[Yosemitest]

Can I say something as a farmer and hay grower?

I don't believe there is a substitute for "ammonia nitrate" when it comes to growing plants.
Ammonia nitrate is normally used on the second or third spreading of fertilizer on the crop.
If you us triple 13 or other fertilizers, you run the risk of "burning the soil" and killing your plants with too much of some of the elements in fertilizer.

I've used ammonia nitrate with dynamite to blow stumps in fields when I was a teenager, and it's not much help.
Dynamite is better by itself for small explosions, but today a back-hoe is easier.

Ammonia nitrate is a useful tool for many farmers and cattle growers.
To try to control it tighter, will only drive up the cost of your food.

[Cindy]

Hi Yosemitest.

I don’t know if you had a chance to read the original article in post no. 1. If not, read it — it’s interesting.

Here’s a small quote from the article:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/27/pakistani-fertilizer-firm-expand-us-despite-balkin/

SNIPPET: “He called Fatima “less than cooperative” in even instituting minimal controls on calcium ammonium nitrate, or CAN, a fertilizing compound that has been used in 70 percent of the homemade explosives deployed against U.S. troops.

Fatima is the only Pakistani producer of CAN, which is illegal to import into in Afghanistan.”