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Poll: Making fertilizer decisions when margins are thin

Real Agriculture

Soil fertility is always on that list. Whether its trying to better understand nitrogen loss risk, matching pounds of product to yield potential, anticipating price moves, or evaluating a new product, theres never a shortage of interest in soil fertility topics. Soil fertility is always on that list. Earlier Read More

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Connecting fertilizer and bioscience for sustainable food production

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Agriculture is forever evolving and so is the business of fertilizer and crop nutrition. Its been 20 years since fertilizer heavyweight, The Mosaic Company, was formed by a merger between IMC Global and Cargills crop nutrition division.

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Nitrogen fertilizer markets creep up on snug supplies, strong demand

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The fertilizer market doesnt move in lock-step with the grain markets both the peak demand and trends work on their own timelines. Which is too bad, of course, when commodity prices drop but fertilizer prices dont follow suit. Which is too bad, of course, when commodity prices drop but fertilizer prices dont follow suit.

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Transforming food bank waste into crop fertility

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Grandmothers garden is often the first place that children learn about the benefit of having worms in the soil. They learn from an early age that you dont throw worms away, you put them back into the ground where you found them, says Mike Launer of Annelida Soil Solutions.

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Green Lightning aims to pull N fertilizer out of thin air

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Molecules in the air consist of 78 per cent nitrogen. During a lightning storm, the energy of a lightning bolt breaks apart nitrogen molecules, allowing them to form nitrogen oxides. These dissolve in rainwater as nitrates, which fall to the ground with the rain and add nitrogen to soil.

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Soil School: Building organic matter with nitrogen fertilizer

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How does commercial nitrogen fertilizer impact soil organic matter? After reviewing decades of academic… Read More How does commercial nitrogen fertilizer impact soil organic matter? After reviewing decades of academic… Read More How does commercial nitrogen fertilizer impact soil organic matter?

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Genesis Fertilizers moves closer to breaking ground on urea plant

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When farmers set set their sights at higher target yields, one of the limiting factors is often soil fertility. Securing nitrogen fertilizer is costly and dependent on long supply chains. Currently, Read More When farmers set set their sights at higher target yields, one of the limiting factors is often soil fertility.