Fertilizer
If the Michigan project continues on pace, the company would break ground this fall with the facility being completed in the next three years.
ABM specializes in seed treatment with bionutrition products. Agrauxine by Lesaffre has been developing biosourced solutions for plant nutrition and health for more than 15 years.
Nutrien leadership shares five areas for growth in its retail business.
The Nutrien board of directors has appointed Mayo Schmidt as President and Chief Executive Officer.
“This acquisition is a tremendous sign not just for Verdesian Life Sciences, but for the category of nutrient use efficiency products,” said Verdesian CEO Kenny Avery.
Josh Linville with StoneX: U.S. phosphate exports “should” be lower going forward–is it guaranteed to drop? No. However, with the U.S. a premium market going forward, it will make more sense to keep tons “home”
The company says this product is built with its patent-pending combination of a co-polymer and solvent blend with time-tested active ingredients NBPT and DCD.
In 1946 Yara imported its first products into the U.S.—calcium nitrate into a port in California—and the company says its footprint has not only grown but evolved in the 75 years since.
Sam Taylor and Stephen Nicholson, both RaboResearch analysts, say while many would call these emerging technologies ‘disruptive,’ they prefer to think of them as evolutionary elements to agriculture.
“We will produce 400,000 tons over the course of this year,” says CEO Amy Yoder. “We can produce on three different lines with a total of 1.2 million tons... I hope we are getting ready to start our second.”
Significant investments Yara made in North America include the 2018 opening of a ammonia plant in Freeport, Texas, in partnership with BASF, and the 2008 acquisition of Yara Belle Plaine, a nitrogen production facility.
Gregg Sauder, founder of 360 Yield Center, says the system uses 40% less water then a center pivot and costs half as much as a drip tape irrigation system.
When farmland draws a premium, you’d expect the soil to be in good shape, right? More landowners are considering fertility clauses in their farm leases to ensure tenants don’t suck the soil dry.
What you did this past fall, what you’re doing this spring and the plans you’re making for the summer will make a huge difference in the combine at the end of the year.
Verdesian’s management team, including President and CEO Kenny Avery, will continue to lead the Company following the close of the transaction.
By now, you’re familiar with the idea of the 4 Rs of nitrogen. Is it worth the hype? Test plots indicate these factors, combined with specific hybrid characteristics can have huge yield implications.
Starter fertilizer is simply the placement of some fertilizer, usually nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), near the seed -- which “jump starts” growth in the spring. How the crop responds to starter fertilizer depends on s
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Fertilizer availability issues are creating a frenzy this spring. While various fertilizers are seeing limited availability, anhydrous ammonia is in the shortest supply, and supply issues for all fertilizer could linger through summer.
The Fertilizer Institute released the Fertilizer Industry Economic Impact Study, highlighting the importance and economic contributions of the U.S. fertilizer industry to the national, state and local economies.
These are highly soluble, carbon-based potassium fertilizers designed to drive bio-activation in soil or as a foliar-applied product.
Aurora Cooperative, which has 40 agronomy locations in central Nebraska, has made two upgrades to two of its fertilizer facilities this spring.
The selective distribution agreement is a model for the future adoption of Heliae’s approach– to provide nutrients to growing crops through accelerated microbial growth while improving the health and structure of soils
Nutrien Ltd, North America’s biggest farm retail supplier, moved up shipments of crop supplies by two to four weeks
With a goal of improving preparing to service customers in the Midwest (specifically for corn and soybeans) Trace Genomics has purchased soil processing assets and opened a soil testing lab in Ames Iowa.
The addition of Pathway will expand Plant Response’s multi-site operations to Plant City, Florida, Koch Biological Solutions R&D site in Hayward, California, and the R&D and commercial operations in Madrid, Spain.
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Right after Wilbur-Ellis announced its biggest acquisition to-date – acquiring Nachurs Alpine Solutions CEO John Buckley gave AgPro a one-on-one interview.
The world’s largest fertilizer producer plans to temporarily close its biggest potash mine as the impact of a Canadian rail strike continues to spread.
Anvuia is retrofitting the idled Mosaic phosphate facility in Plant City, Fla., to become its first full-scale production plant with 1.2 million tons capacity.