Oxford County dairy farmer Don Bender compares the traditional method of fertilizer application on corn to eating a huge meal at Thanksgiving then not feeling so well after from over eating.

Nitrogen fertilizer is normally applied for corn in bulk at two times, at spring planting and once in the growing season with hopes that it will provide sufficient nutrients over that period of time.

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“It is like applying nutrients with a shovel instead of a spoon,” said Bender.

The traditional two-time bulk application also initially throws the soil micro-organisms out of balance, said Bender who uses the health of the worm population and their activity in the soil as one gauge of soil balance.

This line of thinking brought him in contact with a start up company in Waterloo that

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