Greg Schilling

Greg Schilling

Asido Partner

Greg Schilling has worked with biologicals for almost two decades and is currently vice president of Back to Nature, Inc. and South Plains Compost, Inc., family businesses for more than 45 years. In addition to composting, he farms convention and organic cotton and peanuts and runs a cow/calf operation.

Asido founder, the late Jim Pruitt, was the first customer of the Back to Nature line. Years later, when Jim bought CXI, the Schilling family was the first customer to use Waste Away as the inoculate in their compost. 

“For our row crop or agronomics side, we apply the N-Texx Edge product before the planting of each crop,” Greg says. “That product contains a lot of degrading bacteria, so it’s very good at breaking down fertilizer elements into an organic or usable form.”

Greg likes to tell the story of how he became a believer in Asido’s biological products by trying them out himself.

“The first farm we tested was one my dad and his uncle owned together. We wanted to put it back into grass. but the water quality was so poor that the soil had sealed off into a hard crust at the top, preventing absorption. They tried all kinds of ways to plow it or grow different cover crops with no luck. Then we decided to test the microbial product. It took two years, but the change was amazing! Trying to walk on the soil now, I would sink down to about my mid-calf. I mean, it opened that ground up that much!”

Greg graduated from Texas Tech University with degrees in animal science and education. He was a member of the 1999 National Champion Texas Tech Meats Judging Team. Greg lives in Slaton, Texas, with his wife, Lacy, and their three children: Kelsea, Grant and Koleson. He has been a member of the Slaton ISD Board for 12 years and is a past member of the Peoples Bank Business Advisory Board.

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