Insights and Stories on Belarus

Worsening global food security needs Ukraine, Russia production, UN chief says

May. 4, 2022 at 8:07 pm CDT

Abuja | Reuters — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday the problem of global food security could not be solved without restoring Ukrainian agricultural production and Russian food and fertilizer output to the world market. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has added to volatility in financial markets, sending commodity […]

Nutrien may further raise potash output as sanctions curb other supplies

May. 3, 2022 at 5:52 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

CF Industries boosts U.S. fertilizer shipments as Russian exports cut

Mar. 16, 2022 at 3:44 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Nutrien takes cautious potash approach as rival copes with sanctions

Feb. 17, 2022 at 6:40 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Nutrien eyes potash production boost amid turmoil in Russia, Belarus

Feb. 1, 2022 at 2:23 am CST

By Polina Devitt Rod Nickel

Nutrien confident in potash demand even with BHP project

Aug. 17, 2021 at 6:56 pm CDT

Calgary | Reuters — Canada’s largest potash producer Nutrien said Tuesday it is confident in growing global demand for the crop fertilizer, shrugging off BHP Group’s decision to press on with its massive Jansen project in Saskatchewan that will add millions of tonnes a year of potash supply. BHP announced […]

By Nia Williams

Potash partnership with BHP ‘not our focus,’ Nutrien executive says

Jun. 22, 2021 at 8:03 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian potash producer Nutrien is not focused on any potential collaboration with miner BHP Group, a senior Nutrien executive said Tuesday in the company’s first public comments about reports of possible co-operation. BHP has for years been constructing a potash mine at Jansen, Sask., near Nutrien’s […]

By Rod Nickel

Nutrien to further bump up potash output

Jun. 21, 2021 at 7:52 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian fertilizer producer Nutrien said Monday it would boost its 2021 potash output by 500,000 tonnes, after the European Union and others imposed new trade sanctions on Belarus. Nutrien’s increase takes its potash sales outlook this year to a record-high range of 13.3 million to 13.8 […]

By Rod Nickel

Russia will suspend grain exports for six weeks if quota runs out mid-May

Apr. 17, 2020 at 6:52 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Russia, the world’s biggest wheat exporter, will suspend grain exports until July 1 once its export quota is exhausted, which is currently expected to happen in mid-May, its deputy agriculture minister Oksana Lut said on Friday. Russia last fully banned wheat exports in 2010 when drought […]

By Polina Devitt

Uralkali shareholder wants to restore potash alliance

Jul. 11, 2016 at 12:41 pm CDT

Minsk | Reuters — The Belarussian businessman who last week acquired a 20 per cent stake in Russian potash producer Uralkali said on Monday it would be in everyone’s interest to restore an alliance between Uralkali and Belarus, the world’s two biggest potash miners. Uralkali and the Belarussian Potash Co. […]

By Andrei Makhovsky

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