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Dung insects help break down manure, recycling nutrients back into the landscape, mitigating the surface impact of dung pats, and in some cases, reducing habitat for parasites such as face flies, horn flies and stable flies.
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Cow patty critters: Understanding dung insects in your pasture

A comprehensive new guidebook provides insight into a valuable ecosystem

By Tara Mulhern Davidson October 10, 2024
Cow patty critters is a guidebook for farmers and ranchers to understand cattle dung insects and their benefits.

FILE PHOTO: A dragline operator moves around phosphate rocks while mining at Mosaic’s South Fort Meade Mine in Fort Meade, Florida January 13, 2010./File Photo
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Florida fertilizer plants, grain mills close as Hurricane Milton nears

By Reuters October 9, 2024
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
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Hurricane unlikely to fuel long-term fertilizer price increase, analyst says

By Geralyn Wichers October 9, 2024
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.

Organic fertilizer made from calamari? I squid you not.
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Organic fertilizer made from calamari? I squid you not

By Diana Martin September 10, 2024
Squid Juice repurposes by-product waste from calamari processing and converts it into liquid organic fertilizer.


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Pressure on farm income could push input prices down says FCC economist

By Geralyn Wichers August 29, 2024
Next year's farm input market will depend on the level of pressure on farm income, but early signs suggest input prices could come down according to recent analysis from Farm Credit Canada.

Fertilizer Canada calls for federal interference in rail dispute

Fertilizer Canada calls for federal interference in rail dispute

A work stoppage would cost fertilizer sector $55-63 million in lost sales a day, Fertilizer Canada estimates

By Alexis Stockford August 21, 2024
Fertilizer Canada, and many other farm organizations in Canada, are calling for binding arbitration to stop both strike action and lockouts.


A grain train pulls up alongside a cargo vessel at the Alliance Grain Terminal at Vancouver on Oct. 6, 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)
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North American agriculture groups ask US, Canadian governments to stop rail strike

By Promit Mukherjee, Reuters, Tom Polansek August 20, 2024
Nearly three dozen North American agriculture groups, in a joint letter to the U.S. and Canadian governments today, urged action to avoid a rail stoppage.

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US targets nitrous oxide in new phase of climate strategy

By Reuters, Valerie Volcovici July 23, 2024
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it would seek to curb U.S. emissions of powerful industrial greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide as it enters a new phase in the national strategy to fight climate change under the Paris agreement.


Dan Owen, director of agronomy for ATP demonstrates the leaf tissue function of his company’s Nutriscan scanner. Photo: Don Norman
Crops, News

Company promises instant plant tissue sample results

By Don Norman July 19, 2024
ATP Nutrition, which made headlines last year with their Nutriscan portable soil lab, has upgraded the system to scan nutrients in the leaf tissue of plants.

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Entrepreneurs tout products at Ag in Motion event

By Sean Pratt July 17, 2024
Entrepreneurs pitched their products at Ag in Motion’s AgTech Breakfast today.


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