• Re-Genus Natural Fertiliser saves 99% CO2 and applies at least 50% less Nitrogen (N) compared to synthetic fertilisers and is approved for use in Organic Farming
• Veolia are teaming up to investigate circular raw material supply chains, recycling nutrient rich agricultural and food residues into Re-Genus products
• Today, Land Energy are opening a major new pelleting plant in Newark Lincoln to produce Re-Genus natural, fungi-rich fertiliser at scale
• Together, the partners aim to deliver more than 60,000 tonnes pa of natural, regenerative fertiliser to the UK market within 3 years, displacing the equivalent of 12% of the total UK imported fertiliser market – saving 50,000 tonnes of CO2e per year compared to synthetic fertiliser.

Today, Re-genus launch their plan to disrupt the £1.7bn UK synthetic fertiliser industry with two new partnerships to source and manufacture high quality, home-grown, regenerative fertiliser in the UK.

Land Energy and Re-Genus have been working together to trial production methods and ingredient mixes for over a year to ensure that the key ingredient – living fungi – survives processing but still creates a product which is very easy to transport and for farmers to spread using direct seed drills, fertiliser spreaders, muck spreaders, or even drones.

Veolia, who are committed to supporting the Ecological Transformation across their business, and Re-Genus are just beginning an R&D partnership to figure out how Re-Genus products can use more of Veolia’s managed waste streams, from fish and bone meal to food waste compost.

Re-genus natural fertilisers enable farmers to restore soils using UK-grown fungi ‘starters’, plus natural nutrition and circular raw materials. All the ingredients are pelleted by Land Energy into a ‘one stop shop’ for farmers. This pellet becomes a potent fungal inoculant to restore the biological function of the soil.

By re-establishing nature’s nutrient cyclers in the soils the crop can access natural nutrition. This includes accessing nutrition already in the soil which is not ‘bio-available’ to plants without fungi to help. Re-Genus pellets also contain natural nutrition and are completely synthetic chemical free. This means farmers can move away from synthetic fertiliser. This has multiple benefits:

• Saves 5 tonnes of carbon per tonne of fertiliser (versus using synthetic)
• Reduces nutrient run off and preserves local watercourses
• Reduces farmer dependence on fertiliser by restoring natural nutrient cycling led by fungi.

Founder and Co-CEO of Re-Genus Daniel Iddon said

‘With increasing concern over both climate change and food security and farmers facing import taxes on high carbon goods like fertiliser within the next 3 years (see CBAM), it feels like the perfect time to scale up a home-grown and ultra-low carbon fertiliser’.

Iddon’s Co-CEO Katie Critchlow said:

‘We chose Land Energy and Veolia as our partners as we trust them to deliver on our brand values. Land Energy has the existing infrastructure and care for their supply chain sustainability that we wanted from day one and Veolia offer an incredible opportunity to source sustainable sources of natural nutrition at scale including from residue streams from plant, fish and animal supply chains.’

Veolia offers a unique opportunity for circular nutrient cycling and to deliver huge scope 3 emissions savings to their clients by ensuring that residues of global supply chains don’t go to waste – returning nutrition to the land rather than synthesising nitrogen via the carbon intensive Haber-Bosch process can save 5 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of fertiliser applied.

Land Energy brings its expertise in sustainable UK wood sourcing, being certified by both FSC and Grown in Britain and only using known, sustainable and UK sourced timber. The partnership started because two of Land Energy’s residues (bark fines and pellet fines) from their main product; wood pellets, could be utilised in Re-Genus products to create a pellet which can be easily spread by farmers. Using residue streams and turning them into valuable product to create home-grown fertiliser makes Re-Genus products even more sustainable, a core value of both partners.

John Westmacott CEO said ‘we’re incredibly excited to be able to bring this new sustainable product to the UK market with Re-Genus, it feels like a game changer for sustainable soils, climate change mitigation and UK food security’.

Land Energy’s pelleting plant will start trial production tomorrow and will be running at full capacity later this month.

The scale up comes at a critical time for UK food security after recent warnings from food industry insiders about the growing threat to food security in the UK. Climate change and nature loss are other key issues affecting food security and Re-Genus product both helps farmers mitigate and adapt to these issues.