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The
Bezos’ Earth Fund Will Like Exactrix?
How and why is a new energy era happening?
Why
are we entering the greatest era of environmental regulation and
storage of Green House Gas, or CO2, N2O and CH4.
If the goal is make a
lot of money you have come to right spot.
Wind Power Cost reached 1.7 cents per
KWH. Solar Array hits 1.3 cents per KWH in early 2020.
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Exactrix has new and
better ways to make Ammonia and Apply with Stabilized TAPPKTS with
Micros like Zinc and Manganese.
Less
is More and Agricultural GHG can be controlled with Exactrix
Technology.
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How is GHG controlled? Can two pictures tell the story?
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simple picture tells the story. Winter wheat crop is propagated
with No-tillage of the soil and is shown during the winter period
a growing crop is fertilized with Exactrix® TAPPKTS and
No-tillage, P-51C Mustang openers.
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The application rate is at least ½ of the university top dressed
fertilizer recommendation. With TAPPKTS plus micros the highest
quality performance is due to timing, uniformity, positional
availability, nutrient chemistry and No-tillage into growing
roots.
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The lowest GHG emission is Exactrix/Yielder® No-Tillage Systems
for application of Anhydrous Ammonia, and Poly Phosphate with Thio
Sulfates of Potash, plus micros.
What
is TAPPS and TAPPKTS?
Who
invented it?
Does
it really work that well?
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How did Exactrix® come up with this patented process? Is The
Process Unknown or Known?
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super high nutrient blended uniformity, at 1% application CV at
NH3 liquid injection pressure to 300 PSI.
The soil slot or the soil vertical column of nutrient has the
highest crop availability and requires the least amount of NPKS.
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140-20-20-20S-2M TAPPPKTS plus micros. A 300 bushel per acre
irrigated corn rate would be 140 N (Ammonium), 20 P (Poly), 20K
(KTS®), 20S (KTS®, Thio-sul®),
20S
(KTS®), 2 Micro, Zn, Mn, Fe, Cu, B, Mo.
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Above the ground line you can see how the crystals look?
Exactrix® TAPPS is shown in a cotton rotation with corn at
Amarillo, Texas. It is true that our best soils come alive in a
more natural system.
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Commercial nutrients become crop stimulants at correct rates
with Exactrix. Exactrix TAPPKTS is not the old fashioned plant
food as originally promoted by the fertilizer manufacturers like
Cominco.
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Nebraska high speed banding in hybrid seed corn production at
Shelton, NE.
Bands of TAPPS and TAPPKTS go deep into the soil in No-tillage
production of hybridized seed corn.
So What Is The
Problem?
Three Green House Gases or GHG are major agricultural problems and
are greatly reduced by following the following the design criteria
of Exactrix Global Systems proposed by Guy J Swanson.
CO2, Carbon Dioxide
is reduced by storing carbon in the soil by using No-tillage. Crop
Nutrients and seed are placed in the soil without a lifting of the
soil exposing rapid oxidation of the soil stored carbon into the
atmosphere.
N2O, Nitrous Oxide
is a heavy player in the emissions by top dressed commercial
fertilizer since it damages the Ozone layer. It is now known that
Thio-sulfates like Thio-Sul® and KTS® keep the NH4 or ammonium as
ammonium when placed deep in the soil with Exactrix Vertical
Vermiculated Bands of NPKS.
CH4, Methane
is emitted and from fossil fuels and degradation of manures applied
at the soil surface or improperly processed. Manures must be banded
to improve GHG and Methane emission.
A special
note from Wikipedia: Nitrous oxide occurs in small amounts in the
atmosphere, but has been found to be a major scavenger of
stratospheric ozone,
with an impact comparable to that of
CFCs.
It is estimated that 30% of the N2O in the atmosphere is
the result of human activity, chiefly
agriculture.[4]
Being the
third most important long-lived
greenhouse gas,
nitrous oxide substantially contributes to
global warming.[5]
In 2020 commercial hybrid corn has a bright future with 100 million
acres of production proposed.
