Concept AgriTek
Concept AgriTek is a privately held agricultural inputs company based in Charleston, Missouri that develops and sells biological, foliar, and nutrient-efficiency products for commercial row crop and specialty crop growers across the U.S. Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2010
- HeadquartersCharleston, United States
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What Concept AgriTek does
Concept AgriTek is a privately held agricultural inputs company headquartered at 1300 Plant Road in Charleston, Missouri. Founded in 2010 and led by owner-CEO Trey Curtis, the company develops and sells biological products, foliar fertilizers, seed treatments, and full-season nutrient-efficiency solutions for commercial agriculture. The company serves growers across the U.S. Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast, organized around two primary customer segments: row crop producers (corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, cotton) and specialty crop producers (potatoes, peanuts, sugarcane, hay, turf), with solutions structured by application stage (Seed Treatment, Planting, Foliar, Full Season) rather than by SKU-level catalog browsing.
The company's core technical differentiator is a stack of nine proprietary technology platforms — BioTek (live biology in a suspended state), AminoTek (patent-pending amino acid technology), NitroTek (nitrogen stabilization), PeneTek (soil penetration), StressTek (stress reduction), TransMaxx (translocated foliar feeding), RootTek (root development), Flavonoid (plant growth process enhancement), and VermiTek (worm cast technology) — which are combined across approximately thirty branded SKUs. Concept AgriTek uses this stack to design individualized fertility programs anchored on soil testing rather than off-the-shelf fertilizer pricing, and has published trial data culminating in a documented world-record non-irrigated soybean yield of 154.98 bushels per acre in collaboration with Locus Agriculture and AgroTech USA.
Concept AgriTek makes money through one-time product sales of its proprietary fertility inputs, distributed via a dealer network and direct agronomist-led grower consultations. Pricing is custom-quoted based on soil analysis and crop requirements rather than tiered public pricing, and the company has built a CA Finance program offering grower loans through Rabobank (RABO) and John Deere Financial to reduce purchase friction. Revenue, funding, and ownership details are not publicly disclosed.
Concept AgriTek firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Concept AgriTek
- Legal name
- Concept AgriTek
- Website
- https://conceptagritek.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2010
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Short description
- Concept AgriTek is a privately held agricultural inputs company based in Charleston, Missouri that develops and sells biological, foliar, and nutrient-efficiency products for commercial row crop and specialty crop growers across the U.S. Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Concept AgriTek industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Agricultural Fertilizers and Biological Crop Inputs
- NAICS
- Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (3253), Fertilizer and Compost Manufacturing (32531), Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (32532)
- SIC
- Agricultural Chemicals (2870), Agricultural Services (700)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Foliar Fertilizers & Foliar Nutrition Programs (AFABACAC)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Agronomy Advisory & Field Services (Retailer-Affiliated) (AFABAJAH), Yield Optimization & Crop Performance Consulting (AFACABAC), Biologicals Distribution & Field Application Services (AFABAEAN), Fertilizer & Micronutrient Formulations (NPK blends, chelates, suspensions) (AFABAIAB)
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Where Concept AgriTek is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Charleston
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
Concept AgriTek business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D
Revenue model
- Agricultural Fertilizer and Biological Products: Concept AgriTek generates revenue through the sale of biological products, foliar fertilizers, seed treatments, and full-season nutrition solutions. Products are sold through dealers and directly to growers with financing options available through CA Finance.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Multi-year contract | Custom solutions based on soil testing and crop needs |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels3 records
Marketing channels6 records
Concept AgriTek product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Concept AgriTek manufactures and sells a portfolio of proprietary biological products, foliar fertilizers, seed treatments, and full-season crop nutrition solutions for commercial agriculture, organized by application stage (seed treatment, planting, foliar, full season) and by commodity (corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, cotton, hay, potatoes, peanuts, sugarcane, turf). The company combines agronomy, biology, and chemistry with nine proprietary technology platforms (BioTek, NitroTek, PeneTek, RootTek, StressTek, TransMaxx, VermiTek, AminoTek, Flavonoid) and delivers customized fertility programming built on individual soil testing, sold through a dealer network and direct-to-grower agronomist consultations across the U.S. Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast.
