Company: Anuvia Plant Nutrients - Winter Garden, FL
Nomination Submitted by: Cerconebrown Company
Company Description: Anuvia Plant Nutrients manufactures high-efficiency, sustainable bio-based fertilizers for the agriculture, turf, and lawncare industries. Located in Winter Garden, Florida, the company developed and uses a unique technology that not only optimizes nutrient availability and efficiency for plants, but also improves soil health, preserves natural resources, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Female Executive of the Year – Business Products –11 to 2,500 Employees
 Nomination Title: Amy Yoder, CEO
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Anuvia recently announced a significant round of new funding allowing it to rapidly scale U.S. production of its bio-based fertilizer. With consumers, regulators, and the public pushing for more sustainable food production methods, Anuvia is focused on rapidly increasing manufacturing capacity of its field-ready bio-based plant nutrient system. Anuvia’s SymTRX is already in commercial use on U.S. farms, with use expected to reach 20 million acres by 2025.
Biologicals are the future for sustainable agriculture and Amy has led her team in negotiating a partnership with one of the world’s largest companies in the sector, Novozymes, the world leader in biological solutions. The collaboration with Novozymes will bring advanced technology to plant nutrition by marrying Novozymes microbial solutions to Anuvia’s sustainable bio-based products and proprietary delivery system. This technology will further increase yield and ROI at no incremental cost to the grower while reducing nutrient loss and farming’s environmental footprint.
Additionally, Amy led the key expansion of Anuvia’s environmentally friendly facility in response to increased demand for Anuvia's biobased sustainable and environmentally friendly plant nutrients. This new facility created more than 135 new jobs with an average salary of $70,000 and allowed Anuvia to increase production capacity to up to 1.2 million tons (from 50,000 tons annually). This is enough to feed 20 million acres of crops and would have the effect of removing 500,000 cars from the road in perpetuity – a huge transformation for our country and our world.
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During her tenure, Anuvia has been recognized by myriad organizations, including:
- 2022 Gold Stevie® Award winner in the Food and Beverage Company of the Year category for the 20th Annual American Business Awards®. This recognition showcases the impact of how Anuvia’s technology helps commercial agriculture continue to adopt more sustainable practices.
- Fast Company, as one of the nation's 16 inaugural "Next Big Things in Tech," showcasing the impact Anuvia is making on commercial agriculture's growing adoption of profitable, sustainable practice.
- Financial Times, as Anuvia one of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2022
- 2021 SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement & Leadership) Awards, which celebrates leadership, transparency and commitment to sustainable business practices. This is testament to how Anuvia is driving sustainability in agriculture and helping farmers make a meaningful impact.
- “Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Award,” as a business that is helping shift society to a more sustainable and equitable future. A panel of eminent Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 4,000 entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, and more.
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Amy is a changemaker in the male-dominated world of commercial agriculture. A sixth-generation farmer and proven leader, Amy spearheads Anuvia's charge to sustainably feed a growing population while fighting climate change. She has raised $190 million for the company in less than 24 months. Amy was also recently recognized as one of Orlando Business Journal’s 2022 Women Who Mean Business, inspiring others to make an impact. After joining Anuvia in 2015, Amy immediately recognized how the company's technology (still in development at the time) could be applied to mainstream agriculture by changing the way crops are nourished. Amy has coupled her personal drive to preserve the earth with her understanding of the financial realities of the agriculture industry to form her strategy for Anuvia.
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Agriculture is facing unprecedented supply chain disruptions which are pushing fertilizer prices to record highs, affecting prices from field to table. There has never been a greater need for sustainable bio-based fertilizer such as Anuvia's. While it can take nature up to two years to convert manure into usable nutrients, Anuvia’s patented technology can achieve the same feat in just minutes. By simply swapping traditional synthetic fertilizer for Anuvia’s bio-based nutrients, commercial growers can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 32%. What’s more, Anuvia’s products significantly increase yield while also improving long-term soil health. Additionally, Anuvia's production is entirely U.S.-based, ensuring supply-chain security for North American growers.
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