About 25% of North America’s high value land mass of soil storing
carbon acres will have corn growing upon the land absorbing CO2.
Ethanol does out compete gasoline, 5 more years it will be 50% of
gasoline’s GHG Emissions.
A National Report finds ethanol has lower emissions than gasoline,
43% lower and about 2% per year lower to 2022.
Don’t forget NH3 has the lowest carbon footprint of all commercial
nitrogen fertilizers in production of corn for Ethanol.
Two Big Gains, Better Yields and Less Nutrients, such as
Exactrix TAPPS in VRT-Site Specific Application at crystalline
chemistry depths of 7 inches.
A fresh report, A Life-Cycle Analysis of the Greenhouse Gas
Emissions of Corn-Based Ethanol, has found that GHG emissions
associated with corn-based ethanol in the United States are about
43% lower than gasoline when measured on an energy-equivalent basis.
The report, prepared for the USDA Climate Change Program Office by
ICF, found greater life cycle GHG benefits from corn ethanol than a
number of earlier studies did, driven by improvements in ethanol
production. No doubt Exactrix contributes greatly for all owners
across the Corn Belt.
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Farmers are producing corn more efficiently and using
conservation practices that reduce GHG emissions, including reduced
tillage and No-tillage.
Mustang Openers help by banding deep to 7 inches in No-tillage.
Cover crops help make high speed application possible with improved
nitrogen management.
Exactrix TAPPS formulators require .583 lbs. N instead of 1.1 lbs. N
as per the University recommendation.
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Agriculture can make a major contribution to reducing CO2
Carbon Dioxide, CH4 Methane, and N20 Nitrous Oxide
emissions.
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Producers of commodity crops can drastically reduce GHG emissions
by using Exactrix Technology to Stabilize Nitrogen as NH4 and
slowing or stopping the conversion to nitrate.
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Agricultural can make ammonia locally to conserve and provide
energy with very low emission using wind power.
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We
can raise good crops….and make a good living and save the planet
with accurate placement of nutrients and doing it No-till.
“The best way to reduce GHG emissions is to not use as much
fertilizer and diesel power, to stop applying fertilizer to the
surface of the soil, and place the fertilizer as deep as it can go
without tearing up the soil and releasing CO2 and N2O.”
Nitrogen Fertilizer provides 39% of the Energy Input in corn.
Reducing use of Nitrogen. Economic use efficiency can be improved
at least 50% with Exactrix® uniformity and dual product TAPPS and
TAPPKTS banding deep in the top soil and away from the oxidation
environment. Yields greatly improve.
The next mystery is N2O, Nitrous Oxide emission which is inside the
conversion of NH4 to mobile nitrate. Exactrix allows for NH4 to be
absorbed directly into the formation of plant amino acids and
proteins.
In fact less Exactrix NH4 is required and this is why neutralizing
lime requirements are eventually reduced.
The purpose of TAPPS and TAPPKTS is to create a vertical band of
Ammonium, (Nitrogen) or NH4+ positive valence. The crop can then
directly absorb NH4 which the crop prefers over soil mobile NO3.
This statement is especially true early in the plants life.
Exactrix TAPPKTS plus Micros slows down and or delays the bacteria.
The Exactrix TAPPKTS plus Micros is applied in a very deep soil slot
(3/8 inch width x 9 inch deep) and in a very limited soil area of
about .5% to 1% of the top 1 foot to top soil depending on the
rotation.
The Exactrix process is a lot different than the old pressure
reducing NH3 systems which spread or bow tie the application with a
shank tillage effect and never going really deep in the soil
Denitrification is inside the step to NO2- nitrate and eventually to
negative valence NO3- or mobile nitrate. The GHG, N2O or Nitrous
Oxide can be released in this denitrification process that has
limited oxygen available to make nitrite NO2 and nitrate NO3.
Keeping certain soil bacteria, (nitrous Ammonias and Nitrobacteria)
that operate under these very wet soil conditions under control is
accomplished by the known chemistry of Thio-sulfates and Micros. The
micros, Zn, Cu, Mn, B and Fe are well known to stop the propagation
of bacterial and fungus blooms.