Product overview
Concept AgriTek is an agricultural technology company offering a comprehensive portfolio of biological, foliar, and nutrient-efficiency products for commercial agriculture. The company provides solutions organized by application method (Seed Treatment, Planting, Foliar, Full Season) and by commodity (Corn, Soybeans, Wheat, Rice, Cotton, Hay, Potatoes, Peanuts, Sugarcane, Turf). The core offering consists of proprietary technology platforms including BioTek (live biology), NitroTek (nitrogen stabilization), PeneTek (soil penetration), RootTek (root development), StressTek (stress reduction), TransMaxx (foliar feeding), VermiTek (worm cast technology), AminoTek (patent pending amino acids), and Flavonoid Technology. Products like AminoGro, Carbon RX, NitroGuard, and Concept S17 represent the core nutrient efficiency offerings, while products like Bio-Aid, Chitocide, and Buck Barrier address crop protection needs. The company combines agronomy, biology, and chemistry to deliver personalized fertility programming for growers.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- AminoTek: Patent Pending Technology
- BioTek
- Flavonoid
- RootTek
- NitroTek
- PeneTek
- StressTek
- TransMaxx
- VermiTek
Products and services
- AminoGro (pat. pending) Liquid formulation combining urea, potassium acetate, kelp extracts, sugar beet vinasse, and complex amino acids for direct application to enhance plant nutrition.
- Bio Health Combines nutrition with robust biology to boost plant health and provide natural resistance to stresses caused by external pressures.
- Bio-Aid Powered by BioTek, delivers an initial contact kill and suppresses and controls phytophthora, pythium, and downy mildew.
- BioRite Combines BunchaBugs DF microbial blend with RootTek technology as a food source for microbes, plus PeneTek soil penetrant technology.
- Biovate XP Powered by BioTek and RootTek technologies, enhances root and stalk development by bolstering the plant's hormones and provides a complex food source.
- Boost Max D Aids in growth and development of dicot plants by providing specific biology found living in and around the root zone.
- Boost Max M Aids in growth and development of monocot plants by providing specific biology found living in and around the root zone.
- Buck Barrier Crop defense system that discourages deer and other wildlife from consuming leaves, flowers, fruits, and seedlings of corn and other plants.
- CalBor Foliar product using TransMaxx technology that delivers a blend of calcium and boron into plant tissues.
- Carbon RX Carbon-based soil, plant, and microbe booster made with highly refined humic acid, organic carbon, and amino acid made from US corn.
- Chitocide Broadcast nematicide that effectively controls and suppresses plant-parasitic nematodes in soil with dual mode of action.
- Concept B10 10% boron product with StressTek technology added to reduce plant stress.
- Concept Mn Manganese product that aids in the photosynthetic process and serves as a stress mitigator in plants; performs best when applied at early growth stages.
- Concept S17 Engineered to give plants an excellent supply of sulfur while increasing efficiency of nitrogen uptake; powered by NitroTek, a carbon-based nitrogen stabilizer.
- Concept K13 Enables blending potassium with UAN, helping to balance the N to K ratio which is important to efficiency of both nutrients.
- DEF (Diesel Engine Exhaust Fluid) Diesel engine exhaust fluid formulation quality-tested to meet superior standards and certified by the American Petroleum Institute.
- Foliar 20/20 Uses TransMaxx technology to drive phosphorus and potassium into the plant through foliar application.
- Foliar K Premium potassium foliar product enhanced with StressTek technology to help mitigate stress during the growing season.
- Foliar RX Foliar product with StressTek technology added for enhanced performance and stress management during the growing season.
- Fulvic Force Increases absorption and mobilization of herbicides, fungicides, and foliar fertilizers; uses TransMaxx technology with crop health benefits.
