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To: pocotrader who wrote (58003)	3/31/2008 1:25:08 AM
From: pocotrader	Respond to of 78417

I found one company called Yara

To: pocotrader who wrote (58003)	3/31/2008 3:02:21 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78417

Agrium, Potash Corp. Many others. Nitrates are made from the Haber-Bosch process. Literally from thin air. Same as explosives. Used to be mined in Chile and Argentina. Big trade until first world war. Natural gas is main source of nitrogen now, but sources could be seawater or air. Most fertilizers sold are NPK - Nitrate, Phoshate, Potassium compounds. They are sold by numbers such as 25-25-25 which means equal parts 25% N, P and K. Another big source of nitrates is animal chid. Manure, mon. During revolutionary war, merikans used to make gunpowder from "night soil" out the back 40. That is called giving the enemy chid. The fertilizer industry is closely allied with the mining industry. Cominco and Sherritt Gordon went into fertilizer in a big way. Texas gulf tried as they had the sulfuric acid in Ontario and the phosphate rock in the states, but Ontario Northland Railway stopped that. The gas companies in Texas producing all kinds of ammonia and sulfuric acid went into fertlizer too, selling their product to companies with phosphate deposits, such as apatite and fish scale rock. there used to be all kinds of apatite mining in southern ontario and we produced our own ferlizer by the megaton. All gone now. A lot of fert comes from the fishy phosphate rock of Carolina and Florida. EC<:-}

To: pocotrader who wrote (58003)	3/31/2008 10:43:40 AM
From: AurumRabosa	Respond to of 78417

..."Another area that has given spectacular returns is fertilizer and fertilizer stocks. In the past four years, fertilizer prices have more than doubled. Fueled by increased global demand driven by growing needs for food, feed and biofuel, the companies that produce the various types of fertilizer have exploded. Mosaic has tripled in the past year. Potash is up more than 200%. Agrium , a real laggard, is only up 92% over that time frame. I talked to a friend who has a farm, and he told me that the salespeople now tell him how much is he is ordering at a particular time. Demand is so strong he either takes what he is offered or he gets none. Global population is continuing to expand. The forecasts I have read say that the demand for fertilizer products will stay strong for the foreseeable future."...http://biz.yahoo.com/ts/080328/10409806.html?.v=1 (I think nitrogen fertilizer is made from natural gas in countries with an excess like Tunisia.)