Mosaic Co said on Friday that water supporting the chemical company's storage of a waste byproduct from fertilizer manufacturing in Florida probably made its way into Tampa Bay following a downpour from Hurricane Milton.
Mosaic says fertilizer waste facility’s water entered Tampa Bay after Hurricane Milton
Industrial byproduct phosphogypsum is known to emit cancer-causing radioactive gas
Florida fertilizer plants, grain mills close as Hurricane Milton nears
Fertilizer plants, livestock feed facilities and at least one large flour mill in Florida closed on Wednesday in preparation for Hurricane Milton's destructive winds, heavy rain and deadly storm surge.
Hurricane unlikely to fuel long-term fertilizer price increase, analyst says
While the price of urea fertilizer has spiked at the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida, that increase is unlikely to affect Canadian farmers much, said MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett.
Saskatchewan company pitches decarbonized fertilizer
Genesis Fertilizers says post-production carbon capture will remove carbon dioxide and send it deep underground
Reading Time: 3 minutes Genesis Fertilizers says post-production carbon capture at their incoming fertilizer plant in Saskatchewan will remove carbon dioxide and send it deep underground.
Organic fertilizer made from calamari? I squid you not
Squid Juice repurposes by-product waste from calamari processing and converts it into liquid organic fertilizer.
Nutrien moves on from Louisiana ammonia project amid cost cuts
Reuters – Nutrien NTR.TO on Wednesday said it was no longer pursuing its clean ammonia project in Louisiana and would also be reviewing strategic options for its stake in an Argentinian fertilizer company as it looks to rein in expenses. The top potash producer had halted work indefinitely on its clean ammonia project at Geismar, […] Read more
Nutrien idles three blenders in Brazil ‘indefinitely’
Nutrien Ltd, the world's largest producer of potash fertilizer, confirmed on Tuesday that it is indefinitely halting three blenders in Brazil, where it is trying to navigate difficult market conditions.
U.S. fertilizer imports helping fund Russian war effort, CF Industries says
Reuters – U.S. agriculture companies have been brisk importers of Russian fertilizer since the 2022 Ukraine invasion, a practice that is unwittingly helping fund Russia’s war against Ukraine, U.S. producer CF Industries CF.N said on Thursday. The U.S. does not impose sanctions directly on Russian fertilizer, which is important to global food supplies and prices. […] Read more
Humalite a made-in-Alberta success story
Research backs claims of increased yield when used with fertilizer
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s been proven to increase grain yield, seed protein content and nitrogen use efficiency by up to 19, 30 and 60 per cent respectively, and researchers are still finding more uses for it. It’s called humalite, an organic soil amendment found exclusively in large deposits near Sheerness, about 25 kilometres from Hanna. It’s shaping up […] Read more
Ontario company launches first-in-Canada biofertilizer made from cricket frass
SureSource Commodities debuted pelleted formulation at Guelph Organic Conference
SureSource Agronomy is rolling out a line of crop nutrient products derived from the excrement, exoskeletons and discarded feed materials of crickets.
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