Uniform NH4 in the deck, in liquid streaming flows, It works.

Crop Availability of Primary Phosphate goes up 300%.
Exactrix TAPPS with Mustang banding brings confidence.
The NH3 application problem is solved.
Scientists confirm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pdi5SZ-QGA&hd=1 

• “There is most likely a supply glut of NH3 coming, when is the question.”
• “ Summer of 2021 could bring fill-up sales of $150 per ton.”
• “USA Export of NH3 is possible beyond 2021.
• “Solution 32 usage will drop due to environmental and economic problems in 2020.”
• “The Urea failure in corn production is known.”
• “Primary Nitrogen as NH3 and Primary Phosphate as APP and Thio-sul® will dominate VRT-Site Specific application”.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ2iH_Pe2rE&hd=1   What is liquid streaming flow. TVA promoted,  Exactrix NH3 discovery.

“We have it and around the world, they do not”.  “Worth millions of dollars over a farming career.” It Works Very Well”

Reactive Liquid Streaming Flows of Nutrients Assure Lineal Band Uniformity. The ultimate way to improve crop availability.

For the full length of the field pass the band width and concentration of the band is 1% CV.

The band concentration or band width varies by the VRT-Site Specific application rate.

High Pressure (up to 300 psi) injection is required to assure highest economic returns of TAPPS and TAPPKTS.

“ No-tillage application of TAPPS nutrients remains the only long term solution to soil productivity.”  

• The adaption to Exactrix TAPPS stabilizes low cost primary nitrogen with applications at .6 to .7 of the university recommendation.
• Phosphate efficiency is improved 200% to 300% and greater. Soil test builds with Exactrix application of TAPPS and  RBL.
• Rotational Band Loading RBL is an exclusive function of Exactrix nutrient application in No-till to 8 inch depths.
• Get a lot more with your management skills moving 12% more net to the bottom line.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j7uATZoqVQ&hd=1        Making TAPPS.

December 2017 pricing. In 2018 fill-up in July and August will be a predictable low price point for the year.

Ben McClure, Kramer Seed, Certified Wheat Seed Producers, at Hugoton, KS reports, Changes in Nutrient costs.
Supporting prices for micro-nutrients, Guy Swanson.

NH3 pricing dropped to $300 per ton from another vendor.
Ben McClure took it immediately, He had an empty 18,000 gallon storage tank to take the entire transport load.
The Load had been sent out with bad delivery instructions.  

NH3 transport direct to farm storage @ $385 .00 per ton. 23.4 cents per lb. of N.
Stranded Loads with on farm storage @ $300.00 per ton or 18.3 cents per lb. of N.

• 10-34-0 @ $340 per ton.
• Thio-Sulfate @ $250 per ton
• KTS @ $670 per ton.
• UPA Hugoton

Micro Nutrient Quotes for December 2017.

Iron Chlorosis Candidates.
Exactrix TAPPKTS-ZN with Tri-Flow injection of 5/6 chelation’s of Iron. 
Ferrilene at 3 to 4 gallons in VRT, Site Specific.
Scott City, KS Helena.
Hot Batch, Helena, $12 to $15 per gallon dependent on batch size.  

• Ammoniated Zinc. $1.10 to 1.25 per lb.
• Chelated Zinc, $4.50 to $5.50 per lb.
• Manganese Sulfate,____________.
• Merchant Grade Phosphoric Acid. 0-52-0_______.

Lowest delivered NH3 prices reported on the Great Plains for 2017.

July Delivery $220 per ton. 13.4 cents per lb. of N.
NOLA price $125 to $150 per ton, July. 

Inside the Kramer Seed/McClure document you will discover that an additional 12% to 15% margin has been going on for about 9 years.

 
You can review the attached Power Point presentation written by Ag Economist and Manager, Ben McClure.

Continuous Winter Wheat harvest at Lyons, KS, Averaged 100.2 bushels per acre in 2017. Exactrix TAPPS, Mustang tool bar applied by Mark Ricker, Wheat on Wheat.  

A winner in winter wheat production and every acre is No-tillage production by Mark Ricker, Pioneer dealer at Lyons, KS. Supported by Crop Quest, Mr. Jon French.  

Smaller NH3 plants are part of a new era in pricing and supplying NH3 to the local market.

Manning in Northern Alberta to Culiacan, Sinola, Mexico.  Get it done with big trucks at 14 pH NH3, high quality steel and diesel power.

In the west, you will find better quality and  wider highways built with basalt and glacial granitic deposits of hard rock, or a better rock utilized in construction over long distances?

