Wednesday, July 13, 2011
2nd Hour: Miracles in Agriculture
Guest: Ron Smith, Founder of Agri-Gro Marketing, Inc.

Ron Smith and his team at Agri-Gro Marketing, Inc., on 1,000 acres in Southeast Missouri’s foothills of the Ozarks, are working miracles every day with their proprietary fermentation process developed in 1983 by the late Dr. Joe Spruill, with whom Smith worked in 1980 and 1981.

As a result of that cooperative effort, Smith purchased Spruill’s company in 1989 and formed Agri-Gro Marketing, Inc. The products were spectacular. “We caused plants to bloom that had not bloomed in 50 years,” says Smith. It was at the Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando, the largest botanical gardens East of the Mississippi, where the amazing transformation took place.

Agri-Gro is a leader in the field of Bio-Stimulant technology for agricultural and horticultural use. The company has photographs of a 684-pound pumpkin and an 835-pound pumpkin to show just what their incredible products can do.

“In 1979, my wife and I started on a shoestring,” said Smith, who is semi-retired, always on the go and has turned the helm over to his three sons. “Now we have state-of-the-art equipment and research and longevity in the marketplace.”

“I can easily say that our growers can reduce their herbicides and fungicides because of our products. We produce more fruit and fewer insects because we produce a special environment. There are no insects on our land because it is so healthy. Our place is a showplace. It looks like a State Park.”

Smith, a former industrial engineer with the gift of gab, says that his whole focus at this point is information. “Our product sells itself,” he says. Most of it is sold in large pallet quantities for the agricultural grower, but there is a Master Gardener Pack for the home gardener from Bountiful Harvest, an Agri-Gro subsidiary.

In addition to the company’s FoliarBlend, Agri-Gro and Agri-Cal products, there is also a turf formula for sod; Indigo for waste water and sewage plants and Nutri-Zyme, a feed additive to stimulate the digestive system of horses, dogs and cows.

“We serve the agricultural community and ship to 40 different countries on six different continents,” says Smith. “We are multi-faceted. We are a very complicated company.”

Bountiful Harvest – Solutions For Everything You Grow: bountiful-harvest.com/

Agri-Gro Marketing, Inc.: agrigro.com/

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