- Kmend Highly compatible potassium product that blends with most fertilizers; corrects or prevents potassium and sulfur deficiencies.
- Komplete New lower-salt alternative to Potassium Thio-sulfate that uses carbon encapsulation to safen and enhance availability of potassium, nitrogen, and sulfur.
- Micro Pak Specific blend of micronutrients that targets early plant vigor, nutrition, and health; formulated for pre-plant and at-planting applications.
- NitroGuard Nitrogen stabilizer powered by NitroTek technology that stabilizes nitrogen and potassium by encapsulating them in carbon, reducing volatilization, leaching, and tie-up.
- Nutri Tek Uses TransMaxx technology to systematically move nutrients through the plant; delivers seven micronutrients in a foliar application to boost plant health.
- Concept N25B Slow-release nitrogen with boron formulated to foliar feed plants for weeks, with StressTek technology added to increase stress tolerance.
- Concept Z9 EDTA chelated 9% zinc product; zinc is critical to early development and season-long plant health.
- Residue RX Powered by BioTek; consortium of bacteria and fungi that turn crop residue into organic matter and kickstart soil biology.
- Salt X Salt mitigation solution using BioTek and PeneTek technologies; designed to mitigate salt concentrations in soils.
- Soil Revive Uses BioTek and PeneTek technology to bring abused soils back to life; delivers beneficial microbes to increase soil health and reduces compaction.
- Starter 20/20 Starter fertilizer that makes nutrients more available for plant uptake by breaking down organic material for easier absorption through cell walls.
- Total Cal Soil-applied calcium that helps make a nitrogen program more efficient.
- Total Phos Premium starter fertilizer offering a 50/50 blend of ortho and poly phosphorus for availability during critical early growth stages.
- VermiBoost Proprietary blend of parent materials found in worm castings, designed to increase nutrient availability, mitigate stress, and enhance soil tilth.
- BioRice Consortium of microbes that thrive in flooded, non-oxygenated conditions, allowing nutrients to be available in rice paddies.
- Buncha Bugs DF Microbial blend with RootTek technology providing a food source for microbes in soil.
- Customized full-season fertility programming (soil testing + agronomist-led fertility design) Service in which Concept AgriTek agronomists conduct soil testing and design a personalized fertility program combining the company's biological, foliar, and nutrient-efficiency products across seed treatment, planting, foliar, and full-season stages, delivered to commercial growers directly or via dealers.
Quantifiable outcome
- World record non-irrigated soybean yield of 154.98 bushels per acre achieved using combined biological, foliar, and nutrient-efficiency program
Companies that use Concept AgriTek
Customer profileNamed customers1 record
Segments3 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
Concept AgriTek technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature9 records
Concept AgriTek partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.
- Locus AgriculturecoreLocus Agriculture partnered with Concept AgriTek and AgroTech USA to help grower Chris Weaver achieve a world record non-irrigated soybean yield of 154.98 bushels per acre. Locus contributed Rhizolizer biologicals to the combined biological, foliar, and nutrient-efficiency program.
- AgroTech USAcoreAgroTech USA partnered with Concept AgriTek and Locus Agriculture to set the world record for non-irrigated soybean yield. AgroTech contributed NutriCharge phosphorus-efficiency technology to the program that combined biological, foliar, and nutrient-efficiency solutions.
Scale indicators1 record
Recent moves5 records
Concept AgriTek competitors and assessment
Company assessmentEmerging players
- AgBiome: AgBiome develops biological crop protection and fertility products from microbial libraries, competing in the same biologics-for-agriculture category as Concept AgriTek's BioTek platform, though with a stronger emphasis on crop protection rather than nutrition.
- Holganix: Holganix markets biological soil and plant nutrition products with proprietary microbial blends, competing with Concept AgriTek's BioTek and VermiTek platforms in the soil-microbiome category, primarily into turf and agriculture end markets.
