It Matters for Corn
Corn is a nitrogen-demanding crop, but over-applying nitrogen doesn’t necessarily improve results. Instead N198 w/MIC helps maximize the efficiency of the nitrogen you already apply, ensuring plants utilize it effectively throughout the growing season.
The Power of Using Both Products Together
While each product delivers strong performance on its own, the real advantage comes when they’re used as part of a complete program.
Here’s how they connect:
| C-Green Amino+ II | N198 w/MIC |
|---|---|
| Reduces plant stress | Improves nitrogen availability |
| Supplies amino acids to conserve plant energy | Uses microbes to maximize nutrient efficiency |
| Enhances plant resilience | Builds stronger root systems |
| Works across multiple crops | Optimized specifically for corn |
The Result:
C-Green Amino+ II prepares the plant to handle environmental challenges, while N198 w/MIC helps to ensure the plant has the nutrients it needs to grow efficiently.
A Smarter Approach to Crop Nutrition
Farmers today are under pressure to do more with less. Examples include: reduce input waste, protect soil health, and still increase yields. By combining stress mitigation (C-Green Amino+ II) and microbial nitrogen efficiency (N198 w/MIC) you’re investing in a system that supports crops from emergence through critical growth stages.
If you’re looking to improve crop resilience, maximize nitrogen efficiency, build better root systems and increase overall crop performance, then integrating these BioBuild solutions into your program is a step forward.
Better inputs. Smarter nutrition. Stress mitigation. Stronger crops.
Reach out to your Sunrise Cooperative representative for more details on these products.
See BioBuild BioTrac-L in Action: Boosting Corn Performance Across OhioFarmers across Ohio are seeing real results with BioBuild® BioTrac-L. In today’s farming environment, every input matters. With rising costs and increasing pressure to maximize yield, growers are looking for smarter ways to get more from their crop nutrient programs. One solution gaining traction is the use of microbial inoculants and enzymes to improve nutrient availability and soil health. That’s where BioBuild BioTrac-L comes in. This season, the PCT | Sunrise® research team is conducting trials in six different Ohio counties, and the results are speaking for themselves!
Click on the photos below to see how BioBuild BioTrac-L is performing on corn, in real-world Ohio conditions, from emergence to mid-season growth. Click on the photos to enlarge.
Healthy soil is alive with microbial activity. These microbes play a critical role in breaking down organic matter and converting nutrients into forms plants can use. BioTrac-L introduces a team of beneficial microbes that produce enzymes and organic acids to:
The included enzyme in BioTrac-L breaks down complex plant residues and soil organic matter into simple sugars—an immediate food source for microbes. This jump-starts microbial activity, even in cold or wet soils, helping crops get off to a stronger start.
BioTrac-L is flexible and easy to use:
It is tank-mix compatible with most fertilizers and crop protection products (avoid copper-based fungicides), and it has an 18-month shelf life when stored properly.
BioBuild BioTrac-L isn’t just another additive, it’s a tool to help you unlock more from your soil and fertilizer investment. By improving nutrient efficiency and supporting microbial life, it helps create a more resilient, productive growing environment.
Whether you’re managing tight budgets while pushing for top-end yields, BioBuild BioTrac-L offers a science-backed way to support your crop from the ground up.
Learn more about BioBuild BioTrac-L from this sell sheet or reach out to your Sunrise Cooperative representative. Don’t forget, PCT | Sunrise offers other biostimulants products, visit the BioBuild product page to view them all.
Our PCT | Sunrise® BioBuild®, Croprotek® and FolrFeed® product families are filled with crop nutrient products to help your farm operation with that mid-season momentum.
BioBuild products use multiple modes of action and bacteria strains to promote plant growth and reduce stress. These three BioBuild products are what we recommend during those early to mid growth stages.
FolrFeed products offer mid-season solutions for correcting nutrient deficiencies that are visible and invisible.
Croprotek products defend your crop from insects, weeds, diseases and nitrogen loss at varying growth stages. PCT | Sunrise has 11 Croprotek products to offer, these three below are great examples for your crop protection toolbox.
Our StandUp and NutraBurst product of families promote early plant health and adds micronutrients with customized crop nutrition blends.
Contact your PCT | Sunrise team to help with your mid-season momentum on your operation.
A Solution to Help with Stress ToleranceThere is one particular product in the PCT | Sunrise® product line up that can be the solution to help with stress tolerance in your crops throughout Ohio. Check out the BioBuild® C-Green Amino + II product below and read how it can help your crops during stress.
BioBuild® C-Green Amino + II is a seaweed extract fortified with organic acids in combination with N-amino acids + a soil penetrating agent to help any plant mitigate stress. C-Green Amino + II can be used in corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa and veggies as in-furrow/2×2 starter, transplant water solution or foliar application. A foliar application with crop protection products, fertilizer, or other biological products. We recommend applying C-Green Amino + II just prior to a stress event or immediately following the event, for best activity and faster recovery.