Exactrix vermiculated vertical bands of TAPPKTS at depths to 9
inches parches the nitrobacteria by using Thio-Sulfates such as
Thio-Sul® or KTS® and anti-bacterial metals like Zinc, Mn and Cu to
shield and protect the highly crop available state of crop preferred
ammonium NH4.
NH4 is ammonium and the growing plant prefers ammonium to make amino
acids and proteins. At soil pH above 7.8 and below 6.2 pH it is well
know how important it is keep calcium and aluminum from sequestering
nutrients like highly reactive placed phosphate. The triple super
ammonization or crystallization of these Ammonium Poly Phosphates or
10-34-0 is critical.
TAPPKTS works very well at high a low soil pH to develop a powerful
and economic crop.
For certain the deep placement of Mustang Yielder® blade provides
the root target for up 15 inches of soil width (nominal rooting
column) when placed at the 7.5 inch depth.
The vertical band receives a balance of Sulfur products (Ammonium
Thio-sulfates, Thio-Sul® 12-0-0-26S and Potassium Thio-sulfates,
KTS®, 0-0-26-17S) and metal nutrients like Zn, Mn, Cu, B, Fe, Mo to
keep the nitrous-ammonias and nitrobacteria from converting the
banded products to the aerosol GHG N2O, nitrous oxide, and the
negative valence or soil mobile Nitrate, NO3.
By banding and using No-tillage openers (24 to 26 inch dia.) to a
depth of 6 inches to 9 inches the conversion to N20 (A powerful GHG)
and to mobile nitrate (wetting front mobility), NO3 can be greatly
avoided using timing and a powerful and healthy crop root system
from No-tillage.
Proper soil drainage is also required to reduce denitrification.
Manufacturing NH3 Locally,
Exactrix Review of Power Costs.
The Lowest is Idaho at 8 cents.
The Great Plains
Reporter has news based on cost per KWH or Kilowatts Per Hour.
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The average cost is 12
cents per KWH at the consumer level across the country.
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The highest cost is 33
cents in Hawaii.
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Idaho is lowest cost in
the nation at 8 cents and mainly older hydro power plants, wind, coal
and some nuclear.
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Washington cost is 8.2
cents and mainly hydro power, nuclear and some wind.
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Nebraska cost is 9 cents
with coal and minor amounts of hydro, nuclear and wind.
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Kansas cost is 10.5
cents per KW.
If you own a used
Caterpillar Gen Set, a 40 year old D-399 at 1,000 KW you can make power
with diesel for about 3.5 cents per KWH.
But the low break
mean effective pressure engine, and also the low rpm design wears out
eventually. So the producer will need to find another used
hospital standby Gen set, D-399 that was built in Mossville, IL in 1975.
If your goal is
40,000 hours before rebuild….A natural gas version of the
399 will go to 40,000 hours if it burns very clean, natural gas as a G-399.
But you will need at least two G-399, V-16 engines since they are
derated to 650 hp each compared to the diesel D-399, Marine rating.
Since the G-399,
V-16 engines will probably not run more than 1,800 to 2,200 hours per
year. The engine design of G-399 has solved the uptime problem for about
18 to 20 years.
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Big Cat Gens also require maintenance. A man must be dedicated to the
engine….about 20 hours per month….or 240 hours per year.
So for a big center
pivot operator (100 pivots) can make power including some infrastructure
for the power transmission to the electric driven pumps for about 4.5
cents per KWH.
Normally on site
power with very clean Natural Gas will make a big difference.
Full power may not be required more than 20% of the time over 3 months
seasonal use.
This
is the reason the petroleum miners are not using or fueling flare gas and
making power in the shale fields of ND and Texas.
The
mined flare gas has impurities requiring a cleanup at a centralized
processing plant like the Jayhawk Processing plant at the Hugoton Gas
Field at Ulysses, KS.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-price-of-electricity-in-your-state
The KWH price average is calculated for each state.
