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Expansion underway on Brandon fertilizer terminal

More storage to be added at three-year-old facility

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Federated Co-operatives (FCL) has started expansion work at its next-to-new fertilizer terminal in western Manitoba, to boost its capacity by almost a third. FCL announced Monday it has budgeted $5 million to add 9,000 tonnes of capacity at the Co-op Fertilizer Terminal at Brandon, bringing its maximum storage to 36,500 tonnes. Work began at the […] Read more
Crops, Reuters

U.S. puts duties on phosphate from Morocco, Russia

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Reuters — The U.S. Department of Commerce said Tuesday it would set preliminary duties on phosphate fertilizer imports from Russia and Morocco, after launching an investigation to determine if producers in these countries were receiving unfair subsidies. The department set preliminary duties of 23.46 per cent on imports from Morocco’s OCP Group and other producers […] Read more
Crops

Fall fertilizer prices offer more good news for Prairie growers

Prices for urea, phosphate and anhydrous ammonia are all at the lower end of their normal range

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Prices for urea, phosphate and anhydrous ammonia are all at the lower end of their normal range

Reading Time: 4 minutes Fertilizer prices have seen some ups and downs over the past six months, but the situation heading into winter looks favourable. “When we look at the overall input markets so far in 2020, we see that they’ve kind of eased up. For producers right now, that’s a pretty good spot to be in,” said Craig […] Read more
Livestock, Reuters

ADM, InnovaFeed to build world’s biggest insect protein plant in Illinois

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain trader and processor Archer Daniels Midland and French biotech company InnovaFeed announced plans on Thursday to build the world’s largest insect protein plant at Decatur, Illinois. The announcement comes amid rising global feed grain prices and tightening supplies, and as more companies work toward reducing the carbon footprint of […] Read more
Federated Co-operatives Limited's new high-throughput fertilizer terminal in Grassy Lake, Alta., has the capacity to store 34,400 metric tonnes of fertilizer. It also has a loop track that can accommodate up to 110 railcars.
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Newest loop track at fertilizer terminal handles up to 110 rail cars

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Reading Time: < 1 minute The loop track trend is expanding beyond grain terminals. Federated Co-operatives Limited’s newly opened fertilizer terminal near Grassy Lake (85 kilometres east of Lethbridge) has a loop track that can accommodate up to 110 rail cars. In a release, FCL calls the loop track “an essential feature” because it allows it to “receive product from […] Read more
Crops, Reuters, Weather

Fertilizer use fuelling climate-warming nitrous oxide emissions, study says

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London | Reuters — Rising use of nitrogen-based fertilizers is driving up global emissions of nitrous oxide, a lesser-known greenhouse gas, complicating efforts to limit climate change, scientists reported in a study on Wednesday. Most of the focus in curbing climate-warming gas emissions has focused on the most abundant, carbon dioxide, and one of the […] Read more
Crops, Reuters

Trump-backed Canadian railway to Alaska faces high hurdles

Proponents say line could move grain, fertilizer as well as oil

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Winnipeg/Washington | Reuters — A private-sector proposal endorsed by U.S. President Donald Trump to build a railway from Canada’s oil sands to ports in Alaska would free landlocked crude but faces numerous steep challenges. Trump wrote on Twitter over the weekend that he would issue a permit for the Alaska-Alberta Railway Development Corporation (A2A Rail) […] Read more
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It’s been a big year for fertilizer shipments

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Fertilizer shipments of nitrogen and phosphorus reached record levels this year, says Fertilizer Canada, citing StatsCan data. Shipments of potash and sulphur were down slightly from near-record levels, for the year ended June 30. Shipments, based on nutrient content, reached record highs of 2.672 million tonnes of nitrogen, up two per cent from the year […] Read more

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