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Logistics is the challenge in supplying anhydrous ammonia

A fertilizer transportation specialist says anhydrous ammonia is hard to get because of logistical issues.

“The issue has not been of product availability to this point,” said Chris DeMoss, director of plant foods and transportation at agriculture supplier MFA in Columbia, Missouri, “but more of transportation; to get it on a truck and get it to a certain area.”

Anhydrous production is keeping up, according to DeMoss, but demand has suddenly spiked from Southern Missouri to Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.

“When you get all those points running, it really puts a strain on that available product,” DeMoss told Brownfield Ag News Wednesday.

The lack of fall application has added fire to current demand “but you’ve got so many places going at one time,” said DeMoss. “That’s the big culprit here.”