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For sure, Wind Power is gaining and bulk rates are low as 2 cents
per KWH….but not always reliable. As reported by Proton Ventures
Dubai has now accomplished a major shift in economics. Wind Power at
1.7 KWH was accomplished in 2019.
This is where the NH3 battery comes in to absorb the fluctuation of
the wind vs. the demand. A large accumulator is required for
storage and that becomes NH3 for power and for food.
Note: The Kellogg single train compressors may need to be
phased out due to more localized needs and varying wind speeds.
Smaller NH3 multiple train compressors may be required to process
NH3.
NH3 is a great place to store power under pressure or refrigerated
at atmospheric pressure in very large non-pressure vessels.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/wind-energy-is-one-of-the-cheapest-sources-of-electricity-and-its-getting-cheaper/
Bigger Windmills.
Why Anhydrous Ammonia is a power source? A good article is included
from the Scientific American.
Note: If enough local wind powered plants were built NH3 could be
priced at 42 cents per gallon or about
10 cents per lb. of N.
This would break the Oligarchy of NH3 on the Great Plains due to
local delivery and alternate use of NH3 for power.
No
more Mega Scale, 3,300 ton per day NH3 plants would remain be on the
drawing board for Agricultural NH3 but maybe for marine power at
seaports and serious pipeline delivery for stored power.
Locally Priced at Your Farm Site at 10 cents per
pound of N.
Wind Power can make a big difference. The Cost of nutrients may
return to the early 2,000 era at $120 to $150 per ton of NH3 by
2030.
NPKS nutrients priced in the 8 cent to 9 cent range as the power
costs come way down.
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Windmills helped
the pioneers settle the Great Plains.
The windmill population of a different scale is coming back
wherever you go in the USA and Canada
As a crop nutrient NH3 (80% total built is Agricultural) has the
lowest carbon foot print of any fertilizer.
And NH3 when built from wind power and hydro power has the ability
to help stabilize the climate.
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About 3% of all the Natural gas mined is used to build NH3. A
minor part of the Natural Gas market but significant on the Great
Plains because of the stranded Natural Gas.
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No-tillage farming systems applying NH3 help to store the carbon.
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Tillage of agricultural soils releases tremendous amounts of
carbon into the atmosphere.
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Diesel powered pickups will soon be using NH3/Diesel injection mix
for more power, longer engine life and cleaner burning without def
fluid.
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In 2016 176 million tonnes of NH3 was produced. One of the most
common inorganic compounds produced in the world.
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Production of NH3 is led by China at 31.9% and the USA at 7%.
If windmills can make electrical power for 2 cents per KW
(Scientific American Report included), then Anhydrous Ammonia
should be made from syn gas (pure hydrogen). Pure syngas built by
means of electrolysis is now competitive on a local basis.
PUD’s or Public Power companies should be making NH3 and not
necessarily farmer owned Coops it appears.
A very big plus is local manufacture of the NH3 with a changing
world demand for food and power.
Thus a slight shift away from natural gas making syngas (pure
hydrogen) and more chances to make a dual functional product that
transports as Heavy Hydrogen, NH3, in lower cost carbon steel
pressure vessels and fabricated carbon steel pipelines.
Norway started with dams powered hydrolysis, The TVA started with
dam powered hydrolysis. Norwegian Yara seems to think that hydro
works. Yara has been using Electrolysis to build NH3 since
1911. Yara is the largest of all manufacturers of NH3 in the
world.
“Anhydrous Ammonia becomes a storage battery for wind and water
power. NH3 is utilized to make power around the world.”
NH3 is totally clean burning, a non-carcinogen, and in most cases
except for agriculture , a clean nitrogen returns to the
atmosphere where it came from.
NH3 is now planned for ocean shipping engine power due to low
emissions and a condensed power package.
It will not be long before your Cat diesel engine will run on 30%
NH3 Def fluid (urea) is not required.
Your new Caterpillar baseball cap will say. Caterpillar,
Diesel/NH3 Power.
Or in Washington, Caterpillar/Water Power. Or in Kansas,
Caterpillar/Wind Power.
