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I've got a B-Double load of urea turning up at lunch time. 40 tonnes. Urea is 46% N. The load I bought, will fill our storage. I paid $650 a tonne for it a few months ago. It is now $800 a tonne, and still rising. Urea was just $300 a tonne when oil was cheap a few years ago. I will need to...

This is what would happen on my farm next week if oil ran out tomorrow. Firstly, I would plant half my farm to lucerne based summer pasture. Southern and western parts of Australia would plant clover based winter pastures. 3 years of legume pasture would provide enough N for 3 years of...

Yeah, lets hope it works out eh. See ya's.

Apparently Nitrogen can be produced by methods other than using natural gas and coal. But it takes a hell of a lot of energy. It must take a lot of energy, or otherwise it would be used now. Sounds a bit like hydrogen as a fuel source. Hydrogen is apparently the perfect fuel source to replace...

I reckon the major breakthrough, that would solve peak oil, global warming, and the food crisis would be a new form of unlimited clean base-load energy. I reckon that breakthrough would be nuclear fusion [not fission]. Nuclear Fusion would be unlimited energy. The energy of the sun. We need...

Here is a good article I found,..... http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2005/Update48.htm Interesting that Zero-till and conservation farming gets a mention. Spraying instead of ploughing the soil has saved huge amounts of fuel, and it's getting more popular all the time. Modern farming...

G'day House Keeper. I've gone on about the oil/food thing for ages. This was a post I made to Les a long time ago,..... http://www.somersoft.com/forums/showpost.php?p=287698&postcount=112 Sort of covers most of it. [and what's happened to Les?] The world was at a population peak...

Yeah, or they might just jack up the price of roundup by 200% and put on massive fertilizer tarrifs eh. Like they just have. See ya's.

Howdy Grossreal. There was an article in the 'perspective' section of the weekend AFR titled, 'The Curse of Plenty'. Probably refers to your points. Did you read it? Basically tells how some countries have made use of their good luck, and others squadered it. See ya's.

Gee, your have it in for Woodside, TheAnalyst. Oil is still too cheap considering what you can do with it. Way too cheap. It is way too cheap because we are still wasting the stuff. Oil needs to be expensive so we will stop wasting oil, and so that companies like Woodside can continue to...

HiredGoon, I'm a believer in the commodities super cycle. I'm basically fully invested into agricultural land and resource shares. I don't really know if the commodities super cycle will continue, just hope it does. I do think there has been some fundamental shifts in things, especially...