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High input costs causing farmers to seek solutions on fertilizer

Farmers continue to battle high input costs.

Craig Dick, with Phospholutions, tells Brownfield the current price situation for phosphorus is as bad as it’s ever been.

“China has curtailed exports, Brazil isn’t really producing. We have the countervailing duties reducing imports of phosphate fertilizers into the United States,” he says. “That means the the price of phosphorus fertilizer is going to remain high for the foreseeable future.

He says the company’s RhizoSorb phosphate fertilizer can help improve productivity and increase farmers’ return on investment.

“The metal oxide that we put into the fertilizer absorbs the phosphate to it, so when we apply our phosphate fertilizer to the soil, it doesn’t immediately tie up in the soil,” he says. “That has a lot of benefits in terms of increasing plant uptake, but also reducing runoff.”

Dick says RhizoSorb can reduce phosphate runoff up to 78% and reduce leaching up to 84%.

Brownfield interviewed Dick during the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa last week.

AUDIO: Craig Dick, Phospholutions