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Tom Snipes
CEO of Ostara (sustainable crop nutrition company) and ag-industry executive, formerly CEO of Plant Response and leader at Pinnacle Agricultural Holdings and Koch.
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Aug 25, 2026
The Scoop Podcast: Growing Demand, Growing Clutter: Navigating Biologicals in 2026
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12:41Tom SnipesGUEST
And so what makes it unique is most current fertilizers used, particularly most ammonium phosphate fertilizers are water soluble.
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12:49Tom SnipesGUEST
So whenever that happens and you get those phosphates that are solubilizing and they're going into the soil, you're only really probably getting 10 to 30% of that available phosphate that's actually available to the plant.
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13:02Tom SnipesGUEST
Our product being water insoluble, its release mechanism is actually, there's a slight citric acid that is exuded in a lot of the soil biology and plant biology.

Margie EcholkampHOST
So, Tom, if folks want to learn more about Ostara or about CGP2X, where would you point them toward?
The Scoop Podcast: 40 Under 40 Nominees - Nathan Joraanstad & Tommy Setterdahl
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11:16Tom SnipesGUEST
And so what makes it unique is most current fertilizers used, particularly most ammonium phosphate fertilizers, are water-soluble.
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11:25Tom SnipesGUEST
So whenever that happens and you get those phosphates that are solubilizing and they're going into the soil, you're only really probably getting 10 to 30% of that available phosphate that's actually available to the plant.
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11:37Tom SnipesGUEST
Our product being water insoluble, its release mechanism is actually, there's a slight citric acid that is exuded in a lot of the soil biology and plant biology.

Margie EcholkampHOST
So, Tom, if folks want to learn more about Ostara or about CGP2X, where would you point them toward?