molybdenum and farming

Interesting article:

Molybdenum is the commodity you should invest in.

By Carlo Biancardi
Did you invest in number 42? What I mean by number 42 is the atomic number 42, the element is Molybdenum and this is also the commodity you should invest in.

I asked "Do you use Molybdenum" to a well known local area farmer here in London, Ontario which farms hundreds of acres of corn, soy beans and peas and his response was "it rings a bell, what is it?"

Molybdenum is not well known yet to farmers but when they try it on their fields they will not stop using it.

Here is a little lesson. When you grow a plant you take nutrients out of the soil. To grow more plants in that soil you have to put nutrients back in. Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potash are 3 main nutrients that all farmers add back to theis soil in some way this ensures that the plant will grow huge.

This does not mean that the plant is also healthy. To be healthy you would also add micro nutrients like the commodity Molybdenum. The plants would be healthier eg.. they would contain less toxic nitrosamines and many other reasons also. We would be healthier because we would consume more Molybdenum in our diet.

So most of you would think I am saying to invest in Molybdenum because it is good for our health and a plants health, well you are wrong.

Going back to what I said about Macro nutrients that are used yearly in huge amounts by farmers. Farmers add Nitrogen to soil by injecting Ammonia gas to soil, spreading urea pellets, etc...The price of Nitrogen is determined by natural gas prices.

Farmers can also easily grow a leguminous crop which is edible and also captures Nitrogen out of the air and stores it in the roots for the next years crop (Nitrogen fixation). Farmers can also grow winter leguminous cover crops (clover) which could use Molybdenum supplementation.

For this to happen efficiently leguminous (soy beans,peas, peanuts, etc.) plants should have 10 times more Molybdenum (10 ppm)in the soil than average plants (1 ppm).

Molybdenum can be added at $15 an acre which is one pound per acre or even smaller amounts if desired, any amount is better than none at all. According to New Mexico State University a farm could effectively capture roughly 250 pounds of Nitrogen PER ACRE depending on the Leguminous species used. To supply 250 pounds of Nitrogen it would cost a farmer $50 per acre for undesirable urea pellets (2011).

Therefore adding Molybdenum to soil is cheaper for farmers and healthier for us.

The important thing is that when farmers catch on they will realize there is not enough for every farm and the commodity will sky rocket in price because the world's supply is only 500 million pounds per year of Molybdenum.

There are 2.2 billion acres of farmland in the U.s.A. which would require 2.2 billion pounds of Molybdenum, there is not enough Molybdenum for everyone.

Remember that all these facts are Internet based and that fundamentally by adding Molybdenum to any soil would provide a net benefit for all plants and animals because this commodity is not spread evenly on the earth. A profitable mine would contain at least 500 ppm (.05%), fertile and rare (in terms of Molybdenum) farmland would contain only 1 ppm.

This is only one in depth reason to invest in this special commodity.