Fertilizer, Lawn Maintenance & EEFs | Allied Nutrients
Lawn Care and Landscape Professionals
Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Advantages:
Fewer Fertilizer Applications
- Helps to reduce overall fertilizer expenses and equipment costs
- Allows for optimized labor allocation
- Less time fertilizing provides opportunities to visit more properties per day or offer additional revenue-generating services
- Less bag handling reduces risk of injuries
- Applying controlled-release, slow-release and stabilized nitrogen enhanced efficiency fertilizers (EEFs), nitrogen (N) use can be reduced by up to 40% when compared to conventional fertilizers like urea and ammonium sulfate
- Saves money and helps to efficiently manage the use of this valued fertilizer resource
- Responsible N utilization helps to differentiate the lawn or landscape professional from the competition and provides a key selling advantage when talking with current or potential customers
“Many of our sales leads come from referrals; our customers like what we’re doing and are telling their friends and neighbors.”
Bob Mann, formerly of Lawn Dawg
Optimum Nutrient Plant Uptake
- Minimizes growth flushes
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Reduces unplanned mowing, scalping, clipping and hardscape clean-up
- Consistent and reliable nutrient delivery minimizes the feast/famine cycle that can cause stress
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Healthy lawns can be more tolerant to weeds and diseases
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Healthy lawns reduce the need for additional lawn care maintenance products that may have to be purchased and applied
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Efficiently works to promote landscape appearance and vitality
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EEF technology, longevity and SGN options enhance the ability to tailor fertilization programs that meet both business needs and specific turfgrass or plant requirements
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Environmentally responsible with low potential for nutrient leaching, denitrification, runoff or volatilization
EEFs: A Critical Tool
“We’re all about being as efficient with our nitrogen as possible, and EEFs play are key in helping us get that done.”
Brad Johnson, Lawn America
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