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NH3 PreBuy, Simply WTF!

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  • SASKFARMER3
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2006
    • 14485

    NH3 PreBuy, Simply WTF!

    Yes I understand that NH3 is based on a price out of the USA. But the product is not brought in to Canada from over seas its produced right here in Shit hole Saskatchewan and then shipped south to ND. Some years the trucks delivering to the plant are bringing NH3 back to our home town from ND. So it kind of takes a truck ride south then north again. What a system.
    So again yes the dollar at .85 does add to the price if you use Fertilizer logic.
    But when I am seeing prepay at .59 to high of .61 its WTF time.
    Also some companies are just coming out today with their price. Ah did you all have a meeting and wonder what is the best price you can gouge the consumer.
    AH the fertilizer game it is one of life's great mysteries.
  • bucket
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2008
    • 17030

    #2
    Grain is priced in usd. Pricing never converts on my grain like it does on fertilizer.

    Just ask depape for the explanation.

    Fertilizer and grain are produced mid point saskatchewan. They both get trucked south. Fertilizer gets a price increase and grain gets discounted.

    Go figure?

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    • SASKFARMER3
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2006
      • 14485

      #3
      Last spring I would say 60% of the semi loads into the two bullets beside us were from ND.
      Yes we never ran out of product but doesn't compute.

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      • Hamloc
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2014
        • 3964

        #4
        Sask3 good points. Why is potash just as bad or worse. Price quoted the other day is 540 a tonne. They sell this product to china and india for closer to 300 a tonne US but charge canadians through the nose to this I say wtf as well!

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        • bucket
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2008
          • 17030

          #5
          We get the price if we bought it from China. So we pay the freight both ways.

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          • TASFarms
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2014
            • 1351

            #6
            Should just start putting light crude oil in the sprayer and see just how much that would pay.

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            • Hopperbin
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2007
              • 6562

              #7
              So any long term pre buying farmers considering holding off for a bit or just pay it now? Wont hurt to hold off a bit would it?

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              • Hopperbin
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2007
                • 6562

                #8
                Fna just give word about starter fertilizer price increase. So they are no help.

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                • seabass
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2005
                  • 825

                  #9
                  Talked to a guy in northern Wisconsin and they are paying 450 a tonne for potash and we paid 475 and we are 2 hours from mine. Dumb dumb dumb

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                  • blackpowder
                    Senior Member
                    • Feb 2010
                    • 9315

                    #10
                    I remember hauling fertilizer out of Redwater in the 80s. Into MT. $100t less than home.
                    World price and domestic price I was told then. Yup. That's why some MT bills of lading loads wound up in Medicine Hat. Whatever.

                    18 or 19 years out of 20 it's cheaper now than spring. For whatever reason. Suit yourself. maybe start your own trucking company.

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