Fertilizer
Here’s an overview of some developments that have changed products to be not your father’s fertilizer.
Ukraine is a key player in global agriculture, and how these conflicts play out will have international impacts.
According to Columbia University, 90% of the world’s mined phosphate is used as fertilizer in ag. Morocco supplies 34% of the world’s traded phosphate rock, but this dynamic could change with Norge Mining’s discovery.
Flattened corn can often recover, stand and produce decent yields. Soybeans can shake off a storm and flourish, but beware spider mites in the next 10 days if temperatures stay 85-plus degrees with low humidity.
Many Midwest farmers are seeing their corn crop struggle from compaction, nutrient deficiencies and herbicide carryover. Some of these issues can be addressed yet this season.
Ken Ferrie is seeing potassium deficiency in corn this season because of dry soil conditions. It’s easy to confuse with a nitrogen deficiency and even the carbon penalty and ugly corn syndrome.
If you’re aiming for a 200-bu. corn crop this season, be aware it will need at least 34 pounds of sulfur per acre.
While fertilizer prices are off March lows, they are still from 45% to 60% lower than this time last year, depending on the nutrient or product.
As Ontario, Canada farmer Julie Maw scouts her wheat fields, it’s the moment of truth for the record number of acres planted across the province this year.