Max Armstrong shares insight on the complex fertilizer market. Max explains fertilizer moves through the system. He offers insight from Greg Strouse, manager of the MFA Incorporated plant foods facility in Palmyra, Mo. The industry has to be ready to meet farmer needs in a market where farmers can plant a lot of acres in a very short time.

Max Armstrong's Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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