Fertilizer
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.
John Guglielmi, national sales director at Brandt Consolidated, explains how the company maintains its focus on nutrient efficiency provided by its products to a range of industries.
This week Nutrien Ltd. announced with will shut down its Allan, Lanigan and Vanscoy potash mines for up to eight weeks. The shutdowns will occur in the fourth quarter of this year.
This week, Mosaic announced it will decrease production in its Louisiana operations facility by about 500,000 tons in 2019.
In early August Marrone Bio Innovations announced it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Pro Farm Technologies, based in Finland, for $31.8 million.
Input buying is at your fingertips—literally. Agrellus, an online input provider, announced it’s unveiling an app for iPhone and Android that allows farmers to shop for inputs with the tap of a finger.
The Wild West has come to ag retail. The scramble for ag retail dollars has kicked up a dusty haze as traditional chemical players scrap gravel with an expanding list of online start-up companies.
“We created this study to better understand how different fertilizer sources can be combined to deliver more value to the farmer,” says Dr. Ross Bender, agronomist with The Mosaic Company.
Five years ago, NACHURS launched its potassium acetate line with the Bio-k brand. Tommy Roach says the optimum timing for potassium uptake is between V4 and right before tassel.
Calcium Products’ pelletized gypsum, SO4, can be applied after planting and provides flexibility in terms of application timing since it can be spread through corn growth stage V7 and beyond (if necessary).
One submerged within 10 seconds and the other broke apart after making contact and also sank.
PinnitMax is formulated for use with urea and UAN application and prevents volatilization for up to 14 days.
“With our recent growth across multiple core markets in the U.S. it’s critical to have the best sales leadership supporting our sales reps and strategic customers.” said Andrew Duff.