Ferts
More people in the world, earning more money and eating more food, have driven up fertilizer prices. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., the world’s biggest producer of the mineral, has benefitted from those trends, and so have the company’s shareholders:
If you go back to 1970 through 2010, global crop consumption has increased by 2.5 times, while global population has ... doubled, and per capita income has increased by 30 per cent,” David Delaney, the Saskatoon-based company’s chief operating officer, told an investor conference last week. “Demand ... is putting tremendous pressure on the supplies around the world.”
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