I get this question a lot. My response attempts to clarify the point and reposition the question with a more appropriate one.
The answer is that it is not better for the plant; plants don't care how the nutrients were created and the nutritional value of produce does not change based on an organic fertilizer or a synthetic one. The better question is "Is the yard getting the nutrients necessary to be healthy?"
Organic fertilizer (like cow manure or fish emulsion) offers the same nutritional value to plants as do synthetic fertilizer (like urea) except that synthetic fertilizers are in a form that is immediately usable by the plant while organic fertilizer must be processed by small organisms in the soil before it becomes usable by plants.
Virid can deliver either organic fertilizer or synthetic fertilizer through its system. Virid optimizes use of synthetic fertilizer because it does not apply highly concentrated fertilizer during the heat of the day. We apply small amounts of nutrients, with water, during the cooler periods of the day when the pores of plant leaves are open and naturally apt to absorb nutrients. Virid injects 1 to 3 milli-Liters of nutrient solution per minute, based on sprinkler zone flow-rates. In order to get the same nutritional content Virid would have to triple the amount of organic fertilizer injected into the sprinkler system.
Perhaps the real concern is human (and pet) safety. We don't want to expose ourselves, our kids and our pets to a bunch of toxic chemicals. Virid feeds plants what then can use right away, without having to feed them a month's worth all at once. There is little to no Nitrogen (one of the main components in fertilizer) left to be absorbed by people or our pets, particularly when it starts out approximating the EPA standards for drinking water.
Organic fertilizer, on the other hand, is far less nutrient dense. It takes three times as much organic fertilizer to match the synthetic blend Virid uses. Think about what that means. Do you want to sit in a lawn full of cow manure? Fish emulsion? Or perhaps play in a lawn filled with pellets containing organic fertilizer that release it gradually over time so the pellets remain in the yard for a month or longer? Remember, just because something is organic does not mean we want to play in it, breath it, smell it or injest it.
Virid thinks both have their place and we should choose what is best for the plant (they don't care so long as they get fed the right amount, regularly) and what is best for the people who live in and around and on the plants. Organic and synthetic fertilizers; they both have their place in the yard.