Fertilizer
In one bizarre blink, guano ruled U.S. agriculture and the world.
Residue might hamper uptake, surface cover slows soil warming and most cover crops raise the carbon penalty. Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie shares timing and placement tips for phosphorus, sulfur and nitrogen.
In the study, Iowa farmers, custom operators and farm managers shared their average pricing for common agricultural services such as tillage, spraying and fertilizer application.
Brian Ray is confident his soybeans will yield more this season, thanks to the use of 100 lb/A of ammonium sulfate preplant applied. He and his retailer, Brent Peters, anticipate a 4 bu/A average increase or higher.
Quickshot is Helena’s newest entrant in the field, which provides seed fluency in addition to crop nutrient package. For 2024, it’s available in limited quantities.
A Minnesota grower asks Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist, how to improve upon the soil fertility on 90 acres he is renting for the first time this year.
For the first time in memory, market power by the owners of U.S. and global fertilizer production is drawing policymaker scrutiny. U.S. four-firm concentration ratios exceed 60 percent in all three markets (N,P, and K).
Through the Frontier Fields program, a select group of farmers will document their experiences with a biological product over the course of a year.
The practices used during the 2024 growing season will have a direct impact on the ability to take advantage of these incentives. Mitchell Hora of Continuum Ag shares what you need to know.
Nitricity is on a quest to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions via its innovative natural liquid fertilizer manufacturing process. The technology represents a major disruption to the global fertilizer market.
Experts are watching global dynamics to understand the input market’s longer-term outlook in the U.S. Among their top concerns are geopolitics, weather and low supply.
Before heading to the field to apply anhydrous, firm up what crop you’re going to plant. Growers have been kicking around the idea of going beans-on-beans, given the markets. But anhydrous essentially ties you to corn.
The new safety notice pertains to nurse tanks with manufacture dates between Jan. 1, 2007, and Dec. 31, 2011, by AWT at their plant in Fremont, Ohio.
ICIS senior fertilizer editor Mark Milam shares that while the fertilizer market appears to be in good shape at the moment, there are a couple of important trends moving forward this spring.
The survey uses records from ag retailers to measure the use of cover crops, nutrient management and conservation tillage and no-till by Iowa growers.
Johnnie Roberts, CPDA director of application – adjuvant chemistry, shares a solution to many of the common issues spray drone applicators face.
The project will more than double the footprint of SurePoint’s existing facility.
RhizoSorb is being marketed at MAP 2.0
From a bottle hunter and a pair of plows crafted by John Deere himself to record yields and the return of monster buck antlers, enjoy some of the fan favorites on AgWeb from the past year.
Virginia farmer David Hula is known for growing big yields and he’s doing so once again. He won the 2023 NCA National Corn Yield Contest with a new record yield, beating his previous world record set in 2019.
The Fertilizer Research Act has been introduced by three senators to require USDA to study competition and trends in the fertilizer market.
We asked some of our previous Top Producer of the Year awardees to share a bit about what’s happening on their farming operations — looking at both the past year and out on the horizon.
“In this market, there’s a lot of risk from the farm gates to the retail side. So more conversation goes along way this year,” Josh Linville says.
The team at Heartland Ag Systems offers their advice for keeping fertilizer spreaders running in top shape.
If you value the benefits starter fertilizer offers, you might like the performance of a starter fertilizer relay system even more. Farm Journal Test Plot data show a relay system + 2x2 placement = $36 per acre ROI.
With organic matter above 3.5%, do you need to worry about applying sulfur? Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal field agronomist, is seeing financially positive responses. He shares several sulfur options to consider.
For the sixth year, Farm Journal has conducted a survey to gauge farmer use of online crop input purchasing tools. Here’s what we found.
“If we don’t engage well digitally, we’re just another white pickup,” says K.C. Graner, CFS senior vice president.
According to the team at Heartland Ag Solutions, taking the time now to prep equipment for spring is vital.
Moisture availability is one of the biggies to check out, says Ken Ferrie. He also details some upcoming agronomic events, like his Beyond The Basics five-part webinar series and the virtual Corn & Soybean College.