- NewLeaf Symbiotics: NewLeaf Symbiotics commercializes pink pigmented facultative methylotrophs (PPFMs) as biological inputs for row crops — a partial overlap with Concept AgriTek's BioTek and RootTek biological offerings targeting similar soybean and corn customers.
Direct peers
- Cytozyme: Cytozyme produces specialty crop nutrition and biological products for row crops and specialty crops through a dealer channel, with overlapping foliar and soil-applied fertility solutions positioned similarly to Concept AgriTek's full-season portfolio.
- Pivot Bio: Pivot Bio produces microbial nitrogen-fixing products for corn and other row crops, competing in the same biological / nitrogen-stabilization category as Concept AgriTek's BioTek and NitroTek platforms, with a similar dealer-led distribution model into commercial growers.
- Sound Agriculture: Sound Agriculture sells biological and nutrient-efficiency products (e.g., Source for nitrogen efficiency) into row crop and specialty crop markets through dealer and direct channels — directly overlapping with Concept AgriTek's BioTek and NitroTek offerings and dealer-led GTM motion.
- Locus Agriculture: Locus Agriculture is a biologicals company whose Rhizolizer products were used alongside Concept AgriTek's portfolio in the world-record soybean yield. It directly competes in the soil-microbe and biological fertility space with overlapping row-crop customers.
- AgroTech USA: AgroTech USA (makers of NutriCharge phosphorus-efficiency technology) is a direct collaborator and competitor in the nutrient-efficiency category, selling adjacent products to the same row-crop growers through similar dealer channels.
Broad incumbents
- Verdesian Life Sciences: Verdesian (now part of AMVAC/Centuro) is a larger specialty crop nutrition and biologicals company selling nitrogen stabilizers and plant health products into row and specialty crops — broader portfolio and deeper dealer relationships than Concept AgriTek, but overlapping product mechanisms.
- Marrone Bio Innovations: Marrone Bio (now part of Bioceres Crop Solutions) is a larger biologicals company selling biocontrol and plant health products into specialty and row crops — broader product line and listing on public markets, but overlapping with Concept AgriTek's biological positioning.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
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Concept AgriTek leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles1 record
Concept AgriTek funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Concept AgriTek M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Concept AgriTek
What does Concept AgriTek do?
Concept AgriTek manufactures and sells a portfolio of proprietary biological products, foliar fertilizers, seed treatments, and full-season crop nutrition solutions for commercial agriculture, organized by application stage (seed treatment, planting, foliar, full season) and by commodity (corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, cotton, hay, potatoes, peanuts, sugarcane, turf). The company combines agronomy, biology, and chemistry with nine proprietary technology platforms (BioTek, NitroTek, PeneTek, RootTek, StressTek, TransMaxx, VermiTek, AminoTek, Flavonoid) and delivers customized fertility programming built on individual soil testing, sold through a dealer network and direct-to-grower agronomist consultations across the U.S. Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast.
Is Concept AgriTek a public or private company?
Concept AgriTek is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.
When was Concept AgriTek founded?
Concept AgriTek was founded in 2010. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is Concept AgriTek based?
Concept AgriTek is headquartered in Charleston, United States, in the North America region.
How does Concept AgriTek make money?
One revenue line is on record: agricultural Fertilizer and Biological Products.
Who are Concept AgriTek's main competitors?
Emerging players on record are AgBiome, Holganix and NewLeaf Symbiotics. Direct peers are Cytozyme, Pivot Bio, Sound Agriculture, Locus Agriculture and AgroTech USA. Broad incumbents are Verdesian Life Sciences and Marrone Bio Innovations.
Does Concept AgriTek have an API?
No public API is recorded for Concept AgriTek.
What industry is Concept AgriTek in?
Concept AgriTek's product category is Agricultural Fertilizers and Biological Crop Inputs. Its primary akta.pro industry code is AFABACAC, Foliar Fertilizers & Foliar Nutrition Programs, with a secondary code of AFABAJAH, Agronomy Advisory & Field Services (Retailer-Affiliated). Its NAICS code is 3253 and its SIC code is 2870.