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Sollio Agriculture opens its fertilizer coating plant at St. Thomas

Real Agriculture

The new controlled-release fertilizer production plant is based at St. its Agromart retail partners in Ontario and the Maritimes, and Pursell, a fertilizer technology manufacturer. Sollio Agriculture officially opened CRF Agritech on Monday. Thomas, Ont. Read More

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New fertilizer placement capabilities for Bednar’s Directo seed drill

Real Agriculture

Manufactured by family-owned Czech company, the seed drill is designed for direct seeding of various crops into uncultivated soil, stubble fields, catch crops or heavy and rocky soils. Bednar will be bringing its new Directo No seed drill to North America for 2024.

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RealAg on the Weekend: Anti-dumping, China and canola, fertilizer prices, and low yields, Sept 7, 2024

Real Agriculture

Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Chris Davison with the Canola Council of Canada on China’s anti-dumping investigation on Canadian canola; Chris Meyer with ADM Fertilizer on fertilizer prices; and Don’t miss spotlight interview with Tim Criddle for SeedMaster Manufacturing. Also, hear a clip with Jenna Gregoire.

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Op-ed: The Food System Cannot Become Another Fossil-Fuel Industry Escape Hatch

Civil Eats

Growing vast monocultures of potatoes requires synthetic fertilizers whose production requires massive amounts of energy. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production. The same is true for plastic used in food packaging.

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Denali Changes10 Billion Pounds of Organic Matter into Fertilizer

Agwired

Organic recycling company Denali today announced it has transformed over 10 billion pounds of organic byproducts into natural fertilizers, according to its newly released third annual sustainability report detailing findings from 2023. Fertilizer and chemicals remain the largest on-farm expenditure accounting for 17.5%

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Coalition Letter regarding hearing on “Improving the Federal Environmental Review and Permitting Processes”

NASDA

WAC represents a large and diverse cross-section of the nations broad business community, including the construction, transportation, real estate, recreation, mining, manufacturing, forestry, agriculture, energy, wildlife conservation, and public health and safety sectors.

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USDA Invests Over $50 million in Domestic Fertilizer Production Expansion, Double Cropping Support

AgWeb Farm Journal

million under the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP), aimed at boosting domestic fertilizer manufacturing and reducing costs for farmers. USDA announced awards totaling $52.6