Insights and Stories on Potash

Fertilizer merger faces easier approval at home than in U.S.

Sep. 2, 2016 at 7:04 pm CDT

Toronto/Washington | Reuters — Canada’s PotashCorp and Agrium are more likely to win approval for a potential merger in Canada than in the U.S., but U.S. rejection of the deal would scuttle it globally, competition lawyers said. Saskatoon-based PotashCorp and Calgary’s Agrium confirmed Tuesday they were in preliminary merger talks, […]

PotashCorp, Agrium merger would send farmers to regulators

Aug. 31, 2016 at 8:21 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer Rod Nickel

Agrium, PotashCorp in merger talks

Aug. 30, 2016 at 12:29 pm CDT

By Staff

Agrium’s Vanscoy potash operations suspended

Aug. 9, 2016 at 4:46 pm CDT

By Reuters

Mosaic CEO sees opportunities to buy miners’ fertilizer assets

Aug. 2, 2016 at 2:02 pm CDT

By Amrutha Gayathri Rod Nickel

Mosaic idles Saskatchewan potash mine

Jul. 14, 2016 at 4:09 am CDT

Reuters — Fertilizer producer Mosaic Co. has idled production at its Colonsay, Sask. potash mine for the rest of 2016, and temporarily laid off 330 workers, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Potash prices are hovering around the lowest levels seen in a decade, amid excessive output capacity and […]

By Reuters

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

CP offers assurances for 2016-17 grain handle

Jun. 29, 2016 at 5:59 pm CDT

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) says it’s ready and willing to move a bumper Prairie crop in 2016-17. “Operationally, CP is eager and prepared to move grain this coming crop year,” company CEO Hunter Harrison said in a letter to federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau. The letter, dated Tuesday, was also […]

By Allan Dawson

Canpotex shelves plans for Prince Rupert terminal

Jun. 17, 2016 at 6:25 pm CDT

Reuters — Canpotex, the potash export sales arm for PotashCorp, Mosaic Co. and Agrium, said Friday it would not build a planned shipping terminal at Prince Rupert in British Columbia. Canpotex said the decision was based on economic and commercial considerations and that its export capacity in Vancouver, Saint John […]

By Reuters

N.B. to assess unwanted potash deposit

May. 15, 2016 at 1:14 am CDT

A potash deposit from which one of the world’s biggest fertilizer companies recently walked away will be the subject of a provincial review for its future potential. The New Brunswick government announced May 11 it will soon finalize a contract to hire a third-party consultant to assess the remaining potash […]

By Staff

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Insights and Stories on Potash

Fertilizer merger faces easier approval at home than in U.S.

PotashCorp, Agrium merger would send farmers to regulators

Agrium, PotashCorp in merger talks

Agrium’s Vanscoy potash operations suspended

Mosaic CEO sees opportunities to buy miners’ fertilizer assets

Mosaic idles Saskatchewan potash mine

Uralkali shareholder wants to restore potash alliance

CP offers assurances for 2016-17 grain handle

Canpotex shelves plans for Prince Rupert terminal

N.B. to assess unwanted potash deposit

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