Farm management solutions
We work collaboratively with farmers and value chain partners to develop farm management solutions that aim to increase productivity, profitability and environmental stewardship.
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Nutrien Ag Solutions
Our retail locations are in seven countries. They offer a wide range of products and services to help growers worldwide feed the future.
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Our Approach
We believe we have unique capabilities in the agricultural value chain because we have direct relationships with our farmer customers. From pre-season planning to facilitating post-harvest verification, we focus on farmers’ needs by providing customized farm management solutions (products, services, technology, and programming) to help improve crop productivity while minimizing impact on the environment. Across our footprint, we tailor our global approach to meet regional needs. By identifying core activities, such as conducting field-level data analyses for our customers, we strive to validate and verify measurable outcomes such as crop performance, nutrient use efficiency, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, soil health and water quality and use, if applicable.
Enabling activities
Sustainable agriculture
The following table summarizes our products, services, technologies and programs that we use or offer to enable our approach.
Advanced plant nutrition
- Fertilizers provide nutrients, such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, that are essential for growing healthy crops. Advanced plant nutrition products, such as enhanced efficiency fertilizers (“EEFs”) also aim to improve environmental outcomes, such as reduced nitrous oxide emissions from applied fertilizer, reduced leaching to ground and surface waters, reduced ammonia loss to air and improved nitrogen-use efficiency. Other products in this category, such as biostimulants, aim to improve the availability and uptake of nutrients by the crop or help reduce stress reactions in plants.
Crop protection
- Crop protection products and practices are designed to maintain crop quality and minimize yield losses by managing plant diseases, weeds and pests. Herbicides and pesticides aim to reduce crop loss and maximize crop yield. Nutrien determines crop protection product suitability based on scientific evidence, regulatory requirements and a holistic product rating system. We promote the safe and responsible use of products.
Seed
- We offer customers a broad portfolio of high-quality seed options, such as pest- and drought-resistant seeds that can help maximize crop yields in difficult climates. Seed hybrids and varieties combined with the latest trait technology are tested across geographies and environments.
Livestock solutions
- Nutrien’s Australian livestock business connects clients with buyers and provides products and services to manage and improve animal health, productivity and efficiency in the livestock, dairy and equine industries. We offer feed supplements that aim to improve feed efficiency and liveweight gains and/or reduce methane emissions from livestock.
FAQs
Nutrient stewardship
Nutrients such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus are essential in helping plants grow. One source of nutrients is fertilizers. When fertilizers are applied to fields, we promote best management practices that strive to improve crop yields and farming economics while mitigating potential environmental impacts. Two questions we are frequently asked:
What are best management practices for nutrient application?
To help keep products and nutrients where they are most effective, reduce losses to the environment and support economical product application, we promote best practices in nutrient application.
4R Nutrient Stewardship
An international program promoting the application of the “Right Source of plant nutrients at the Right Rate, Right Time and Right Place.”
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Fertcare
An Australian-based program that offers training and advice for fertilizer application to optimize productivity and minimize environment and food safety risks.
Learn moreHow does nitrogen fertilizer application generate GHG emissions?
Nitrogen fertilizer application can produce two types of GHG emissions: carbon dioxide (CO₂) and nitrous oxide (N₂0). CO₂ is released from urea forms of nitrogen fertilizer because it is part of the urea molecule. N₂O is released when nitrate forms of nitrogen fertilizer are converted by microorganisms in the soil. In both cases, managing nitrogen fertilizer is critical to reducing emissions from agriculture.
Learn more about the nitrogen cycle or watch a video here.
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