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Crops, Markets, Reuters

Agrium bucks fertilizer sector trend with Q3 profit

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Canadian fertilizer and farm retail dealer Agrium on Thursday reported quarterly profit jumped nearly nine per cent, as higher sales volumes and lower costs helped it buck the sector’s trend of weaker earnings. Weaker currencies in fertilizer-buying markets such as Brazil and India are weighing down prices, leading rivals PotashCorp and Mosaic Co. […] Read more
Mosaic’s mine shaft tower from its K3 facility in southern Sask. Photo: Greg Berg
Crops, Reuters

Mosaic sees sliding fertilizer sales; cost-cutting boosts profit

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Fertilizer sales look to slide through the rest of the year, U.S. producer Mosaic Co. said on Tuesday, as greater shipments into key markets by rivals in Belarus and China boost competition. The world’s largest producer of finished phosphate products reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by cost-cutting. Fertilizer prices have fallen as the strong […] Read more
The ‘ghostly nature’ of phantom nutrients
Crops

The ‘ghostly nature’ of phantom nutrients

Micronutrients are the acid test of crop fertility. Some believe in them. Others just don’t

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Reading Time: 5 minutes For the most part, our Prairie soils aren’t short of micronutrients. Deficiencies are rare, and they are also difficult to pin down, in part because such shortages are usually associated with highly localized soil conditions and because some of these conditions change with varying moisture or pH levels. As well, since these micronutrients are only […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Slowdown in sales softens fertilizer market

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — A lack of buying throughout North and South America has put fertilizer prices under pressure, but so far, no one is lining up to capitalize on the weakness, according to an industry watcher. “Farmers aren’t in the mood to buy fall fertilizer. I think they’re more uncertain this year than they normally […] Read more
To sample, or not to sample (soil). Who’s right?
Crops

To sample, or not to sample (soil). Who’s right?

Some of your neighbours have stopped soil sampling. Others are sampling more than ever.

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In any year, at most 10 per cent of the fields are soil sampled,” says Tom Jensen, a director in the North American program of the International Plant Nutrition Institute. “Some people say 20 per cent of farmers do some soil testing, but they may only do it every couple to three years.” Farm consolidation […] Read more
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Crops

Richardson to build in S. Alta. inputs market

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Prairie grain handler Richardson International is moving to shore up its presence in southern Alberta’s crop inputs market with a new dealership. The Winnipeg company announced Wednesday it will build a new crop inputs centre at Three Hills, about 65 km east of Olds, starting this fall to open and begin operating next spring. “The […] Read more
Martin Entz sees opportunity for grain and livestock producers to work together on a more sustainable combination of annual and perennial crops.
Crops

Is momentum being lost for sustainable agriculture?

Farmers have made great strides toward sustainability, but there are fears that we’re starting to slip back

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Have we become more sustainable?” asks Martin Entz, professor of natural systems agriculture at the University of Manitoba. “In some ways we’ve moved forward a long way, but there’s also some things we’ve moved backwards on.” Farmers have scored big wins in erosion control, the rate of organic matter loss, water use efficiency, weed management, […] Read more
OCI’s Iowa nitrogen plant, shown here under construction in 2015. (OCI.nl)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

Fertilizer firm CF Industries to buy OCI assets

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — U.S. fertilizer maker CF Industries said on Thursday it will buy OCI NV’s North American and European plants for US$6 billion, making CF the world’s largest publicly-traded nitrogen company. The stock and cash deal comes 10 months after CF’s merger talks with Yara International collapsed. It marks the largest fertilizer M+A deal since […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Fertilizer prices steady as farmers gauge fall use

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Farmers are starting to assess how much fertilizer they’ll use going into the fall, if at all, based on crop budgets, according to an industry analyst. Fertilizer prices are being driven by crop prices and the global market, and both those factors are keeping prices steady, said David Asbridge, president at NPK […] Read more
man standing in a crop field
Canola, Crops

Is your soil lacking phosphorous? How to diagnose nutrient deficiency

Phosphorus deficiency is hard to identify and often goes unnoticed — even when significant yield loss can be occurring. Will an extra 20 lbs./ac. of phosphate pay off?

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Soil phosphorus levels are critically low in more and more fields. These fields may no longer provide enough phosphorus for crops to reach their yield potential, which means the solution to yield stagnation — on some fields, at least — could be plain old boring phosphate. Canola takes up around 1.5 pounds of phosphate per […] Read more

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