Source: Ron Lyseng, Producer.com, March 9, 2018
About 20 percent of prairie farmland relies on NH3 for its nitrogen source. However new rules might see 80 percent of tanks sitting this spring.
It appears the federal government might have used regulations to freeze up to 80 percent of the NH3 nurse tanks in Canada for this spring.
Approximately 20 percent of the cropped acres in Western Canada are fertilized with anhydrous ammonia, and most farmers and fertilizer dealers can’t make major operational changes in the remaining time before seeding starts.
