FuelPositive’s green ammonia plant installation on R & L Acres near Sperling, Man.

VIDEO: The dollars and sense of on-farm fertilizer

SPERLING, Man. — The retail price of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer was about $1,100 per ton this summer in Western Canada. That number comes from Curtis Hiebert, who farms near Sperling, Man. Hiebert now has a green ammonia production system on his farm, which has a capacity of 100 tons of ammonia per year. Related stories: […] Read more

A visitor to Curtis Hiebert’s farm near Sperling, Man., glances at tanks that are part of the operation’s ammonia production plant. He is the first producer in Canada to have such a system, which allows a farmer to make their own anhydrous ammonia fertilizer using electricity and water. | Robert Arnason photo

VIDEO: Green ammonia moves closer to reality on Man. farm

Company builds an on-farm plant that will allow the farmer to produce 25 per cent of his green ammonia requirements and gain control over of what can be volatile prices for the fertilizer

SPERLING, Man. — Twenty farmers, agronomists and academics recently gathered on a farmyard near Sperling, Man., to look at six or seven shipping containers that house a unique technology. The equipment can convert electricity into anhydrous ammonia, allowing farmers to produce their own nitrogen fertilizer. Ian Clifford, co-founder of FuelPositive, the Canadian company that developed […] Read more



FuelPositive’s green ammonia plant installation on R&L Acres near Sperling, Man.  |  FuelPositive photo

Man. green ammonia project enters home stretch

World’s first on-farm plant will allow operation to produce its own anhydrous ammonia using water, air and electricity

Glacier FarmMedia – After two years of delays, the world’s first on-farm green ammonia plant, installed on a Manitoba operation, is weeks away from producing fertilizer. In mid-June, Ontario clean energy company FuelPositive announced that pieces were in place for the pilot project at R&L Acres near Sperling, Man. “We did the site prep this […] Read more

U.S. president Joe Biden looks at a large, green piece of equipment at the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Fridley, Minnesota.

Cummins makes green turn

Making electrolyzers differs from Cummins’ core business of diesel engines, but it could become a significant source of company revenue. Electrolyzers are devices that use electricity to break the bond between hydrogen and oxygen in water, separating water into hydrogen and oxygen.