Ron..NE ILL..10/48 - 10/1/2023 07:41

I'm sure the 28% users here realize their product starts as 32% UAN that someone adds a specified amount of water to make a more diluted solution. The only advantage is that it overwinters better and 28% won't salt out like 32%.

But, 28% only has 560# of N per ton of material, 32% has 640# of N per ton. NH3 has 1640# of N per ton. I am guessing we will be using as many tons of actual N as always, so transportation will have figure out how to transport THREE times the volume of product as they are today. If you're considering getting in the seasonal liquid tanker business, this might be a good time!

I agree that NH3, just like guns or planes or autos is a completely safe product when handled correctly. But any of those items can kill you, though I'm sure the auto is the main culprit. Squishing a Tesla with an 80,000# tanker isn't completely out of the question. I also state that we've used NH3 on our farm and it's heavily utilized in NE IL & I don't personally know of anyone killed by it. I only know of a couple of burn victims from NH3. I also had a classmate in HS that became a victim (while still in HS) of the infamous IH "pressurized gas tank" situation on his picker tractor when he gassed it. He was heavily scarred for life. There's always problems.