Ben Frieler

Minnesota Regional Business Manager for BW-Fusion

[Ben Frieler @BFrielz]

@BaerView Is this the equivalent to tillers on a happy corn plant? 🤣

[Dusty Rich 🇺🇸 @drich82]

Bringing our farm into the future of elite seed treatments and bio controls.
A lot of people still talk about biologicals like they’re “coming someday.” They’re already here!
Excited to see BW Defend going to work on our soybeans this season. Time to put it to the test where it matters most.@bw_fusion

[Ben Frieler @BFrielz]

@HagemanParker @MeatSauce1 Took my Dad to this game for his birthday. It was electric, downtown was buzzing, everyone high fiving. Haven’t gone to a game since, embarrassing what this ownership has done.

[Ben Frieler @BFrielz]

@BeneathTheRows How much do you think in furrow starters do in these situations? In your opinion how much is too much?

[Josh Messer @JoshMesser_Ag]

#Hottake if u want to give crops the best chance at season long efficiency stop using starter fertilizer. It delays association and the plant has to work harder to maintain pathways in. Only exception is risk of fallow syndrome.

[Dusty Rich 🇺🇸 @drich82]

💥We’re looking for you!💥

Are you in retail ag sales right now and struggling to find balance?

What will your focus change to today?
Seed? Chem? Fertilizer?

Or are you jumping in a tender truck, pulling tanks, or helping cover operations because the season demands it?

That’s often the reality of retail. The pace is relentless and the role can become scattered.

I know because I lived it!

My time in retail taught me a lot. The relationships and agronomic foundation I gained there shaped the way I approach this industry today. But it also pushed me to want more clarity and focus in the role I was playing.

That’s what we’re building at BW Fusion.

Our Field Sales Representatives are focused on helping farmers and dealers implement agronomic solutions that drive better outcomes. Clear priorities. Clear expectations. Real agronomy conversations.

If you’re passionate about helping farmers but feel like the role you’re in today has become scattered, this might resonate.

Send me a message if you’d like to explore the opportunity.

https://t.co/JrCRyAnrUG

[Josh Messer @JoshMesser_Ag]

NEVER look at one aspect of the soil or one metric to make a sound recommendation. Everyone talks how many organisms are in a teaspoon of soil yet ignore it when it comes time to make a rec. Beware of “experts” that spent 10 min researching if it matters. We are 15 years in

[Ben Frieler @BFrielz]

@nacholeber Why did I get goosebumps!? 🥺🤣

[Ben Frieler @BFrielz]

OM is the house/pantry, WEOC is the actual food on the table to feed the microbes so they can go to work cycling nutrients. You can have a little house with a lot of available food, you can have a big house with an empty pantry.

[Jason Schley @JasonSchley]

I get asked a lot about WEOC vs OM. I even see some on here think it is close enough to OM, and no reason to test it…. It’s all the same etc.

As you can see, in the real world, there is a small correlation but it is very weak.

Personal experiences show that you can have 5% OM and 150 Weoc or you can have 1% OM and have 150 Weoc. This is the last 62,588 samples the lab ran.

Definition of Weoc from Grok: This soluble carbon serves as a vital energy source for soil microbes, influencing biological activity, nutrient cycling, and overall soil health—higher levels often indicate improved fertility and microbial efficiency in agricultural systems.

Does this not seem important to you? I feel if people understood it better they would focus on it. It’s the driver of a lot of the nutrient efficiencies or lack there of we see in ag.

[Ben Frieler @BFrielz]

@tlschwerz Enough with the click bait. Even you can’t believe half the shit you’ve been posting lately. 🙄

[Ben Frieler @BFrielz]

@chaserp1 @Dirt_2_Dollars @Kyle_Olson_ @bw_fusion @Agronomy365 They do! It’s quick and easy, plus avoids confusion when I can remember the color not the number. 😂

[Ben Frieler @BFrielz]

@sean_nettleton @chaserp1 @Dirt_2_Dollars @Kyle_Olson_ @bw_fusion @Agronomy365 Oh come on Sean! Gotta have some fresh air and feel the wind in your hair! Well… you’ll feel something up there, right? 😏

[Jason Schley @JasonSchley]

I get asked often who is BW Fusion and why did you choose to work with them?

Let me explain…

At BW Fusion, our only goal is getting farming RIGHT—for this year’s crop, for the soil, and for the next generation of crops and farmers (the reason for the investment into agronomy 365).

