Zerohedge- Russia To Ban Fertilizer Exports To ‘Not Friendly’ Countries
Western Producer- Russia’s proposed ban adds fuel to fertilizer price fire
Russia is the world’s second largest producer of ammonia, urea and potash and the fifth largest producer of processed phosphates, according to institute. The country accounts for 23 percent of global ammonia exports as well as 14 percent of urea, 21 percent of potash and 10 percent of processed phosphate exports. Russia also supplies one-third of Europe’s natural gas, the main feedstock in producing nitrogen fertilizers.
China is responsible for another 10 percent of global urea exports and about one-third of the phosphate trade. It has banned exports of both commodities through the end of June. Together the two countries account for about one-quarter of the world’s urea exports and one-half of its phosphate shipments.
Bloomberg- European Fertilizer Output Cuts
Yara is temporarily curtailing production at Ferrara in Italy and Le Havre in France, the Oslo-based company said on Wednesday. Output of ammonia and urea at its European facilities will be just 45% of capacity by the end of this week. The two plants produce 1 million tons of ammonia and 900,000 tons a year of urea between them. Hungarian fertilizer producer Nitrogenmuvex is also temporarily halting production of ammonia due to high gas prices.
Who is it the sanctions are designed to hurt again?
Another case for Western Canada to better ourselves!! We have oil and gas, potash, uranium, grain and mixed farming/ranching, lumber, fresh water, hydro electricity, some sun and wind..
What’s holding us back? Oh right..
Zon. Not sure about your grasp of recent history but when Russia couldn’t produce enough grain to make a loaf of bread Canada gave them the money, operative word “gave”, to give Canadians farmers their own tax money back and Russia bought Canadian grain for free, with Canadian money. There must be at least one person out there that remembers this? We truly are a stupid people.
Yes sir, “The great grain robbery”..
My elder relatives are grain farmers and ranchers in Alberta since early 1900’s..
Also heard about Holodomor and crop failures from times gone by and how Canada helped them out..
Watch us give it away all over again!
The unwillingness to march to Ottawa a second time to hang ALL the bastards.
Fertilizer wars! A literal shit-storm
Yep, I already purchased all my veggie garden seeds, and a load of top soil is coming shortly. Oil is the economy’s life blood, when it goes up everything goes up with it. Under Trump it cost 50 to fill the Rogue, under Biden 98, thanks Trudy and his NDP lapdogs we’re getting crushed financially.
I did the same Rose. I expanded my garden at the farm and have all my seeds ordered.
Last summer it was all but impossible to find canning lids. Reminds, me, should find some. Jars, so-so, rings, OK.
We used old jars last year and one lost integrity and chipped when we opened the vacuum seal on our beets.
It is prudent to get new jars.
While on the topic, can anyone please suggest good sources for seeds?
I can’t wait to get gardening.
depends where you live. In canada I use OSC from Waterloo, Ontario and William Dam seeds near hamilton. Others are happy with Versey and Stokes.
Vesey Seeds.
Johnny’s Seeds, a longtime breeder in Maine has a big selection, and extensive growing advice including videos.
The incredible see company is good as well – https://www.incredibleseeds.ca/
Thank you farmerboy and Toad.
T&T in Manitoba.
West Coast Seeds on the Island or lower mainland.
West Coast Seeds and T&T are our go tos’ and one out of Bowden Ab for potatoes.
My wife harvests vegetable , flower and herbs seeds every year as well.
Baker Creek has the largest seed selection in the known world. Its possible you could pick up a copy of their massive catalog at Chapters, if not you can order online.
https://www.rareseeds.com/
The dollar store sells replacement lids and rings for 1.25.
Thx, I’ll have a look.
Was in Canadian Tire south in Lethbridge this afternoon. No lids, no rings. Fair number of wide mouth & narrow mouth jars, complete. Talked to another shopper there who noted that the Gem website had a posted message that they were no longer going to produce lids or rings. Maybe somebody from the aftermarket will take up the slack.
In fairness, it is a bit early for canning supplies to be on the shelves in CT.
In Lethbridge, you probably don’t have to fertilize at all. LOL
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Funny how nobody’s laughing at Preppers anymore.
And take a look at the price of reloading supplies.
Reminds me… gotta go dust off my Dillon.
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I wonder how many people only have concrete to sprinkle their seeds on? There is a Biblical verse about seeds falling on rock.
Snap
If you can find reloading supplies, that is.. Seems like large rifle primers are hardest to find. Selections of powder are hit or miss, (no pun) and bullets, same.
My relative in Colorado states same, primers being the hardest components to find. Some people are even going so far as to reload the primers themselves! Also .380acp FMJ ammo is a tough one to track down..
Saw the pallets of canning jars at Canadian Tire a few weeks ago, along with seeds. Bowden seeds are good, but hard to find a retailer here. Best to hold some seed back from your crops, as the bought seeds are sometimes not viable..
UFA stores and co-op garden centers are good places to get growing supplies, UFA usually has a good selection of seed potatoes.
Taking out some overgrown hedges in landscaping boxes, this year. Replacing with vegetables. Seen some neighbours with front yard (covid) gardens, instead of flowers, the past couple years..
Pioneers (not counting natives, as they were nomadic) were the original “preppers” if you didn’t have enough food to make it through the winter and get stuff going again in the spring, you were hooped!
There was no store in the early days! My grandfather and great grandfather opened their own, went broke twice giving out too much credit!
Anyone who has a .380 should trade it in on a 9mm.
9mm ammo is everywhere, by the trailerload, to say nothing of the ballistics.
