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Nutrien’s head office building in Saskatoon. (Liam O’Connor photo)

Nutrien misses profit estimates amid higher fertilizer prices

CF Industries also books lower sales

By GFM Network News February 16, 2023

Reuters — Canadian fertilizer maker Nutrien on Wednesday forecast lower-than-expected 2023 earnings and posted fourth-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates, sending shares down 2.6 per cent in extended trading. While higher fertilizer prices dented demand in early second-half of last year, a fall in prices later in the year did not boost demand as farmers […] Read more

Cargo ship Despina V, carrying Ukrainian grain, is seen in the Black Sea off Kilyos near Istanbul, Turkey on Nov. 2, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Umit Bektas)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Russia says sanctions a barrier to Black Sea grain deal renewal

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 14, 2023

Reuters — Russia said Monday it would be “inappropriate” to extend the Black Sea grain deal unless sanctions affecting its agricultural exports are lifted and other issues are resolved. The Black Sea Grain Initiative, signed by Russia and Ukraine last July, created a safe corridor to allow grain to be exported from Ukrainian ports blockaded […] Read more

The percentage of canola growers using variable-rate fertilizer on all of their fields in 2021 was down slightly from the previous year.

Columns, Crops

Why are farmers slow to adopt variable-rate fertilizer technology?

Reasons for the slow adoption rate plus tips to get you started

By Ross H. McKenzie February 6, 2023

Variable-rate fertilizer (VRF) application has caught the interest of a lot of farmers over the past 15 years. However, the level of adoption of VRF has been slower than expected. A Fertilizer Canada survey of canola farmers in Western Canada in the fall of 2021 found only 10.2 per cent of growers used VRF application […] Read more

Insects come and go over the years, so ask other growers and agronomists what you need to watch out for to help gauge costs.

Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Consider variable costs when planning your rotation

Q & A with an expert

By Trent Dorrance February 3, 2023

Q: What key financial decisions do I need to make about crop production and protection? A: Going into the 2023 growing season, you may be thinking, what are the key financial decisions I need to make around crop production and protection? This question is one of the most important every year for crop planning. There […] Read more

Dry alfalfa and straw bales are loaded into the Kuhn Side Slinger manure spreader, which doubles as a mixer wagon. The hay and straw will serve as biomass for the compost.

Features, News

Build your own bioreactor

Regenerative Ag: A farmer puts his homegrown biological fertilizer to work in his fields to improve soil health and crop quality and save on input costs

By Lee Hart January 31, 2023

Former Saskatchewan farmer Franck Groeneweg will be heading out to his Montana grain fields this spring to apply a biological fertilizer made on his farm. Over the past three growing seasons, it appears this liquid compost extract helps to maintain crop yields while making it possible for him to significantly reduce chemical fertilizer rates. It […] Read more

Research studies in Western Canada have shown general applications of boron fertilizer are not warranted to optimize canola yields or quality.

Columns, Crops

Do Prairie crops need boron fertilizer?

Before you apply boron fertilizer, read this

By Ross H. McKenzie January 26, 2023

We often hear about the need for boron (B) fertilizer to optimize canola production and occasionally for other crops. However, boron is not widely used as a fertilizer in Western Canada. In the fall of 2021, Fertilizer Canada surveyed western Canadian wheat and canola growers to determine fertilizer use. This survey found about 8.6 per […] Read more

The Mosaic Co. potash mine at Colonsay, Sask., southeast of Saskatoon. (MosaicInCanada.com)

Crops, Reuters

Mosaic says stockpiles too high to restart Saskatchewan mine

Company expects Russia, Belarus 2023 potash exports at 2022 level

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News January 25, 2023

Winnipeg | Reuters — Fertilizer producer Mosaic Co. does not currently see the right market conditions to restart its idled Saskatchewan potash mine, with high inventories in the U.S. and Brazil and cold weather slowing trains from Canada, CEO Joc O’Rourke said Wednesday. Mosaic curtailed potash production in December at its Colonsay, Sask. mine, but […] Read more

The 4R message is clearly resonating with western Canadian producers. But what’s unclear is exactly how many growers have really taken 4R nutrient management to heart with their farming practices.

Columns, Wheat & Chaff

New incentives for farmers to practice 4R

By Mark Halsall January 24, 2023

Most everybody knows how important 4R nutrient management is. Applying nitrogen and other nutrients from the right source and at the right rate, time and place ensures crops get all of the nutrients they need while also minimizing losses through nitrous oxide emissions. Many believe 4R nutrient stewardship could also be key to reaching the […] Read more

Features

Resilient rotations

Researchers focus on precipitation use efficiency as a way to assess crop rotations

By Jim Timlick January 17, 2023

While extreme heat and drought made life miserable for farmers in many parts of the Prairies the past few summers, those conditions proved to be something of a silver lining for a group of researchers leading a project called Resilient Rotations. A key area of the study, which aims to develop a new approach to […] Read more

Using a nitrogen stabilizing product such as ESN allows farmers to place more nitrogen in or near the seed row without damage to the seedling.

Crops, News

ESN fertilizer: it’s all about the blend

Recommendations will vary with soil conditions but a 50 per cent blend with urea is described as the “sweet spot”

By Lee Hart January 16, 2023

Saskatchewan agronomist Shannon Winny says many of her customers find a combination of ESN and urea provides a valuable return on investment in most years and under variable growing conditions. ESN or Environmentally Smart Nitrogen is a controlled-release nitrogen fertilizer product first introduced by Agrium (now Nutrien) about 20 years ago. ESN is 44 per […] Read more

CBOT Weekly: Grain prices showing weakness

Manitoba Crop Report: More scattered rains across the province

MacDon shows new FD2 Plus FlexDraper at Ag in Motion

GFM Network News