Why Rocky Mountain Doubles in the West and Canada? 
Close to 17,000 gallons of propane or NH3 on 9 axles.
Rocky Mountain Doubles at the inspection station in Lehi, Utah, October of 2017.
The wide open west allows Propane or NH3 to be delivered from Colorado border westward at the 102^nd   meridian. 

Are older tanks better?
Pup Trailer Tank 5,195 gallons  built in in 1965 at South San Francisco by American Bridge Division, United States Steel  .435 Shell. Head ¼ inch min.
Semi-Trailer, Tank, 11,600 gallons. Built in 1977 at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Mississippi Tank Company, .383 Shell. Head ¼ inch min.

You can only be guilty of thinking too small.  Western landscapes and weather require more efficient deliver in a low population area.  

Low population areas must have low cost transportation across the west. A whole different approach to trucking as compared to the condensed or highly populated Midwest, Texas and California. 

South Dakota has even more axles allowed due to wide open spaces and low population.  

Up to 110 feet total overall length, at 81 feet of total trailer length, 13 total axles, and the load can be 155,500 lbs. A Special Permit required for Interstate 90 or 29. Get it done in South Dakota with 858,643 people that cannot be wrong.

Farmers get a 10% overload grace. That means 170,000 lbs. is legal at no more than 50 mph and within 50 miles of the headquarters.

Nutrients in TAPPS and TAPPKS become more available at high (7.5 to 9.0 pH) and low pH (6.5 to 5.0 pH).

• The basic reason for TAPPS and TAPPKTS with Ammoniated Zinc and Manganese.
• High pH soils require Less to get More keeping calcium at bay improving P and K availability.   
• Low pH soils must have TAPPS and TAPPKTS to protect manganese and aluminum toxicity .
• High production alfalfa requires TAPPKTS pre-plant on 10 inch bands. NH3 improves the availability of P and K.
   

Going Expo in Alberta. An exceptional machine for exceptional conditions in Northern Alberta. Running strong in snowy conditions.   

• Three Exactrix Systems on board. 2KC, Series 3, Mass Flow, 2KM Series 3, Mass Flow, 2KR Blender.
• An exponential tool for CPS at Sexsmith, Alberta, Allows banding into grassland as well as pre-plant production for high value Spring Canola.
• High durability track cart has 4,000 gallons NH3, Twin poly tank for 10-34-0 and Thio-sul®, 12-0-0-26S.
• Thio-sul® is key to high yields and good proteins in Canola. Thio-sul® is the base material (10 gallons), The third product injection is low rates of 10-34-0(3 gallons)
   

Heart of Texas Tool Bar. A power play in Winter Canola. Lohn, Texas. 

Positive Down-pressure, Mustang Tool Bar. Construction is 7 x 7 with band spacing of 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 22, 30, and 40.
The tools are adjustable for Binary Banding. 
The in-frame hydraulic cylinders are oversized for 45 feet of application width at 10 inch Mustang Opener spacing. 
The wing cylinders have a hydraulic weight transfer circuit to apply weight from the center section.  
Cylinders hold the tool bar in the smile position in the corners.  Frame depth wheel tires maintain stability at high speed.

Advanced Tool Bar designs.  Exceptional timing and delivery of Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS in all seasons.

• Rotational Band Loading and Binary Banding.
• P-51C Mustangs band deep and tool bar runs fast at 10 to 12 mph.
• Deep Banding to 7 to 8 inch depth.

From Cotton to Canola, Corn to Soybeans. Binary Banding provides seminal root access.

The next chapter in high production at lowest cost. Corn, Beans, Canola, Milo and Cotton.

Iowa State says, “It does no good to fertilize soybeans in Iowa.” Acidic soils for sure. 
Exactrix says, “It works every time in high pH soils. “ 

• Soybeans get a yield punch from Exactrix TAPPKTS Band Geometry and specialized chemistry for Platte Valley Yellows.
• The same tool can be utilized for wheat, corn, soybeans, cotton, alfalfa, and winter canola.
• Mustang Tri-flow deep banding openers in combination with a indexed tool bar. Pre-plant or in crop.
   

Directly under the growing plant. Nutrients must be placed in deep bands to 8 inch depth to assure maximum early access to TAPPKTS,  Ferrilene, Mn SO4, Rhizobia and Mycorrhizae.  
Soybean roots go deep to 6 feet but not very wide. About 10 to 20 inch wide.
The start is critical to go with deep 6 foot root program. Ferrilene, Manganese, TAPPKTS, Rhizobia, and Mycorrhizae are positioned for immediate plant uptake.

