Moscow-Russian fertilizer producer UralChem OJSC recently announced that it has successfully completed agronomic efficiency trials of new calcium-ammonium-nitrate (CAN) and calcium-nitrogen-sulfate (CNS) products that were developed at the company’s Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Plant in Russia in 2005. Trials were conducted in 2008 and 2009 on wheat and barley, two of the most common crops in the Central and Volga Federal Districts of Russia, by UralChem’s consulting agronomists together with scientists from the N.V. Rudnitsky North-East Agricultural Research Institute. The trial application of CNS fertilizers demonstrated an increase in wheat yields by 2.6 centners per hectare when compared with ordinary ammonium nitrate, while the CAN fertilizer product increased barley yields by 5.8 centners per hectare. The company said the trials showed both fertilizers “promote better plant growth and development, and help to improve crop yields.” UralChem has been supplying both CAN and CNS fertilizers to Europe – including Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and Germany – since 2005.
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