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Fertigation aims to maximize tuber production over vegetative growth.

Setting up fertigation in potato crops for success

Manitoba farmers show how they’ve made the irrigation-fertilization marriage work

By Gord Leathers March 7, 2024

Potato producer Sheldon Wiebe, who farms near MacGregor, can wax poetic about how production has evolved on his operation, J.P. Wiebe Ltd., since its inception in the mid 1960s. Like other Manitoba potato farmers, the introduction of irrigation is part of that story, but today the practice is about more than just water. Today, the

Insect frass is derived from the excrement, exoskeletons and discarded feed materials. Shown here is cricket frass produced in Aspire’s London, Ont. cricket rearing facility. Photo: SureSource Agronomy

Ontario company launches first-in-Canada biofertilizer made from cricket frass

SureSource Commodities debuted pelleted formulation at Guelph Organic Conference

By GFM Network News, Stew Slater February 28, 2024

SureSource Agronomy is rolling out a line of crop nutrient products derived from the excrement, exoskeletons and discarded feed materials of crickets.

Variable rate fertilizer being applied during seeding at Steckler Farm in Alberta in 2022. Photo: Courtesy Olds College of Agriculture and Technology

Canada pledges funds for efficient fertilizer research

Joining the Efficient Fertilizer Consortium gives Canada chance to influence research strategies, feds say

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News January 31, 2024

Canada will join the U.S., U.K., and others in a group dedicated to advancing efficient and novel fertilizers, the federal government announced today.

News

Buy urea sooner than later, says trader

Farmers told to lock in supply in coming weeks

By Robert Arnason January 29, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – The global urea market is in a period of mixed signals. Buyers in Australia and Southeast Asia made purchases in early January, putting upward pressure on prices. Plus, stocks in North America are relatively low, which is also supportive. On the other side of the coin, China may delay exports until the

Crops

FCC announces new 4R incentive

The program is open to FCC customers who use AgExpert platform

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News January 10, 2024

FCC announced the new Sustainability Incentive Program at the Western Canadian Crop Production Show in Saskatoon. The program is open to FCC customers who put a 4R nutrient management plan in place, record production activities through AgExpert Field, and have their 4R practices verified by a 4R designated agronomist.

Scientific equipment in a hybrid poplar plantation in northern Alberta allows researchers to measure greenhouse gas emission rates along with soil and plant conditions without undue disruption.

News

Building a better fertilizer from wood waste

Fertilizer from pulp mill byproduct has worked in the forestry industry, but would need research before applying it to ag

By Jeff Melchior January 3, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – A biosolid-based fertilizer that has improved soil and reduced greenhouse gas emissions in the forestry sector could, with research, be useful for agriculture, according to one University of Alberta professor. Scott Chang’s research combined pulp mill waste with conventional fertilizer to support growth of hybrid poplar trees in northern Alberta. The idea

Feds ask for public input on standards for municipal waste to be used for fertilizer

Municipal biosolids contain chemicals that don’t degrade, are toxic to humans, environment

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News December 28, 2023

The federal government is asking for public input as it prepares to implement interim rules for municipal wastes imported into Canada or sold as fertilizer.

Drought-affected corn in Brazil in 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Diego Vara)

Markets

Brazilian farmers slow fertilizer buys as drought dampens corn-planting plans

Fertilizer companies are already dealing with lower profits as prices sag

By Ana Mano, GFM Network News, Reuters, Rod Nickel, Sourasis Bose December 18, 2023

Brazil's drought is causing farmers there to delay fertilizer purchases for their upcoming corn-planting season, denting sales for global fertilizer suppliers in the world's top corn-exporting country, executives told Reuters.

Markets, News

Russia eyes eastern trade routes

By Olzhas Auyezov, Tamara Vaal November 16, 2023

Reuters – Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the development of wheat and fertilizer cargo transport routes in Asia during a visit to Kazakhstan Nov. 9 as Moscow looks for export routes due to Western sanctions. Chairing a conference on agricultural co-operation with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Putin said Russia would have about 60 million

Marlon Bergen demonstrates his tracked wetlands harvester at the Redboine Watershed District’s Pelly’s Lake Project.

News

Tech widens door for cattail-based fertilizer

Cattails can suck up phosphorus and form a bridge to get that nutrient back in the soil, but consistent harvest access has been a problem

By Don Norman November 15, 2023

A new-to-North-America wetland harvester could revolutionize the way wetlands are managed and provide cheap, sustainable fertilizer in the process, according to at least one watershed district that has tested the machine. “It definitely has the potential to be a game-changer for wetland maintenance, drain maintenance and biomass harvesting,” said Redboine Watershed District manager Justin Reid.

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives Fertilizer

Setting up fertigation in potato crops for success

Ontario company launches first-in-Canada biofertilizer made from cricket frass

Canada pledges funds for efficient fertilizer research

Buy urea sooner than later, says trader

FCC announces new 4R incentive

Building a better fertilizer from wood waste

Feds ask for public input on standards for municipal waste to be used for fertilizer

Brazilian farmers slow fertilizer buys as drought dampens corn-planting plans

Russia eyes eastern trade routes

Tech widens door for cattail-based fertilizer

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