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“When we think about disease management, pest management, integrated pest management, we’re monitoring and assessing all season long. Why aren’t we doing that with nitrogen?” – Deb Campbell.
Crops, News

Lowering emissions without sacrificing profits

Nitrogen strategies that meet grower and government needs

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Nitrogen fertilizer is a cornerstone of crop production. It’s also become a hot political topic, with market volatility, emission reduction demands, geopolitics and a slew of other factors keeping it in the headlines. While nitrogen prices remain high, there are strategies growers can employ to reduce nitrogen use without sacrificing profits or yields. Several researchers […] Read more
Morley Wallace looks down the DAWN Pluribus Gen V Fertile Stripping planter and fertilizer GPS Ontario has been using for the IFS trials.
Crops

Fertile strips could reduce nitrous oxide emissions

Ontario company hopes to expand trials for fertilizer placement/strip till technology

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Placing fertilizer where it can be best used by crops can reduce nitrous oxide emissions, says an Ontario company that is researching emissions related to its Innovative Fertile Strip system. GPS Ontario is the contracted crop provider for Invest Ottawa’s AreaX.O, the former Ottawa research station now known as the Ottawa Smart Farm. It has […] Read more
Eastern Canada is reliant on imported nitrogen, most of which comes from the Baltic region.
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Fertilizer: The long view

For Ontario, spring fertilizer to stay expensive. Internationally, the global nitrogen supply tightens

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Supply is tight but flowing and the product is costly but available. Given current domestic and international realities, the same is likely to be said about fertilizer in spring 2023.  Making specific predictions about the markets for fertilizer is difficult, particularly for nitrogen, but there are ways to improve supply chain resiliency.  Russel Hurst, executive […] Read more
“The world’s food supply cannot be maintained without nitrogen.” – Svein Tore Holsether.
Crops, News

Could nitrogen shortage put food security at risk?

Tightening nitrogen fertilizer supplies raise alarm

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Glacier FarmMedia – The head of the world’s leading fertilizer company is worried that food production will falter as nitrogen fertilizer supplies tighten. “We are deeply concerned about the state of global agriculture,” Svein Tore Holsether, president of Yara International, said during the company’s third quarter 2022 conference call. Fertilizer supplies are being squeezed as […] Read more
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Crops

Richardson makes first entry in branded crop inputs

Company launches new N stabilizer, CirrusX

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Prairie grain handler and agribusiness Richardson Pioneer has launched itself into self-branded crop inputs with a nitrogen stabilizer, CirrusX. Steve Biggar, associate vice-president of fertilizer and energy products for Winnipeg-based Richardson, said it was the right time for the company to launch CirrusX because of new treaters the company has installed to allow liquid products […] Read more
The new test uses water instead of KCl to understand available N in corn.
Crops

A new test for nitrogen on the horizon

New test being developed aims to better identify plant-available nitrogen

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Research completed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and University of Guelph researchers indicates that Ontario corn producers may soon have a more reliable tool for nitrogen (N) fertilizer rate recommendations ahead of planting. Why it matters: Fertilizer prices have increased significantly, so more accurate methods of measuring nitrogen in a field can help save […] Read more
Federal officials have proposed several ways to cut emissions, including more adoption of the 4R nutrient program (right rate, right source, right time and right place).
News

University of Guelph scientist slams fertilizer emissions plan

Financial incentives and more cost-effective testing for researchers and farmers is needed, he says

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Glacier FarmMedia – A scientist from the University of Guelph says the federal government is rushing its plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from nitrogen fertilizer. Other scientists are concerned the plan could contribute to the urban/rural divide where city dwellers view farmers as bad guys who are trying to destroy the planet. Why it […] Read more
Field of young corn with farm in background
Crops

OMAFRA discontinues annual nitrogen survey

The survey may be replaced with a better program to advise farmers on nitrogen applications to corn

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An annual soil nitrogen test survey led by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) has been discontinued for 2022, with the ministry’s corn industry program lead Ben Rosser hoping to work with partners to come up with what he describes as a more effective and easily-administered replacement. The Pre Sidedress Nitrogen […] Read more
Nutrien’s head office building in Saskatoon. (Liam O’Connor photo)
Crops, Markets

Nutrien to further boost potash output amid global shortage

Company will also speed up nitrogen capacity boosts

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Reuters — Nutrien, the world’s largest fertilizer producer, said Thursday it will increase its Canadian potash production by 20 per cent to an annual 18 million tonnes by 2025, helping to address tight supplies that have contributed to a global food shortage. Potash prices have soared since the West imposed sanctions against Russia for Moscow’s […] Read more

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