With fertilizer prices spiking on Middle East conflict, on-farm green ammonia and other innovations offer Prairie farmers a path to stability.
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OPINION: Global chaos raises stakes for green farm technology
On-farm green ammonia starts to look a lot more appealing when the global fertilizer market gets caught in a geopolitical firestorm every few years
Gulf fertilizer plants go dark as Iran war chokes global supply ahead of spring planting
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Strait of Hormuz closure halts Gulf fertilizer production, sending urea prices surging as global spring planting season begins.
Iran war catches Prairie farmers in the geopolitical crossfire — again
Prairie farmers didn’t ask for a Mideast conflict to squeeze global fuel and fertilizer supply chains — threatening to send farm costs spiking — but here we are
Prairie farmers didn’t ask for a Mideast conflict to squeeze global fuel and fertilizer supply chains — threatening to send farm costs spiking — but here we are.
Iran war to disrupt urea and sulphur supplies
The Middle East accounts for 50 per cent of global sulphur exports and 34 per cent of urea shipments
For Prairie farmers in need of spring fertilizers, ongoing war in the Middle East will have the biggest impact on urea and sulphur prices, an Argus market analyst says.
Pulse Weekly: More Saskatchewan pulse acres very likely in 2026/27
Due to high fertilizer prices, there’s a strong possibility that Saskatchewan farmers will plant more pulses this spring, said Dale Risula, provincial specialist for pulse crops with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture.
Iran conflict drives up urea prices
The war in Iran is already driving up urea prices in North American and will likely impact phosphate as well, say analysts.
Precision 4R cuts farm greenhouse gas emissions
Lower areas in your field tend to emit more greenhouse gas, research shows that precision 4R nutrient stewardship practices can help mute the trend
Lower areas in your field tend to emit more greenhouse gas, research shows that precision 4R nutrient stewardship practices can help mute the trend
Hurricane unlikely to fuel long-term fertilizer price increase, analyst says
While the price of urea fertilizer has spiked at the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida, that increase is unlikely to affect Canadian farmers much, said MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett.
Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock
Sanctions cut global fertilizer supply 15 per cent, company says
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
Understanding where your nitrogen is
Excess nitrates from last fall are disappearing, but more stable ammonium applications are likely still there
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.