C-Green Amino + II provides stress mitigation to the plant later in the season and under hot/dry, cool/wet conditions. Formulated for in-furrow, 2×2 and foliar applications, this product can be mixed with crop protection, fertilizer or other biological products when applied as a foliar application. C-Green Amino + II includes a soil penetrating agent to keep the seaweed extract, organic acids and amino acids in the soil profile available. That way it doesn’t lose them through the soil with water leachate. The seaweed extracts in C-Green Amino + II are full with natural plant-growth hormones such as auxins and cytokinins. As well as fortified with organic acids with N-amino acids in one application. Organic acids work even better when combined with seaweed extracts. They hold onto plant-growth hormones in an exchangeable form to amplify their effects on plants.
Plants have the capacity to biosynthesize all the amino acids required from nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. The biosynthesis of amino acids is complex and energy consuming. As such, the application of amino acids allows the plant to save energy on this process. Which can help improve plant development during critical growth stages or times of stress.
Amino acids are fundamental to a plant for protein synthesis. Naturally produced N-amino acids, found in C-Green Amino+ II, are synthesized by the plant at specific phases of development. These phases include nitrogen mobilization in germinating seeds, nitrogen recycling in vegetative cells in response to stress and nitrogen remobilization during seed embryogenesis. The supplement of amino acids in essential quantities can improve the overall quality of crops leading to improved yield potential.
C-Green Amino + II application works best in-furrow or in transplant water solutions. The application use-rate should be increased when applied away from the seed or roots in a below ground application. C-Green Amino + II should be applied at the V3-V5 stage in corn and/or later in beans. But please consult with your Sunrise Agronomy Solutions Advisor for final application timing.
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Get a Biological Boost with BioBuildOur BioBuild® Family of products uses multiple modes of action and bacteria strains to promote plant growth and reduce stress. Beneficial microbes, biologicals and organic acids help plants break dormancy, deal with environmental challenges and ensure sound nutrition throughout the growing season.
BioCape: microbial inoculant plus an enzyme for dry fertilizer impregnation aimed at improving nutrient uptake and microbial soil health.
BioComplete II: a blend of over two dozen various strains of beneficial microbes that enhance plant health and vigor. This product is designed to increase flower production, healthier and more vigorous root systems. As well as, move phosphate solubilization and nitrogen fixation.
BioSpray II:a specifically designed bio-stimulant technology containing a beneficial microbial team for producers who do not have in-furrow delivery capability.
C-Green Amino+ II: a seaweed extract fortified with organic acids in combination with N-amino acids + a soil penetrating agent to help any plant mitigate stress.
Digester: a highly concentrated blend of beneficial microorganisms specifically formulated to reduce recent crop residue.
N198 w/MIC Nitrogen Management Aid: a select group of concentrated beneficial microbes with an organic food source applied as a nitrogen management aid coupled with the micronutrients boron, copper, zinc, manganese and molybdenum for enhanced early growth, vigor and to develop a larger root mass in a corn crop.
Nourish 10S: combination of sulfonated humic and fulvic acids.
Soy BioST+R: combines a select group of concentrated beneficial microbes with an organic food source applied as a seed treatment inoculant.
SUN-5: a 5% fulvic acid plant nutritional product.
Biozolve: a blend of over two dozen “beneficial” strains of microorganisms with an affinity for organic solids.
Manure MGR: comprised of over 25 strains of microorganisms that thrive by degrading livestock manure in waste pits and lagoons. It’s 100% natural and safe to use.
BioBuild® products are safe and easy to use. Application timing, rates and restrictions vary with each product. Contact a PCT | Sunrise representative for more information about giving your crops a biological boost with our BioBuild family of products.
BioBuild & StandUp Products Improve Crop NutritionBioBuild® and StandUp® products work together to improve crop nutrition & yield potential. BioBuild N198 w/MIC Nitrogen Management Aid combines a select group of concentrated beneficial microbes with an organic food source applied as a nitrogen management aid for enhanced early growth, vigor and to develop a larger root mass in a corn crop. StandUp Fertizol® Zn increases the length of time zinc is available to the plant. It allows zinc, phosphorus and other micronutrients already present in the soil to be more available for plant uptake.
In a 2-year average BioBuild N198 w/MIC Nitrogen Management Aid had a +3.7 bushel advantage for corn. Find more information on the BioBuild N198 w/MIC Nitrogen Management Aid sell sheet.
In a 3-year average StandUp Fertizol Zn had a +3.8 bushel advantage for corn and a +2.7 bushel advantage for soybeans. Find more information on the StandUp Fertizol Zn sell sheet.
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