Cannabis offers new market for Ag tech companies

If it’s good for traditional crops, it will be good for marijuana, too. That’s the approach some Ag tech companies are taking with cannabis.

The passage of Prop 64, which legalized recreational marijuana use in California, has opened up new markets for many Ag companies and some are jumping right in.

A Morgan Hill company, Plant Nutrition Technologies, says it has already delivered two tons of “Smoker’s Blend” fertilizer to medical cannabis growers in Greenfield.

The company says their all-natural fertilizer saves water and eliminates runoff containing nitrates or phosphates.

“Which means their product is much more flavorful, much more aromatic and they get more yield per plant,” said President Dennis Amoroso.

The company prides itself on developing innovative fertilizers that they hope will replace all synthetics in the agricultural business.

“Synthetics cannot sustain farmland, it’s an unsustainable technology,” said Amoroso.

The fertilizer is ground up rock that re-energizes and re-mineralizes the soil naturally.