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Nutrien to idle three Saskatchewan potash mines

By GFM Staff September 11, 2019

Canadian fertilizer giant Nutrien plans to shut down three of its Saskatchewan potash mines for up to two months in the fourth quarter of the year. The Saskatoon company said Wednesday it “expects to proactively take up to eight-week inventory shutdowns” at its mines at Allan, Lanigan and Vanscoy, Sask. during that period. If all […] Read more

Corn, Reuters

Nutrien sees big corn comeback in 2020, following U.S. floods

By Rod Nickel July 30, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters – Fertilizer producer and farm supply dealer Nutrien Ltd expects U.S. farmers to plant as many as 95 million acres (38.5 million hectares) of corn next year, the most in seven years, after a frustrating year of floods, its chief executive said. The wet conditions left millions of acres unplanted across the […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Nutrien merger’s effects ongoing a year later

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm January 10, 2019

CNS Canada — After clearing their regulatory hurdles, Canada’s Agrium and PotashCorp merged at the start of 2018 to become the world’s largest fertilizer company, Nutrien. The partner companies had made various promises at the time and many in Western Canada were cautious, hoping for the best but not fully knowing what to expect. A […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Chinese firm buys stake in miner SQM from Nutrien

By Antonio De la Jara December 3, 2018

Santiago | Reuters — China’s Tianqi Lithium Corp. has bought a 23.77 per cent share in Chilean miner SQM from Canadian fertilizer giant Nutrien, the Chilean stock exchange said on Monday, for a total sale price of US$4.066 billion. The sale to Tianqi comes as Chinese companies increasingly scour the globe for the raw materials […] Read more

Reuters

Fertilizer maker Nutrien’s profit beats on strong potash demand

By Shanti S Nair, Soundarya J November 6, 2018

Reuters – Canadian fertilizer and farm supplies dealer Nutrien Ltd reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit and raised its full-year adjusted profit forecast, driven by strong demand for its potash fertilizers. The world’s largest fertilizer company by capacity raised its full-year adjusted profit forecast to the range of $2.60-$2.80 per share, from its prior estimate of […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Nutrien steers potash recovery as BHP waits in wings

By barbara-lewis, Rod Nickel August 20, 2018

Winnipeg/London | Reuters — Canada’s Nutrien, the world’s biggest potash miner by capacity, has helped engineer a surprising price rebound for the fertilizer by idling capacity. Now the trick will be keeping prices from appreciating too much to ensure a major would-be competitor, BHP Billiton, stays on the sidelines. BHP has been weighing an entry […] Read more

Crops

CPS outlets to take merged parent’s name

By Staff April 5, 2018

A well-known and unusually literal brand in Canadian and U.S. agribusiness is set to disappear this summer under the name of its new parent firm. Crop input retail stores and facilities run by Crop Production Services (CPS) — the brand today used across North America by the retail arm of the company formerly known as […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Nutrien sees demand growth cooling, margins shrinking

By Reuters February 5, 2018

Reuters — Nutrien, the Canadian fertilizer and farm supply dealer created from the merger of Agrium and PotashCorp this year, said it expected demand growth for potash in China and India to cool down in 2018. Nutrien, the world’s biggest fertilizer company by capacity, also said higher input costs would shrink nitrogen and phosphate margins. […] Read more

Crops

Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm January 5, 2018

CNS Canada – Farmers shouldn’t be too concerned yet that the recent Agrium, Potash Corp of Saskatchewan merger will cause an increase in the price of fertilizer, at least according to the president of one provincial producer group. “(The merger is) a hard one to find a whole bunch of negatives or positives about it. […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Fertilizer producer Nutrien to keep Saskatchewan base, says Wall

By Rod Nickel January 4, 2018

Winnipeg | Reuters – Nutrien Ltd, the fertilizer company formed this week by a merger of Potash Corp of Saskatchewan and Agrium, has committed to establishing its head office in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and increasing corporate office jobs there, Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall said on Thursday. Wall said that in recent meetings, Nutrien’s […] Read more

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Nutrien to idle three Saskatchewan potash mines

Nutrien sees big corn comeback in 2020, following U.S. floods

Nutrien merger’s effects ongoing a year later

Chinese firm buys stake in miner SQM from Nutrien

Fertilizer maker Nutrien’s profit beats on strong potash demand

Nutrien steers potash recovery as BHP waits in wings

CPS outlets to take merged parent’s name

Nutrien sees demand growth cooling, margins shrinking

Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

Fertilizer producer Nutrien to keep Saskatchewan base, says Wall

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