Mariah may not be the monster of the Great Plains but
a gift from God just like the Columbia River.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DTRAy_EKiY
The fastest growth in the world in NH3 is in the United States.
A tremendous CO2 and NO2 output in China, A big problem is facing
China building almost 4 times more ammonia and 80% is coal fired
ammonia and top dressed urea.
Reducing GHG is job one of Exactrix and Exactrix owners. Both CO2
and NO2 can be reduced to miniscule amounts from 40% to 5% to 15%
Exactrix TAPPKTS Deep Banding No-Tillage, Technique.
Crop Rotations often determine how low we can go on GHG.
http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_01_31_2017.html
http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_02_17_2020.html
http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_05_17_2019.html
http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_02_18_2020.html
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Small scale ammonia production
Proton Ventures is able to design a small-scale ammonia plant with
the NFUEL unites. As a feedstock for this ammonia production
electricity produced from renewable sources (wind turbines, PV) can
be used. This new concept makes it possible to produce green
decentralized ammonia which can be further used as:
As a basic design Proton Ventures offers three different capacities
(see table). Within the range of the capacities Proton Ventures
deals with the supply and demand of the energy market in order to
produce decentralized ammonia.
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Exactrix® Mustang, TAPPKTS Formulators apply NH3 at pressures to 300
PSI and combine flows with APP, ATS, KTS and micros.
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The Exactrix® NH3 becomes 166% more crop effective in No-tillage
farming with precision.
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No-Tillage in combination with Exactrix reduces the need for
nitrogen.
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Rotational Band Loading of TAPPKTS at 7 to 8 inch depths is
possible with Mustang Openers.
You need to know that every third ammonia plant in production of
NH3 for agriculture is not required with Exactrix® TAPPKTS injected
deep in the soil.
Good News, Why is Ammonia Going to $1,000 per ton.
Ammonia Pricing,
Not a Problem with Exactrix Technology and Storage.
Why is ammonia
going to $1,000 per ton or 61 cent N.
Because it went
to $800 per ton previously.
Your best bet is
still Exactrix.
Natural Gas
Pricing in Million BTU
Koch Bros. made
Exactrix TAPPS formulators a really good decision for the top
producers in Kansas.
In fact Koch
Bros. could be singularly responsible for the Exactrix success
story.
If ammonia was
$200 per ton….not many producers would own an Exactrix system….just
producers that wanted the top yield.
So why not get
top yield with less invested…and take a 12% greater profit margin.
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Natural Gas Wholesale pricing at Henry Hub, OK.
Very low at $1.85. How low can it go. This pricing stops wind power
and nuclear power interest.
Retail Pricing of Ammonia in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and
North Dakota. Spring 2020 DTN $496 to $585.
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Why don’t producers just build Anhydrous Ammonia themselves like
they used to do up to 2005?
Because there is not a competitive climate in Kansas. Producers
need to take control of the manufacturing or just not use as much
NH3 as TAPPS.
Natural Gas Pricing has nothing to do with building Ammonia with a
12% profit industry standard.
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Anhydrous Ammonia |
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Year |
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Price |
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Year |
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Price |
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Year |
|
Price |
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1990 |
. . . . . . |
$185 |
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2000 |
. . . . . . |
$209 |
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2010 |
. . . . . . |
$474 |
|
1991 |
. . . . . . |
$194 |
|
2001 |
. . . . . . |
$385 |
|
2011 |
. . . . . . |
$744 |
|
1992 |
. . . . . . |
$189 |
|
2002 |
. . . . . . |
$228 |
|
2012 |
. . . . . . |
$812 |
|
1993 |
. . . . . . |
$196 |
|
2003 |
. . . . . . |
$374 |
|
2013 |
. . . . . . |
$877 |
|
1994 |
. . . . . . |
$232 |
|
2004 |
. . . . . . |
$366 |
|
2014 |
. . . . . . |
$888 |
|
1995 |
. . . . . . |
$323 |
|
2005 |
. . . . . . |
$394 |
|
2015 |
. . . . . . |
NA |
|
1996 |
. . . . . . |
$287 |
|
2006 |
. . . . . . |
$489 |
|
2016 |
. . . . . . |
NA |
|
1997 |
. . . . . . |
$288 |
|
2007 |
. . . . . . |
$500 |
|
2017 |
. . . . . . |
NA |
|
1998 |
. . . . . . |
$237 |
|
2008 |
. . . . . . |
$731 |
|
2018 |
. . . . . . |
NA |
|
1999 |
. . . . . . |
$190 |
|
2009 |
. . . . . . |
$640 |
|
2019 |
. . . . . . |
NA |
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Accordingly Natural Gas is now $1.85 per MBTU requiring about $66 of
Natural Gas and $15 of electricity to build 1 ton US NH3 at Dodge
City, KS. Cost is $81.00 per ton…with about 75 to 80 employees to
build 1,000 ton per day.
