Fertilizer
Patrick Scates runs a service company, not a fertilizer company. His Shawneetown, Ill., terminal is targeted to go live Dec. 1 and is built to let wholesalers share the infrastructure bill.
Your fertilizer program contains mobile and immobile nutrients. Understanding the differences can help you get more ROI from all of them.
After more than a decade of field trials, Eric Miller has found that the highest corn yields don’t necessarily maximize ROI. His work offers insights for other growers looking to improve nutrient efficiencies and protect margins.
A multi-year study at the PTI Farm in Illinois suggests banding phosphorus and potassium at reduced rates can improve returns, but tillage costs and soil fertility levels matter.
Farmers have to manage 2027 costs around a supply crunch driven by the Strait of Hormuz, European gas prices, and falling corn prices. The FIELDS awards committed $1.34 billion to eight domestic fertilizer projects on Oct. 22, and Josh Linville of StoneX says it is a real step in the right direction that still falls well short of what farmers need.
Bigger harvests mean more nutrients leave the field. Evaluating your crop nutrient removal rates can help as you start planning for next season, recommends one field agronomist.
The co-op’s investment in Wabash Valley Resources backs a 500,000-metric-ton anhydrous ammonia facility that is not expected to produce until 2029.
Farmers like North Dakota’s Jay Myers are combining soil testing, alternative resistance sources and crop rotation to stay ahead of the pest—and new technologies are on the way.
Backed by the USDA’s FIELDS program and private funds, eight projects across 16 states will expand domestic capacity by over 1 million tons annually to help lower nitrogen and potash prices for U.S. farmers.
Today’s nitrogen management strategies go beyond rates and timing to include protective measures that can give farmers more control over one of their largest input investments.
Josh Linville says tight nitrogen supplies, rising demand and global disruptions to sulfur supplies are keeping pressure on fertilizer markets, even if tensions in the Strait of Hormuz ease.
ClearCost CEO Keith Busch says the platform will post state-level delivered prices, hold payment until product moves and, eventually, support hedging, with the redeveloped version due in January.
With fertilizer prices elevated, farmers are looking for relief wherever they can find it. The question is whether suspending the Jones Act is a key piece of the puzzle.
With global supply, production costs and geopolitics all in flux, corn and soybean growers face a tough call on how much of their 2027 crop inputs to price this fall.
If crops showed yellow stress before knee-high, surface inhibitors or the wrong nutrient form were likely to blame. Ken Ferrie explains how choosing the right fertilizer forms and why banded placement delivers twice the horsepower.
A new report commissioned by NCGA and ASA found 90% of 1,200 farmers surveyed say they are more or equally concerned about their farm financials than a year ago.
Blaming monopolies for high fertilizer costs misses the real culprit: complex global supply chains. Fighting costs requires open dialogue, not endless lawsuits.
Private labels are proving to be one way businesses are forging a new path.
StoneX analyst doubts Belarusian potash will materially lower US prices or boost supplies
The industry is at the intersection of a wave of patents expiring, margin shrinking, and heightened competition.
Starting small on less productive acres gave Whalen Farms room to learn — and eventually cut fertilizer costs across 2,000 acres.
Two Midwest farmers share how ongoing cost pressures are reshaping their approach to harvest and planning for 2027.
Sound Agriculture adds seed treatment to its product portfolio, with nutrient use efficiency in focus.
Sulfur prices have surged more than fivefold, threatening phosphate fertilizer production. With global supply tightening, farmers could face higher prices, or even fertilizer shortages, heading into the months ahead.
Planting soybeans months before wheat harvest sounds risky. But farmers Brian Tanner and Jason Mauck find it dries wet fields faster, cuts input costs and gives wheat a profitable place back in Corn Belt rotations.
Researchers say a simple combine tweak gives farmers a way to concentrate up to 95% of their toughest weed seeds into just 5% of a field.
Two months after a NCGA study showed U.S. farmers pay double what Brazilian farmers pay for some crop inputs, Iowa’s senior senator is asking President Trump to step in.
Barbell, beer can and banana are descriptive names for abnormal ear shapes that show up every season and cause yield losses — problems growers could avoid more often by tuning into three factors researchers refer to as GEM.