Directly under the plant, Binary Banding of TAPPKTS with micros, Rhizobia, Mycorrhizae solves the nutrient access problem. 

• Exactrix Binary Banding can produce soybeans in high pH soils. Producers can go where they could not go before.
• Platte Valley Yellows can be greatly reduced with Ferrilene, Manganese Sulfate, Rhizobia and Mycorrhizae.
• Exactrix recommends a 30 inch or 20 inch row design to concentrate nutrients and micro-biology.
• Tri-flow injection with Mustang openers.
• SRS can be used for Rhizobia, and Mycorrhizae.

Deep but not wide. Soybeans must have precision geometry to access nutrients and biologicals.
Proprietary Exactrix products make this happen.

Three farmer generated factors will solve the high nutrient cost problem.  

1. Better NH3 30,000 gallon storage Tanks.

2. Advanced NH3 application tooling will lower the price of all nutrients. Every large and third ammonia plant can be closed.

3. Producers can build their own ammonia plants locally. The pricing all starts with ammonia.

Note: The Achilles Heel.

The Big 4 must have rail delivery to compete with the small NH3 plants. The chances of the railroads retooling their railroad is nil to slim. Rail delivery is a form of storage. Those who control the storage control the price. The dysfunctional NH3 pipelines are at risk with smaller plants on site making on time delivery. 

Barges on the Mississippi, Columbia and Snake River are the safest and most economical way to move ammonia. Restraining delivery is a key marketing trick of the Big 4. FOMO, Fear of Missing Out works a marketing technique.Creating false demand by holding back the supply since the storage of the railroad is gone. That means trucks. Investments in barges could overcome a lot of economic problems. Meanwhile small NH3 plants in stranded areas make a lot of sense.

Smaller and new plants located more to the demand area provide a better marketing design as the railroads pull out.  Geneva, Nebraska. 2017 

NH3 at $60 per ton?       It is time to review a more competitive stance at $2.50 to $3.00 corn.  

Producers can take back control of NH3 as they originally had control in the 60’s to the late 90’s at 6 cent N.  
As one producer said, “Tell the hedge fund manager to leave us alone. Let us compete for the markets. It is about my margin that counts. It is not about their oversized Canadian margin”.  Make it smaller, smaller is 75 ton per day, local NH3 plants that match transportation and delivery to your storage tanks makes more sense.  

Storage on your farm with a 1 year advance supply builds National structural strength in war time.  
Farmers must produce at the most efficient level in war time. This is a National Security issue.  
The cold war brought the issue to the forefront as grains were stored on farm sites for years in the 70’s and 80’s.
The food supply is at risk with large ammonia manufacturing plants which are big targets for a marching army.  
The ammonia plants are a strategic target. Dilution of the target size and locations is very important. Bigger is not better.

Let the small NH3 plants compete and meet the nitrogen needs of the producer.  

• NH3 Storage with on Farm July fill-ups or around the year, when the price is right.

If NH3 storage tanks were installed on 50% of the farm acres the NH3 price would adjust as close as possible to the cost of production of NH3. In the meantime Exactrix owners get exclusive price breaks. NH3 manufacturers and wholesalers of NH3 know where the storage tanks are located on the landscape.  

• Redesigned NH3 Nurse tanks. The present NH3 Nurse tank design from the Coops is the throttle point.
• Applications at 10 mph at 60% of the university recommendation is possible with Exactrix designs and TAPPS, TAPPKTS with micros.
• It is possible to fertilize soybeans with NH3, APP, Thio-sul®, KTS®, AZn, Ferrilene, Manganese and addition of Rhizobia, Mycorrhizae.

TAPPS Formulator 2KM Weigh Master.                                Liquid NH3 Injection, 2KC Weigh Master, Series 3. 

Tri-Ammonium Poly Phosphate Sulfate or Crystalline TAPPS.
The Dysfunctional Fertilizer Manufacturing Industry is a mess without the TVA leadership.

Your Great Plains Reporter.

Guy J Swanson

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Top yields, best margin and the new leader in VRT-Site Specific, Small Grains Expert. Eric Odberg at Genesee, Idaho breaking winter wheat yield records. Exactrix TAPPS at Catholic Canyon using 4 management zones. Exactrix Site-Specific, Variable Rate EO.htm	"Paul Gangwish, Drone Video" Track Machines improve production 200%. Application time cut in half at 1 acre per minute. Up to $150 more net income per acre.

The 2017 Agronomy Review.
http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_12_29_2016.html