The wholesale price appears to be about $250.00 per ton at Dodge
City and Borger, Texas….So an estimate of 3 x markup to wholesale 1
ton of ammonia and at least 6 to 7 times to get it to the producer.
So for the Ammonia Manufacturing operation at Dodge City, KS 1,000
times $170 is $170,000 per day of pure profit.
So for the Ammonia Retailing system about the same of $170,000 per
day to cover the overhead and make a profit.
Now for the philosophy of the non-competitive fertilizer Industry so
they do not have to build NH3 storage and reduce their prices….
the role of Urea and the Third World.
Raise the Ammonia Price high enough to force small, (not well
capitalized) producers to consider Urea and dry fertilizer spread
over the top….with a 30% to 50% loss of surface applied Nitrogen to
the environment. This approach looks a lot like China
loosing 2/3 of their Nitrogen to the environment.
In 2019/2020 there are tremendous losses of dry Urea Nitrogen at
Dodge City , KS, right next to the ammonia plant….on
high pH soils….Coops are spreading dry Urea fertilizer
all winter long for Milo production in May of 2020….about 5 to 6
months on top of the high pH soil surface.
This is a very bad practice and promoted by Coops with poor
management and paying homage to Koch Bros.
So who makes these decisions to make giant margins when producers
are failing, The Koch Bros in Wichita make this decision…..and
nothing to do with producer driven economics and cost of production.
A monopoly in KS…with the closure of the Magellan Pipeline…..Kansas
Ammonia Pricing is controlled by Dodge City and Wichita and Nutrient
in Borger, Texas.
Plot as solution…..Buy an Exactrix TAPPS formulator system set the
tractor controller at .6 of nominal….and put the NH3 producers on
notice….you do not need as much NH3 to raise a good crop with TAPPS
and TAPPKTS.
And you can raise more with Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS formulators.
What is TAPPS and TAPPKTS? Here is top production Tip.
http://www.exactrix.com/EWAC.htm A complete
compendium of Exactrix training and development. Sign up for news
here.
Sub Notes.
If you are well capitalized you can consider your own storage
system….which gets Ammonia down to $300 per ton with a 5% to 10%
markup for the wholesaler.
If you want to form up about $6 million in capital you can start
building your own at 10 ton of NH3 per day.
And furthermore you can use wind power or nuclear power in small 10
megawatt reactors. Or you can use a Cat Generator set.
You can take control…and drive land values up….with Exactrix TAPPS
formulators……and TAPPKTS formulators.
Your Great
Plains Reporter,
Guy J Swanson.
www.exactrix.com
NH3 Efficiency Experts
Exactrix Global Systems
SBA to Make Economic Injury
Disaster Loans Available to U.S
Agricultural Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
Pandemic
U.S. Small Business
Administration Administrator Jovita Carranza announced that agricultural
businesses are now eligible for SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL)
and EIDL Advance programs. SBA’s EIDL portal has reopened as a result of
funding authorized by Congress through the Paycheck Protection Program and
Healthcare Enhancement Act. The legislation, signed into law by the
President one week ago, provided additional funding for farmers and
ranchers and certain other agricultural businesses affected by the
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