Fertilizer
With a focus on reducing environmental effects from nitrogen and phosphorous while maintaining or increasing crop yields, contestants were to formulate a concept and submit within a two-month window.
With more eyes on sustainability and conservation, farmers in the Midwest should consider environmentally and pocketbook-friendly options—before it becomes regulated.
By sharing his agronomic practices with fellow farmers, Swartz helps them identify practical, cost-effective ways they can enhance conservation stewardship on their respective operations.
There doesn’t appear to be much price relief on the horizon. Product availability could be limited as well, based on what China and Europe are experiencing.
The fertilizer industry is swarmed with Black Swan events. From the impacts of Hurricane Ida to political issues entangled in a cobweb of production slowdowns in Europe and China, prices could surpass 2008 highs.
One problem is soil temperature related while the other occurs at a specific growth stage. Both can take a bite out of bushels available at harvest.
If the Michigan project continues on pace, the company would break ground this fall with the facility being completed in the next three years.
Harnessed to six-row, alternating strips of corn and soybeans, Jim Nichols boomed a 292 bu. yield average. Standing on the edge of his farmland, Nichols points upward at a carbon secret: His corn crop comes from the sky.
In 1946 Yara imported its first products into the U.S.—calcium nitrate into a port in California—and the company says its footprint has not only grown but evolved in the 75 years since.
“Should I use a nitrogen stabilizer?” Simple question, but the answer is complex.
Questions about crop response and yield increase.
When farmland draws a premium, you’d expect the soil to be in good shape, right? More landowners are considering fertility clauses in their farm leases to ensure tenants don’t suck the soil dry.
What you did this past fall, what you’re doing this spring and the plans you’re making for the summer will make a huge difference in the combine at the end of the year.
By now, you’re familiar with the idea of the 4 Rs of nitrogen. Is it worth the hype? Test plots indicate these factors, combined with specific hybrid characteristics can have huge yield implications.
This week’s fertilizer price action has states in the southwestern corner of our survey area lower as areas farther north continue to firm ahead of spring applications.
Urea and UAN32% favored a weaker tone this week as the rest of the nitrogen segment firmed.
Gains tallied $0.00 to Declines’ $42.87 in the regional averages.
The lifting of economic sanctions against Iran has been discussed in the oil sector, but Iran also has designs on increasing its national fertilizer production with the aim of becoming fertilizer self-sufficient. It has
Anhydrous $129.80 below year-ago pricing -- lower $2.64/st this week at $583.96. Urea $100.36 below the same time last year -- lower $2.04/st this week to $371.28. UAN28% is $60.98 below year-ago -- higher 41 cent
P&K was lower on the week. DAP $93.73 below year-ago pricing -- lower $5.12/st on the week to $489.33/st. MAP $99.17 below year-ago -- lower $9.89/st this week to $496.13/st. Potash $116.17 below year-ago -
P&K was lower on the week. DAP $86.65 below year-ago pricing -- lower $3.92/st on the week to $494.44/st. MAP $88.61 below year-ago -- lower $6.15/st this week to $506.01/st. Potash $109.25 below year-ago -
I was fiddling around with my charts this week and I noticed something very interesting in potash. When compared to expected new-crop revenue, there have been a number of points at which potash seems to have indicated to
Anhydrous $154.44 below year-ago pricing -- higher 8 cents/st this week at $562.80. Urea $100.44 below the same time last year -- higher 78 cents/st this week to $364.55. UAN28% is $63.87 below year-ago -- lower 2
In wake of Thursday’s Prospective Plantings report, I want to make a suggestion here that elicited profanity from Chip Flory that nearly took the paint of the walls. Corn acreage in particular shocked market bulls by
P&KToday: Seasonal Demand Supports Price P&K were higher on the week. DAP $98.16 below year-ago pricing -- higher $2.16/st on the week to $483.98/st. MAP $97.03 below year-ago -- higher $1.24/st this w