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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.

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.

However, the Rabobank team expects the pricing strength to tail off in the second quarter of 2021, when northern hemisphere purchases decline.

This new formulation will be the product fulfilling upcoming orders of Instinct, and it boasts improved handling and a lower use rate.

Regarding its Source product, the company says it sold out its supply for 2020 and engaged in multiple product trials across the country with ag retailers and farmers

Pivot Bio Proven is the first product of its kind to be marketed in the U.S.

At its Lordstown, Ohio, wholesale fertilizer distribution terminal, The Andersons is constructing a 1.5 million gallon urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) storage tank.

“We’ve had guys run 24-hour shifts already applying anhydrous. So far, we’ve applied 25,000 acres, and we’ve got 60,000 acres of custom anhydrous yet to do,” 

“Last year, we sold direct to the farmer moving enough product for nearly 15,000 acres. And we sold out in 45 days," explains Mark Reisinger, senior director of commercial operations at Pivot Bio.

Helena Agri-Enterprises is working with farmers to meet the nutritional needs of their crop in alternative ways.

This contest spans multiple industries, including food, which was the category in which Anuvia Plant Nutrients received an honorable mention.

With the 2019 spring season just beginning, seven ammonia releases have already occurred in the state of Illinois.

This joins together Yara’s digital farming capabilities, agronomic know-how and team of more than 800 agronomists with IBM’s Watson Studio, IBM PAIRS technology, The Weather Company and more.

“It used to be that once corn was knee-high, our options ran out. But today we have the equipment and tools to feed our corn later in the season and have increased our options.”

While some are in the field applying pre-plant fertilizer, others are waiting for hours or even days for supplies to meet demand.

Wet spring conditions can increase the risk for leaching, denitrification and volatilization losses of nitrogen.

Koch is introducing the new ammonia volatilization inhibitor for 2019

Change is coming fast to a fundamental industry

PinnitMax is formulated for use with urea and UAN application and prevents volatilization for up to 14 days.

Multiple factors already raising questions about whether corn acres can steal significant acres from soybeans in 2019.

A partnership between a global fertilizer and chemical company and an Idaho-based agribusiness firm will soon help to meet the growing international demand for anhydrous ammonia.

In celebration of the role fertilizer has in our everyday life, one day—Oct. 13—is set aside to celebrate the impact fertilizer has had.

“Our greenhouse at Duke University supports our R&D as a science-backed company,” said Kenny Avery, CEO for Verdesian.

Nominations are due by October 31, 2018. Applying is easy; submit details and supporting materials about your 4R efforts online

De Willard with ARA member Willard Agri-Service, and Ford B. West, former president and CEO of The Fertilizer Institute for their recent induction into the Fertilizer Hall of Fame. 

According to two years of research at Iowa State University, Centuro reduced nitrate leaching by an average of 44% in fall-applied anhydrous ammonia and an average of 23% in spring-applied anhydrous ammonia.

If trade tariffs linger into late 2018, will farmers switch their acreage plans to more corn? If so, that could boost nitrogen demand.

The TerraNu technology aims to provide nutrients from manure in a much easier to transport as well as a stable medium.

On June 5, Pursell Agri-Tech opened its first controlled-release fertilizer plant in Sylacauga, Alabama.

You know as well as the next farmer fertilizer is critical to promote healthy, high-yielding crop growth.

The Verdesian Performance Guarantee is a campaign providing a product performance guarantee for Avail and NutriSphere-N.

Illinois retailers have already embraced the IFCA and Agrible platform as part of their voluntary compliance.

Just weeks before the announcement of the rebranding of Crop Production Services, AgPro conducted this Q&A with Mike Frank, Executive Vice President, Nutrien & President, Nutrien Retail.

The North American fertilizer industry pledged $6 million to fund research to strengthen fertilizer best management practices and reduce nutrient loss to the environment.

Case IH is expanding its line of fertilizer applicators with the Nutri-Placer 940 High-Speed Low Disturbance (HSLD) row unit.

Farmers and other stakeholders are finding innovative ways in which they can mitigate nutrient loss from this practice and saturated buffers have proven effective, according to a recent study.

In Garner, Iowa, Greenfield Nitrogen aims to raise $120 million from farmers and retailers to build its anhydrous ammonia plant.

The completion of harvest followed by a wide open weather window led to higher-than-expected demand for fall applied fertilizers.

All part of the Helena Acre product lineup, the new launches include Ele-Max Sulfur LC, Sultrus, N-Fixx XLR and Antares Prime.

In-season tissue sampling helps inform retailers and farmers about nutrient deficiencies. In 2017, Winfield United analyzed over 25,000 tissue samples and compared the results to samples taken in 2016.

“Brazil will be a strategic focus for further expansion due to its large and growing agriculture retail and crop input market,” says Chuck Magro, Nutrien’s President and CEO.

According to a recent study from UC Davis, California agricultural fields are causing major nitrogen oxide pollution in the state. The study indicates up to 20% to 32% of this smog is produced by agriculture fields.

One of the most important practices that any forage producer can incorporate into their program is adding legumes to grass pastures and hayfields. 

David Marburger at Oklahoma State University has provided this insights and tips.

Tulane launched the grand challenge in 2014 as an international competition to identify and nurture the most innovative and adaptable technologies to fight hypoxia.

As you help farmers refine their nutrient management, Tom Fry encourages retailers and farmers to use all the tools available to them.

Centuro nitrification inhibitor and Anvol urease inhibitor from Koch Agronomic Services are both expected to be commercially available in the U.S. in 2018.

WinField United Completes Three Megers and Moves Toward Total Agronomy Solution

Adapt-N is nitrogen recommendation platform in the US. ATC also has N-Insight that aims to optimize fertilizer by field zones.

As part of a $1.3 billion expansion project at the Koch Fertilizer facility in Enid, Oklahoma, Koch Agronomic Services increases production of its SuperU fertilizer.