Rising potash demand races against growing capacity

By Rod Nickel and Nick Trevethan

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/SINGAPORE | Thu Sep 2, 2010 1:01pm IST

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - BHP Billiton aims to enter the potash business by acquiring the crop nutrient's top producer, Potash Corp, at a time when both global demand and output are expected to surge. click here to read the full article

ANALYSIS-Rising potash demand races against growing capacity

By Rod Nickel and Nick Trevethan

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - BHP Billiton aims to enter the potash business by acquiring the crop nutrient's top producer, Potash Corp, at a time when both global demand and output are expected to surge.

Demand for potash stagnated last year due to recession and farmers balking at high prices, but it's back on the upswing as soaring grain values give farmers more money to spend and China and India seek to satisfy a growing appetite for meat. click here for the full article

It's time to punt on potash as prices rise on China demand

POTASH sales in the US could hit a record this year and evidence is emerging that China's demand for phosphate is about to soar.

Suddenly, things are looking good for the fertiliser feedstocks, a story that Pure Speculation has long been peddling as a long-term investment plan. It has long seemed to us that the combination of an ever growing world population, the reduction in arable land due to urban sprawl and the demand by the fast-growing middle class of Asia for better and more diverse food means that farmers everywhere have to lift their yields dramatically. read the article here