Growing Together and Giving Back in 2023
At Pivot Bio, farmers are at the heart of everything we do. Our purpose is to deliver crop nutrition technologies to farmers so they can reliably and productively grow the food the world needs.
We grew that effort in 2023, supporting more farmers on more acres than ever before. We have and will continue to deliver on that growth by expanding our footprint across the Midwest, doubling manufacturing capacity to meet the soaring demand for our microbial nitrogen.
We continued to broaden our research initiatives by partnering with more land-grant universities. This year, we set a new standard in nitrogen science with annual, large-scale independent and in-house research spanning tens of thousands of plots nationwide.
It’s been an incredible year for our company and the farmers we support.
As we close 2023, we must acknowledge how we got here. Our mission is to help farmers feed a growing population with fewer resources. We accomplish this by delivering crop nutrition technologies that offer a more efficient approach to nitrogen management.
But we also know that our collective success extends beyond any lab or corn field. Our impact is measured in the tangible difference we make in the lives of those within the communities we serve, the very communities that cultivate the future of agriculture.
Our team showed up in many farming communities this year. We helped fight local hunger through food bank donations in California, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, where our offices and warehouses are located.
In Iowa, our team presented a donation to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Story County in Ames. The donation was accompanied by a generous truckload of turkeys, perfectly timed to ensure families had a meal on Thanksgiving.
Ryan Santi, CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Story County, emphasized the positive impact that local businesses can have on addressing food insecurity in their communities, especially in a year highlighted by rising food costs.
In Nebraska, we partnered with Sparks Motors to give away a custom-built John Wayne edition Ford F-550. The truck giveaway, presented to fourth-generation farmer Brian Wegener and his family, was a unique way to help raise awareness for skin cancer through the John Wayne Cancer Foundation. To express their gratitude, the Wegener family used their new truck to donate food to the Boone County Food Pantry.
These donations tell the Pivot Bio story. It’s a story of not only scientific advancement and environmental stewardship but also of shared support, where our growth is inseparable from the prosperity of the communities we are a part of.
As we look toward the future, we are deeply committed to remaining a company whose success is profoundly rooted in corporate responsibility and community engagement.
We are proud of that success, and we look forward to continued growth in 2024.