The owners committed that to me before I started. The lab, (NLAg) does a ton of research, but it’s a small company that can only invest so much and keep the doors open. So I decided what is best for my life long dreams of agronomy was to team up with a company that cares, and with people I knew and trusted.

Our agronomy team absolutely drives me, they could chase bigger paychecks elsewhere. We stay together because we love / respect each other, respect/ appreciate our growers, and we chase the same goals: proving what truly works in the field and can create consistent ROI. We want to be remembered by the movement of improving Ag not just being happy with the status quo!

We fund our own NPK trials… even though we (BW) don’t sell a single pound of fertilizer.
Why? Before we can improve
Someone has to question the “that’s how we’ve always done it” answers we’ve all accepted.

As an agronomy team this drives us to be better for our growers and to work hard for the company that allows us to learn more, especially knowing the dollar they spent doesn’t equate to a sale but in trust by the farmer and the long term growth of our company depends on that.

We focus on an Agronomy message and not just selling the magic in a jug, it’s a systems approach of finding what is truly limiting your efficiency and ROI. The magic in the jug supports the resolution to the problem we uncover and the future of learning more.

Half of what we learned in school is right.
The rest is waiting to be discovered—we know we can’t do it alone but as team and with the right partners and customers we can do this together.

Growers and agronomists: if you’re done with the status-quo advice and ready to dig deeper into real yield + real soil and tissue knowledge, let’s talk. We don’t know it all / don’t claim to and that’s the fun part, the more of you that join us in learning will continue to push the curve higher. I’ve learned more from agronomists and farmers than any and all books could ever teach you.

We’re small. We’re stubborn. We’re in it to win it, with you!

Learn together. Grow together. 🤝

BIG AG does not own Ag, they only have the upper hand.

Sign a field up for baseline Rx, and let us prove we out care the competition. And to the people that have helped us get here w/ support & knowledge - Thank You!!

We get nearly 80,000 new acres a month which proves the systems approach has found success.

[Travis P. Messer @travismesser81]

🤔or maybe this grower has tremendous WEOC scores along w/ really high HT3 numbers? Or maybe his available pool is larger than most wait, Melich 3 will tell us the whole story right ? PPM chemistry only focused fertility programs is why this industry is failing farmers today.

[Shawn Brenneman @shawnbrenneman]

If you are serious about Soil Health, you need to get an Indicator Max soil test from Agronomy 365. With multiple biological metrics, it will tell you the potential your soil has including Total Nutrient Pool. Reach out to me for more details - [email protected]. #ontag

[Duane Lowry @DuaneLowry]

I don’t know which company will best lead us into this biological future, but the science behind the premise/claims is rock solid. At some point, this will become the future.

[Jason Schley @JasonSchley]

Another opportunity to gather information today.

We can not continue to focus on NPK only and loading the system up to magical ppm levels, and then wonder how we are going survive.

We need to focus on a season long approach with those fertilizer dollars. How do we feed the back half as well or better than the first half of the growing season?

I’m Not saying NPK is not important to your success as it is. But the big 3 can’t be the only focus.

Do you Audit your fertilizer program? I feel we should all be asking ourselves these questions. As change is needed.

[Jason Schley @JasonSchley]

In Ag…… let’s be honest we know so very little, we just hope to capture a bit of knowledge each opportunity we get. We should learn from one another not cry about someone’s ideas because they are different then what you learned or were taught.

History teaches us a lot, but it doesn’t mean you can’t move forward, it’s a constant cycle of learning. And no one learns without others! It’s a team game that we are all in together.

The guy that says I can’t trust that guy as he sells that seed or that fertilizer or that foliar is going to see rough times. As learning is opening your eyes and ears to ideas, and adding them to your library full of knowledge from your own experiences. That’s how something improves. It’s not the same thing every year and it’s not changing everything all at once. It’s bringing ideas and practices together to make it all work and bridge the gap.

[Kyle Olson @Kyle_Olson_]

Ground Truthing Part 5. If you’re a service provider or agronomist pulling BaselineRx samples this fall, post what you’re seeing. Whether it’s your buckets, zones, or something unique in the field, share it and talk through what you think is happening. There are so many things that tie directly back to BaselineRx and our soil test in the past and I’ve just never talked about them before, but it’s a great learning tool. Growers deserve better data to drive better decisions, but many don’t know about BaselineRx!