A new production facility for Alpine Plant Foods, which produces liquid phosphate fertilizer, has opened its first location in Western Canada. The new facility could help improve the bottom line of farmers in Saskatchewan.
Alpine Plant Foods has been serving farmers in the province for a decade. On Wednesday they opened an $8-million plant in Belle Plaine, Sask.
“Western Canadian farmers are good people to work with,” Terry Good from Alpine Plant Foods said. “They’re a great bunch of people, down to earth, and they do an outstanding job of innovation and efficiency.”
To help farmers efficiently grow their crops, Alpine Plant Foods produces liquid phosphate fertilizer which is needed to start crops. With the product being in a liquid form, the company says it works faster than the dry phosphate that is typically used.
“A dry phosphate tends to have to breakdown and become available through the grounds soil, water,” Good explained. “Our product is already in a simple soluble solution so it’s immediately useable by the plant.”
In Western Canada it is especially useful. Here, the soil is colder and drier. Farmers have noticed their crops have begun growing earlier after using the product.
“The very first year, we used it on peas,” Cornach farmer Owen Cairns said. “We seeded early and we had up to a 25 per cent yield increase.”
The plant can ship out up to 500,000 litres of the product each day. With a plant in Saskatchewan, the cost of fertilizer for customers in the west will decrease. Shipping will begin later this month.
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