Fertilizer thoughts

[bucket]

Booked 610 esn, 575 11-52.

Pickup jan/feb

Local retailer is now quoting a price with a $4/Mt "blending" charge... gotta get that ROI somehow.

I thought that is what 3 and 4 tank carts are for..blending....so you can buy straight product....

[grassfarmer]

Paid $515 for 46.0.0 yesterday with dealer storing until spring. $85 down on the year.

[helmsdale]

Booked 610 esn, 575 11-52.

Pickup jan/feb

Local retailer is now quoting a price with a $4/Mt "blending" charge... gotta get that ROI somehow.

[flea beetle]

Just bought today. Delivered in January. N-$487/T P-$653/T K-$458/T S-$437/T

High? Low? East Central Alberta.

Supposed to start going up due to fertilizer companies idling production.

[malleefarmer]

Good mates with a commission trader of fert buys fert on sells makes his 20 per tonne regardless of price only small part of his business reckons can’t go much lower suggest jan will be low point for April delivery

Basically $130 per tonne less than last year here

[fjlip]

SHHH....we are all competitors, only you got the SPECIAL price, but don't tell...

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Does anyone know where to get current Average Weekly Retail fertilizer
prices without a subscription?
Usually book end of year but wonder about maybe a price drop between
now and spring and so waiting and want to monitor- without asking
salespersons and having to endlessly answer phone during traditionally
slow season.

Bryce Knorr does one for the US market.

https://www.farmprogress.com/story-weekly-fertilizer-review-fertilizer-prices-could-be-bottoming-17-30462 https://www.farmprogress.com/story-weekly-fertilizer-review-fertilizer-prices-could-be-bottoming-17-30462

[ajl]

Last number of years the fertilizer price dropped for any seeding after the May long weekend around here. So far buying when needed has not cost much more than prebuying and storing fertilizer. Too much risk to prebuy and have the fertilizer company store it. I write the check after it is in my truck. With operating loan renewals becoming an issue, it is likely the spring shortages do not materialize for the third year in a row.

[wade]

Does anyone know where to get current Average Weekly Retail fertilizer
prices without a subscription?
Usually book end of year but wonder about maybe a price drop between
now and spring and so waiting and want to monitor- without asking
salespersons and having to endlessly answer phone during traditionally
slow season.

[helmsdale]

At $8/mile you should go back trucking! Can likely add a carbon tax surcharge on top too. I expect freight rates to keep going up, gonna be harder to find and keep drivers going forward with the new licensing rules.

Personally I didn't mind the gig. Met alot of great farmers, and got paid to tour a tremendous amount of western north america... It was one thing to reason with a wife/gf that you were going to be gone till the weekend, or even possibly getting screwed over on your reset somewhere remote. It's entirely another when you're sitting in southern Idaho, mom is sick with the flu, and your kids are wondering if you'll be home to take care of them when mom is feeling ill, and on top of it the wife's grandma passed away...

kid: "It's not that far, you can be home tonight right dad?"

If I'd had my way, i'd have been wheels up and home the next morning, but unloads, reloads, and government issued log books said I couldn't make it home for at least two days...

The gig is certainly not for the faint of heart, or even the happily married!