Pivot Bio Announces Launch of CERT-N for U.S. Cotton
Pivot Bio is launching CERT-N, a new biological product for cotton crops in the United States.
The product will be available through Pivot Bio’s distribution partners for a select group of growers this season, with a full commercial launch set for the 2026 planting season.
CERT-N features Pivot Bio’s patent-protected technology that provides a steady source of nitrogen to cotton plants from emergence to harvest, providing weatherproof nitrogen and helping the crop reach its full yield and fiber quality potential.
These gene-edited, nitrogen-fixing biological products deliver nitrogen directly to the roots, even in the presence of synthetic fertilizers and manure.
CERT-N is the only gene-edited nitrogen fixer available in cotton.
Applied as a seed treatment, it spoon-feeds nitrogen to the roots, setting crops up for early square retention, higher boll counts, and healthier plants at defoliation time.
In Pivot Bio’s 2024 large-scale farm trials across eight states, fields treated with CERT-N replaced an average of 20% of their normal nitrogen program and saw an average yield gain of 50 pounds of lint per acre and a $35 boost in ROI.
“We are certainly excited to announce this latest innovation in crop fertility,” says Chris Abbott, CEO, Pivot Bio. “Growers have been asking us to provide a product for cotton, and we are proud to make CERT-N available to complement their nutrition program. The results we have seen in independent research and directly with growers have been strong, and we are confident that cotton growers will see a strong benefit and value by adding this product to their fertility plan.
About Pivot Bio
Growing crops to sustain billions more people and reducing emissions are among the grand challenges of our time.
Key to both is nitrogen: nitrogen fertilizers are essential to generate the crop yields we can’t live without; yet they also lead to greenhouse gas emissions and reduce water and air quality.
Pivot Bio is a solution at this intersection.
It’s what future-positive agriculture means to us: helping farmers grow the crops the world needs, reliably and sustainably, in the face of increasing volatility.
