Variable-rate fertilizer can improve your field’s yield uniformity – but don’t expect huge fertilizer savings, an Ontario agronomist cautions.
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How to start variable-rate fertilizer application
Precision approach can improve yield uniformity, but don’t expect huge fertilizer savings
High fertilizer prices could drive innovation in application
There are ways to apply less fertilizer, but they haven’t been widely adopted
Fertilizer prices are up due to the war in Iran. Higher prices could drive innovation in how farmers apply nitrogen this growing season, John Greig writes.
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.
What Iran conflict means for Ontario fertilizer prices
Ontario and Eastern Canada often bear the brunt of fertilizer import disruptions
Recent disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz near Iran could worsen already expensive fertilizer supply for Ontario farmers.
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.
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 […] Read more
Yara brings most European ammonia production back on stream
Rising fertilizer prices make resumption profitable
Oslo | Reuters — Yara has brought most of its European ammonia production back on line after prices of finished fertilizers rose to make up for a surge in the cost of gas, the Norwegian fertilizer manufacturer said on Wednesday. The company cut back ammonia production at a number of sites in Europe from September […] Read more
Fertilizer shortage may lead to spring scramble
'It's next year's prices I'm worried about'
Reuters — A global shortage of nitrogen fertilizer is driving prices to record levels, prompting North America’s farmers to delay purchases and raising the risk of a spring scramble to apply the crop nutrient before planting season. The Texas Arctic Blast in February and Hurricane Ida in August disrupted U.S. fertilizer production. Then, prices of […] Read more