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Adapting to Canada’s Changing Ag Landscape

Farming has been going through a lot of changes in recent years especially as the internet and handheld devices have landed on the farm and inside the tractor. Farmers are connected to the world and the markets on a daily basis they are no longer just talented crop...

Decisive Farming Fertilizer Market Update

Seem familiar? Corn + Supply + Demand = High Urea Prices Key take away: Sell part of 2013 crops and buy 2013 fertilizer/fuel to lock in likely the largest farm margins in history. The fertilizer market is being driven by extremely high crop commodity prices for corn,...

Fertilizer Market Update

Corn + Supply + Demand = High Urea Prices As we head closer into the Western Canadian spring we have always seen a premium in fertilizer prices. Typically, local supply demand fundamentals become the key driver of price and international markets fall more to the side....

Phosphate producers cutting production

With a recent decline in world phosphate prices manufacturers in the US and Russia have announced that they will be cutting production.  Manufacturers feel that the recent decline doesn’t reflect the real situation in agriculture and that they will reduce supply to...

Egyptian Nitrogen Facility Shut Down- firms supply and prices

In Egypt it is thought that 1 person may have been killed and a number of others wounded this past weekend in riots between the army and protesters.    Protesters want the nitrogen facility shut down and no future expansions (which were planned for new year) allowed...

Ma-aden phosphate plant production delayed

The 3 million tpa phosphate plant in Saudi Arabia has been delayed to the end of March 2012.  With regards to impact for Western Canada, it is anticipate that there won’t be any downward pressure on phosphate prices in Western Canada from this plant until after...