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Farmers ask U.S. Justice Department to probe fertilizer price spikes

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Reuters — Farmers have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether recent spikes in fertilizer prices are attributable to market manipulation by fertilizer companies, according to a letter sent Wednesday by the Family Farm Action Alliance. The group, which has more than 6,000 farmer and rural members, alleges fertilizer companies are setting prices
An ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer plant in Russia. (Saoirse_2010/iStock/Getty Images)
Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Why so high?

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When the goal is creating nitrogen fertilizer, the first thing you need to start with is a lot of natural gas. Everyone understands natural gas is one of the largest inputs — most estimates say about 70 per cent of the price you pay for nitrogen can be traced back to natural gas prices. But
CF Industries’ UAN plant at Donaldsonville in Louisiana. The company also makes UAN at plants in Ontario, Iowa and Oklahoma. (Thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com)
Crops, Markets

Fertilizer shortage may lead to spring scramble

'It's next year's prices I'm worried about'

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Reuters — A global shortage of nitrogen fertilizer is driving prices to record levels, prompting North America’s farmers to delay purchases and raising the risk of a spring scramble to apply the crop nutrient before planting season. The Texas Arctic Blast in February and Hurricane Ida in August disrupted U.S. fertilizer production. Then, prices of
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Nitrogen shortage threatens yields: CF Industries

Shortages span the globe and could cut crop production next season

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Reuters – A shortage of nitrogen fertilizer due to soaring natural gas prices is threatening to reduce global crop yields next year, CF Industries, a major producer of the crop nutrient, said. European gas prices have jumped amid high demand, as economies recover from the pandemic and with below-average gas storage levels at the start
The concept of soil as a living organism is an idea we’re only just beginning to understand, says Maria DeRosa, a professor at Carleton University.
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When the plant speaks, nutrients listen

A Canadian researcher may have found a radically new way to fertilize crops

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Glacier FarmMedia – It sounds like science fiction, but some day there may be a fertilizer that only activates once the plant tells it to.  That’s an oversimplification, but it’s the premise behind a researcher’s prototype for a “smart” fertilizer which uses a unique chemical to “listen” to calls for nutrients from the plant roots.
Markets, News

Supply fears spark fertilizer buying rush by French farmers: Yara

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Farmers in France have stepped up fertilizer purchases this month amid fears of shortages as they wrestle with mounting costs that could affect next year’s harvests, the French unit of fertilizer group Yara said. Soaring gas prices have unsettled nitrogen fertilizer markets that rely on gas as an input, leading manufacturers including Yara to reduce
Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Emissions report self-serving and built on false assumptions

Reductions won’t happen in a vacuum and producers will adapt their production systems

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In late September, Fertilizer Canada and Meyers Norris Penny (MNP) released their report Implications of a Total Emissions Reduction Target on Fertilizer. That report is a response to the December 2020 federal government announcement that it would “set a national emission reduction target (for 2030) of 30 per cent below 2020 levels from fertilizers and
Granulated fertilizer can volatilize until it’s washed into the soil profile by rainfall.
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Urease inhibitors can make nitrogen more efficient

Koch ups the ante with its next-generation nitrogen stabilizer, ANVOL

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As soon as urea fertilizer goes down in your field, it begins to disappear, broken down into ammonia gas by the enzyme urease and lost to the atmosphere through a process known as volatilization. Because urease is a byproduct of the decomposition of organic matter, all soils, wherever you are in the world, contain the
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Dangerous and inaccurate image

A recent photo in this publication sent the wrong message to all

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In a recent issue there was an article titled “Fertilizer prices climb sky high alongside commodity prices.” The article content may be good but I haven’t read it yet. I got stopped at the DANGEROUS photo of the anhydrous ammonia tanks that you purchased from Getty Images. This image sends all the wrong messages to

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