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VIDEO: There’s more than one way to lose nitrogen from your soil

By Greg Berg February 10, 2025

With fertilizer being one of the most expensive crop inputs to help reach your yields, making sure it stays put for your plants to take it up is essential. Unfortunately, this is not always as easy as it sounds. At Manitoba Ag Days last month, Bryce Geisel, senior agronomist with Koch Agronomic Services, offered a

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U.S. Fertilizer group calls for tariff exemption

Canadian and American fertilizer groups oppose tariffs

By Jonah Grignon February 4, 2025

Fertilizer industry representatives on both sides of the border are upset with U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, which have recently been postponed.

Nutrien’s potash mine at Allan, Sask., has been operating since 1968. PHOTO: SEAN PRATT

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Nutrien says U.S. farmers likely to bear tariff costs

The United States imports over 80 per cent of their potash from Canada

By Janelle Rudolph February 3, 2025

Nutrien, the world’s largest potash producer, says U.S. farmers will face higher costs if tariffs are put in place.

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Zinc fertilizer on road for improvements

Australian research looks for ways to make zinc and phosphate play nice

By Janelle Rudolph January 22, 2025

Crops need more zinc, but negative interactions with other fertilizer makes applying it tricky. Research out of Australia might have the answer.

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On-farm research gives local canola insights for 2024

From fertilizer to canola seeding rates, here’s the latest on-farm canola research data, specific to Manitoba

By Miranda Leybourne January 7, 2025

From fertilizer questions to canola seeding rates, here’s the latest on-farm canola research data, specific to Manitoba.

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Winter cold doesn’t stop all fertilizer emissions, new research shows

New research shows the Prairie deep freeze slows, but does not stop, nitrogen emissions

By Janelle Rudolph December 17, 2024

Fall fertilizer doesn’t emit nitrogen over winter, right? Wrong, according to new research: biological activity and nitrogen emissions slow, but don’t stop.

FuelPositive’s green ammonia plant installation on R & L Acres near Sperling, Man.

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VIDEO: The dollars and sense of on-farm fertilizer

By Robert Arnason December 13, 2024

SPERLING, Man. — The retail price of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer was about $1,100 per ton this summer in Western Canada. That number comes from Curtis Hiebert, who farms near Sperling, Man. Hiebert now has a green ammonia production system on his farm, which has a capacity of 100 tons of ammonia per year. Related stories:

Samples are dug for fall soil testing at the Agritruth home site east of Brandon.

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Boost your fall soil sampling game

Farmers urged to expand soil testing regimen with multiple sub-samples, deeper samples and including unproductive field acres

By Jeff Melchior October 24, 2024

Farmers urged to expand soil testing regimen with multiple sub-samples, deeper samples and including unproductive field acres.

A dragline operator moves around phosphate rocks while mining at Mosaic’s South Fort Meade Mine in Fort Meade, Florida January 13, 2010./File Photo

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Mosaic expects Florida fertilizer facilities to return to full production soon

By Reuters October 15, 2024

Fertilizer maker Mosaic Co said on Monday that its Florida facilities are expected to return to full production capacity over the coming days after being idled due to Hurricane Milton.

FILE PHOTO: A dragline operator moves around phosphate rocks while mining at Mosaic’s South Fort Meade Mine in Fort Meade, Florida January 13, 2010./File Photo

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Mosaic says fertilizer waste facility’s water entered Tampa Bay after Hurricane Milton

Industrial byproduct phosphogypsum is known to emit cancer-causing radioactive gas

By Reuters, Tom Polansek October 11, 2024

Mosaic Co said on Friday that water supporting the chemical company's storage of a waste byproduct from fertilizer manufacturing in Florida probably made its way into Tampa Bay following a downpour from Hurricane Milton.

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U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle futures climb on post-Thanksgiving trade

U.S. grains: Corn futures set June high on US export demand

California researchers create nitrogen-fixing wheat

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VIDEO: There’s more than one way to lose nitrogen from your soil

U.S. Fertilizer group calls for tariff exemption

Nutrien says U.S. farmers likely to bear tariff costs

Zinc fertilizer on road for improvements

On-farm research gives local canola insights for 2024

Winter cold doesn’t stop all fertilizer emissions, new research shows

VIDEO: The dollars and sense of on-farm fertilizer

Boost your fall soil sampling game

Mosaic expects Florida fertilizer facilities to return to full production soon

Mosaic says fertilizer waste facility’s water entered Tampa Bay after Hurricane Milton

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