Fertiliser Price Tracker
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Thanks I hadn't seen that
Pulling fertilizer out of thin air with solar power
Nitricity has put together an experimental plasma reactor that uses solar electricity to produce competitively priced, environmentally clean, nitrogen fertilizer. Their onsite fertilizer production eliminates emissions from transporting fertilizers, and provides a viable alternative to fossil...pv-magazine-usa.com
This looks interesting.
Perhaps the government ought to be subsidising these to every farm.
@Janet Hughes Defra
I remember reading the trial results, it was carried out by ADAS, possibly something like NT26 trial? Interesting that googling ADAS and fertiliser trial now just comes up with loads of stuff about current inhibitor work. I am afraid this has led me to question just how independent ADAS are although some of their work is really good.
Could be very useful.
I've got a 10kw solar system already, be nice to have it churning out feet all year long on the power supplied by it.
Food firms warn of product shortages if CO2 deal not agreed
Food firms warn of product shortages if CO2 deal not agreed
Carbon dioxide, essential in the food industry, could run short again without a new production deal.
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Food firms warn of product shortages if CO2 deal not agreed
Food firms warn of product shortages if CO2 deal not agreed
Carbon dioxide, essential in the food industry, could run short again without a new production deal.www.bbc.co.uk
No mention of the nuclear power plants that need it.....
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The NT26 was an empirical ADAS trial trying to investigate extremes. All N was applied in one dose in May and plots covered in plastic to collect any gases emitted. This of course had a greenhouse effect and made sure there were gases emitted. (60% loss from urea, 10% from AN I think). However fertiliser manufacturers have milked this to extremes, not surprisingly.
Anyone who applies all their N in one dose in May and then covers the crop should not use urea, therefore.
(I think Brisel is referring to the NIAB TAG database which gives very different views).
I have also seen signs of ADAS going the way of a lot of science these days, most work funded by manufacturers and you won't get repeat funding if you get the wrong findings.
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fert is not going down in price, anytime soon. Unless Putin is going to back down, which means he would lose face, which he is not going to like. So NATO and other European countries are moving troops and hardware about. Sweden, the ultra neutral country, has moved it's troops, to re-garrison a strategic island, of its coast, as a direct result of increased soviet interest in it, and would like to join NATO. The danger of things rapidly escalating, are very real. On top of that, China is looking to divert attention away from its rapidly declining economy, and likely to invade Taiwan, if Putin kicks off.
So, all sorts of things will change, even if nothing happens, Germany in particular, relies on energy from Russia, as do many others. They realise that Putin has them firmly grasped, by the short and curlies, they will want to alter that. Alternative sources of energy will need to be found, re-commissioning of coal power stations, is, and will occur. Climate change commitments will not be honoured, they cannot be.
So the unthinkable is now very real, and very close, whether that is by severe sanctions against Russia, or military action, the results will be the same, massive disruption of 'normal' trade routes, already severely compromised by covid. We are certainly going to have a roller coaster year ahead, which will alter food trade routes, ironically in our favour.
So, all sorts of things will change, even if nothing happens, Germany in particular, relies on energy from Russia, as do many others. They realise that Putin has them firmly grasped, by the short and curlies, they will want to alter that. Alternative sources of energy will need to be found, re-commissioning of coal power stations, is, and will occur. Climate change commitments will not be honoured, they cannot be.
So the unthinkable is now very real, and very close, whether that is by severe sanctions against Russia, or military action, the results will be the same, massive disruption of 'normal' trade routes, already severely compromised by covid. We are certainly going to have a roller coaster year ahead, which will alter food trade routes, ironically in our favour.
Bossfarmer
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Im hearing eastern europe/ukraine etc have had a very mild winter with very little frost damage and huge potential crops, anyone else heard this?
ridger
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Long time til harvest
Bossfarmer
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Long time for prices to drift downward, the concern is paying 600 for fert then getting 150 for wheat at harvest, quite likely now the recent rises are short term supply issues and russia, huge crops from ukraine and russia will ruin the fun
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short term wheat, looks plentiful, and prices have eased, traders are thinking going forward, wheat will not be short.
They don't seem to realise the political uncertainty, or the affect of fert price, if Putin kicks off, wheat from Russia and Ukraine, is not going to appear, that will have a rather large effect on wheat price, perhaps not the season to sell much forward ?.
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Prices eased?... Frontier text show a jump of £7 yesterday from Monday for FW and £9 for Milling wheat.
plenty of gas coming from 10 Downing St....
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Perhaps about to hand CF shareholders another quarterly dividend.....I mean incentivise production of a critical industrial input.
Previous bung to produce window for other supplies has seemingly produced nothing. I think back to the last UK gas crisis when they resided there was only three days natural gas storage in the UK and the report suggested building more. I'm led to believe current UK natural gas storage capacity is ....three days.
In Germany it's three months ....shame 1/4 of that storage is owned by Gazprom and 1/2 of it is empty.
Previous bung to produce window for other supplies has seemingly produced nothing. I think back to the last UK gas crisis when they resided there was only three days natural gas storage in the UK and the report suggested building more. I'm led to believe current UK natural gas storage capacity is ....three days.
In Germany it's three months ....shame 1/4 of that storage is owned by Gazprom and 1/2 of it is empty.
Easy I guess, if you have the cor
Easy I guess, if you can source the correct grade UREA from Russia, China or Iran, then distill it in your own chemicals plant to ISO specification; ensuring you have a chemical lab to analyse the final product.
Easy I guess, if you can source the correct grade UREA from Russia, China or Iran, then distill it in your own chemicals plant to ISO specification; ensuring you have a chemical lab to analyse the final product.
serf
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Looks like they going to need their fix 
again soon to keep the show on the road
Fears of NEW CO2 crisis as three-month stopgap deal ends https://mol.im/a/10442577 via https://dailym.ai/android
again soon to keep the show on the road Fears of NEW CO2 crisis as three-month stopgap deal ends https://mol.im/a/10442577 via https://dailym.ai/android
Bramble
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Sell a % forward if you’re worried about prices going down
Bossfarmer
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thats the ukraine situation not a physical shortage