Insights and Stories on Fertilizer

Spring run on fertilizer creates challenges

May. 7, 2015 at 11:45 am CDT

CNS Canada — Seasonal challenges are popping up for fertilizer users this spring, according to the president of Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers — but Dan Mazier says they’re not your typical ones. “The supply seems to be all right; definitely anhydrous ammonia is available,” he said. However, he’s heard some […]

PotashCorp, Mosaic profits climb less than expected

Apr. 30, 2015 at 12:01 pm CDT

By Reuters

Ammonium sulphate seen tougher to find, afford

Mar. 17, 2015 at 11:24 am CDT

By Dave Sims

PotashCorp buys stake in Heringer to expand in Brazil

Mar. 2, 2015 at 5:34 pm CST

By Ashutosh Pandey Guillermo Parra-Bernal

Agrium profit beats Street, helped by higher grain prices

Feb. 23, 2015 at 8:00 pm CST

By Reuters

All crops not equal in face of weakening dollar

Jan. 29, 2015 at 6:09 pm CST

CNS Canada –– With the Canadian dollar falling to its weakest levels relative to its U.S. counterpart in six years, the general sentiment holds it should be good news for exporters, such as Canadian grain farmers. However, any net benefit may depend on what exactly is being exported and who […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Fertilizer prices stray away from corn influence: Analyst

Jan. 24, 2015 at 4:32 am CST

CNS Canada — Foreign exports and transportation look like they could be the main issues facing the fertilizer industry in 2015. Countries such as Ukraine, Russia and Belarus are busy players on the market, with Morocco also ramping up production. As a result, more supplies of phosphates and other fertilizers […]

By Dave Sims

Ont. to allow land application of greenhouse feedwater

Dec. 17, 2014 at 7:53 pm CST

Spent nutrient solutions from Ontario’s commercial greenhouses will be made more easily available to crop growers for land application starting in 2015 under a new provincial regulatory framework. Greenhouse growers in the province are already required by law to safely dispose of the greenhouse nutrient feedwater (GNF) after it’s been […]

By Staff

China looking to curb fertilizer, pesticide use

Dec. 5, 2014 at 8:14 pm CST

Beijing | Reuters — China, the world’s top producer of rice and wheat, is seeking to cap its use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides that have helped to contaminate large swathes of its arable land and threaten its ability to keep up with domestic food demand. More than 19 per […]

By Dominique Patton

Manitoba extends fertilizer application window

Nov. 7, 2014 at 4:25 pm CST

Manitoba crop producers who’d hoped to apply manure or fertilizers to their fields now have a couple of extra days before the province’s annual winter ban takes effect. Manitoba’s conservation and water stewardship department announced Friday it will delay the start of the annual provincewide winter nutrient application ban until […]