by Decisive Farming | Apr 10, 2012 | Articles, Farm Management, Fertilizer Prices
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....
by Decisive Farming | Feb 24, 2012 | Articles, Farm Management, Know-Risk Updates, Uncategorized
The outlook that the USDA published yesterday and today shows corn planting at 94 million acres, which would be the largest acreage since 1944. The report also has soybeans at 75 million, down slightly from last year, and wheat planting rising 3.6 million acres to 58...
by Decisive Farming | Jan 23, 2012 | Articles, Crop Marketing, Farm Management
Inventors Showcase is held every year at Manitoba Ag Days to encourage individuals and companies to develop products that will assist farmers in achieving greater efficiency in their farming operations. This year Decisive Farming won first place with...
by Decisive Farming | Jan 18, 2012 | Articles, Farm Management
From Bloomberg: Russia’s grain crop will be “at least” 90 million metric tons this year, the Agriculture Ministry said. The figure may be reached “on condition of favorable weather and climate conditions,” the ministry said today in a statement, citing Agriculture...
by Decisive Farming | Jan 9, 2012 | Articles, Crop Marketing, Farm Management
CANOLA HEDGE THOUGHTS Prices have been rallying on South American dryness lately. As we have been continuing to stress, if you haven’t already, we highly recommend you start hedging some of your 2012 crop! If we learned anything in 2011 it is that prices will not...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 3, 2012 | Articles, Farm Management, Fertilizer Prices
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...