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Oct. 3, 2008 - Prairie grain farmers are having second thoughts about what to do
next year.
Despite a good harvest this fall they are spooked by high
fertilizer costs and tumbling commodity prices.
The cost of anhydrous ammonia, a popular form of nitrogen fertilizer, now costs 14-hundred dollars a tonne 400 dollars more than it did last fall. Meanwhile, the cost of phosphate fertilizer has doubled since last year to between 13-hundred and 14-hundred dollars a tonne. |
