by Breanne Baker | Mar 16, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The shining star in the Saskatchewan economy has been potash. Potash prices have remained high even though worldwide nitrogen and phosphate prices tumbled. Most analysts attribute that difference to market concentration. While fertilizer production generally is...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 6, 2009 | Agronomic Service, Agronomy, Articles
“There really is no central head office,” explains DynAgra Corp. president Bruce Schmaltz. Like much of what Schmaltz says, it turns out that this is a statement you can — and should — take several ways if you want to understand or copy the success of the independent...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 23, 2008 | Articles, Precision Farming, Variable Rate Technology
Pat Kunz estimates it takes two or three extra bushels of wheat yield or perhaps an extra bushel of $9 to $10 canola to cover the cost of using variable rate fertilizer technology (VRT) on his Bieseker, Alta., farm. That includes soil testing,...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 11, 2008 | Articles, Precision Farming, Variable Rate Technology
With variable-rate technology, your goal is to give extra fertilizer to the most productive parts of the field. It is not about forcing every acre to produce the same yield By Lee Hart Pat Kunz says he will never go back to a single-rate fertilizer application...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 28, 2008 | Agronomic Service, Articles
Bruce Schmaltz knows he isn’t the only person ever to have said it: “We have to continually ask ourselves in this business ‘what can I do to make the farmer — my customer — an extra buck?’ If the farmer remains profitable, then we remain profitable.” That said, just...
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