I have a very $$rich$$ Uncle, who unfortunately is not in my stream of inheritance. He is a Stanford Business Grad. … from the 40’s … long before Stanford went woke. He “retired” years ago, and lives in Jackson Hole. Since his retirement, he liked to buy and financially-rehabilitate companies who produce basic materials. I remember him telling me how he was currently (25 years ago) rehabbing a Potash Manufacturer. What!? I asked? Potash? What in the world attracted you to THAT industry? He then educated me about just how ESSENTIAL potash was to food production.
Seems I’m about to get another education … real FAST about how truly essential Potash is …
+++Kenji
Food, water, shelter is where we are headed. Goverment will continue the climate non sense to suppress energy. No nat gas, no urea and how many actually know this. Take comfort then in trudeaus just transition. The transition to famines. Enjoy !
Well, from time-to-time in days past, Kate has had a hashtag on some of her posts called “We Need A Famine.”
Of course, the people who will suffer the most will be the average Jane and Joe (as is always the case during a regime collapse), and the people who desperately need to learn that famines are created by governments will not in fact learn that lesson, because they’ll be too busy trusting their government as that same government wildly spins “explainers” and think-pieces in the legacy media — said stories will blame everyone except the government itself.
Food, water, shelter and lead.
Bear this in mind Kuz, a hungry man has nothing to lose. He will die taking what someone is trying to keep from him. How many he will take with him cannot be calculated.
Looks like ‘Fly-over Country’ will bounce back our economy with fertilizer, wheat and cattle. Take that you work-at-home, office-fearing, latte-dependant urban elite.
When it gets really bad, those urban elite die in their homes of starvation too afraid to leave for fear of snipers. Think Sarajevo.
Burgess Shale-
Partially true. Don’t forget you are the captive of globalists, and there is little you can do, short of ridding the government of them.
How long before The Turd taxes home gardening? … with a special excise tax? perhaps a gov’t permit will be required. Renewable at $120/year.
The Turd will be in a garden before that.
He does remind me of fertilizer.
Well, if my fertilizer and fuel costs go the way they are headed, I will grow less and run less cows. There will be a lot of folks selling off cows in the fall so prices at the store will still increase but at auction they will drop. Folks will get out of cattle like the last time this happened and wait it out.
The net result will likely be less production domestically rather than more, at least as far as smaller producers are concerned.
John s – Until retail sales in beef become competitive, there is very little producers can do to capitalize on high prices in grocery stores.
In most cities, there are 2 supermarkets, 3 max, and very few butchers, so there is no competition.
I know an acquaintance who raises tomatoes for fresh sales. The price he gets has dipped as low as 2cents a pound. Funny, I have never in my life seen them even as low as 10 cents a pound.
Doesn’t Ukraine produce a bunch of grain?
Now with the war going on. I guess the growing season has moved out for awhile.
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“Doesn’t Ukraine produce a bunch of grain?”
The ‘Breadbasket of the Soviet Union’ I believe it was called.
No worries though… in WWII histories I’ve read, folks just
substituted sawdust for wheat.
Yummy, yummy sawdust.
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That was funny NEO. The “Breadbasket of the Soviet Union”. Now point out the disconnect and why Russia has anything to do with “the” Ukraine.
VOWG…..
Yeah, yeah….
The “connection” remembered in Ukraine is the Holodomor.
That is the time when at least 3.5MILLION Ukrainians starved to death while the Moscow government shipped enough wheat out of Ukraine to feed 12 million people. Shipped it to Russia.
That was the time when Ukrainian farmers were being shot for gleaning and keeping tiny amounts of grain from field that have already been harvested.
That was the time when Ukrainian villages were being blacklisted for not meeting grain production quotas set by Moscow.
Like the sound of that “connection”? I’d be fighting for independence, too.
Sanctions have never stopped a war. They do, however, provide boundless opportunities for anonymous middlemen to rake in huge profits buying at a discount and reselling at a premium to unsuspecting buyers.
Nutrien stock is poppin, Nee: Potash Corp.
To the moon, baby!
Nutrien Ltd
TSE: NTR
126.80 CAD +12.74 (11.15%)
They have a nice jet, based in YYC..
Channeling a progressive : universal basic income paid in digital currency that can only be spent on government rationed portions of food and energy fixes this.
If we’re going down the victory garden path we might as well have ww2 rationing, with 70s stagflation wage and price controls, 80s cold war and massive federal debt…with a modern big brother twist.
I’ve already started seeds. Planning to have bigger plants in the greenhouse earlier this spring which means nightly frost watch and covering/uncovering plants daily. The outdoor vegetable garden and orchard is at the mercy of the fickle, unpredictable and occasionally downright obnoxious Saskatchewan weather but root crops and berries almost always survive. I second the advice to buy canning lids early because they were in short supply last year.
Crisis, crisis everywhere. The cork is going to pop at some point.
And once Trudeau and Biden force us all to drive electric cars… and a conflict erupts with China who controls 90% of rare earth metals required to make electric cars, and China says no more rare earth metals for you.
We will be f****d
Electric car? That’s funny.
The Turd has your bicycle all picked out. Guess where it was manufactured.
Doubled my garden last year. Doubling again this year and putting up a fence.
The Greens are getting what they want – starvation in the developing world and greater poverty in the developed world.
Step one build your own compost, step two-buy rain barrels lots of them I have five around the workshop and house. Plant food amongst your flower gardens. Rain barrels have doubled in price, I bought mine through a charity event for 60 a barrel and they came with the lid-screen and hose attachment so you can join them together. I think the website that has the charity events is Rainbarrel.ca. I haven’t built a bunker yet but I can live under the minihome if I must.
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