Major players in takeover attempt 

CF Industries Inc. - Based in Deerfield, IL, it operates nitrogen fertilizer plants in Donaldsonville, LA, and Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; conducts phosphate...

In demand 

By: By Peg Zenk

LAST FALL'S late harvest and short application season for anhydrous ammonia will push more nitrogen application to spring. According to one major ammonia...

Fewer fertilizer makers 

By: By Peg Zenk

WHAT A difference a decade has made in the fertilizer industry. U.S. production declined sharply in the middle of the 2000s, with several facilities being...

Firmer prices, tighter supplies 

By: By Peg Zenk

IT HAS been a frustrating year for anyone buying fertilizer. Both dealers and growers, still stinging from high-priced purchases in 2008, watched prices...

A swing into the black 

By: From Editor Karen McMahon

WHEN THE bin doors finally close on this odd crop season, farmers can finally look ahead to a potentially less expensive year. Experts have predicted...

Precise fertilizer control 

A NEW FERTILIZER control valve will enable the precise control of liquid fertilizer on new planters equipped with air-actuated clutches. The new, smaller...

Breaking ground 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

KANSAS NATIVE Shawn Schneider, a mechanical engineer for a major OEM, was frustrated with the red tape, bureaucracy and layers of middle management involved...

Variable-rate application: What's new? What's next? 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

JORGE HERAUD is the business unit manager for Trimble Agriculture Flow and Application Controls and director of business development for Trimble Agriculture....

In the tillage zone 

By: By Karen McMahon

FARMERS LIKE to tinker with their field machinery, modifying it from the original manufacturer's design. But when Mark Bauer decided to modify his tillage...

N stabilizer approved 

THE NITROGEN stabilizer product called Instinct for use with manure and UAN has received full federal registration for use. Dow AgroSciences developed...