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Nutrien’s head office building in Saskatoon. (Liam O’Connor photo)
Crops, Markets

Nutrien to further boost potash output amid global shortage

Company will also speed up nitrogen capacity boosts

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Reuters — Nutrien, the world’s largest fertilizer producer, said Thursday it will increase its Canadian potash production by 20 per cent to an annual 18 million tonnes by 2025, helping to address tight supplies that have contributed to a global food shortage. Potash prices have soared since the West imposed sanctions against Russia for Moscow’s
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Micronutrient fertilizer to fully commercialize

The announced Saskatchewan facility will be the first major manufacturing facility for Soileos

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Three years ago, startup Lucent BioSciences was producing one kilogram a day of its novel micronutrient fertilizer Soileos — drawn from crop byproduct like pea or lentil hulls. Once a recently announced manufacturing plant in Rosetown, Sask., goes online, it will be churning out upwards of 6,500 tonnes a year.  The $19-million project, supported by
File photo of Black Sea port facilities at Odesa, Ukraine. (Leskas/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

U.N. aid chief in Moscow to discuss Ukraine grain exports

Russia says will guarantee grain vessels' safety

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Reuters — U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths is in Moscow on Thursday and Friday to discuss clearing the way for exports of grain and other food from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, a U.N. spokesperson said. Griffiths will meet Russian officials days after another senior U.N. official, Rebecca Grynspan, had “constructive” talks in Moscow with Russian
File photo of barley being loaded for export at the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv, Ukraine on July 9, 2013. (Photo: Reuters/Vincent Mundy)
Crops, Markets

U.N. had ‘constructive’ talks in Moscow on Russian grain, fertilizer exports

U.S. could offer 'comfort letters' to shippers, insurers

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United Nations | Reuters — A senior U.N. official had “constructive discussions” in Moscow with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on facilitating Russian grain and fertilizer exports to global markets, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. The U.N. official, Rebecca Grynspan, is now in Washington for talks on the same issue “with
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Crops

No bets on carry-over nitrogen

Recent sampling shows there's less residual nitrogen from last year’s drought in the top six inches of the soil, but much of it may still be available between six and 24 inches

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After a season of drought followed by a disappointing harvest, many farmers saw a silver lining in the fact that the conditions left them with a significant amount of residual nitrogen — as much as four times the normal levels in some areas. It was good news at a time when input costs, including fertilizer,
Yara’s fertilizer terminal at Stockton, California. (Sebastian Braum photo, Yara.com)
Crops

Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Sanctions cut global fertilizer supply 15 per cent, company says

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Davos, Switzerland | Reuters — Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara says donors urgently need to close the U.N.’s $10 billion food programme funding gap to avoid a catastrophe as sanctions on Russian fertilizers and Ukraine’s grain export problems have created an extreme global shock. “The world has realized that food can be a weapon and it
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Crops

Understanding where your nitrogen is

Excess nitrates from last fall are disappearing, but more stable ammonium applications are likely still there

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Wet conditions are causing a lot of concern over what’s happening with nitrogen in those sodden soils this spring. John Heard, soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and Rural Development, told the weekly Crop Talk webinar May 11 that this unusual year is causing farmers to contact him with a couple of areas of concern.
Ottawa is advocating 4R as a way to cut fertilizer emissions, but some say the feds need to consult farmers more on the topic, 
since many are already using these techniques.
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Ottawa’s bid to cut fertilizer emissions being rushed, say farm groups

Consultation is too short and government reduction plan hasn’t been thought out, say cereal groups

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Time is running out for producers hoping to pitch in on Ottawa’s plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use by 30 per cent. But the June 3 deadline for comments is unfair given seeding is just getting underway, say Alberta’s wheat and barley commissions. “Farmers tend to do seeding right now,” said Shannon
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a “Global Food Security Call to Action” meeting of foreign ministers at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 18, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)
Crops

U.N. chief in talks on restoring Ukraine grain exports

Contact made amid global food crisis

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United Nations | Reuters — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that he is in “intense contact” with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States and the European Union in an effort to restore Ukrainian grain export as a global food crisis worsens. “I am hopeful, but there is still a way to go,” said

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