Trump Push for US Fertilizer Won’t Be Enough to Replace Imports
Potash inside a storage facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The US gets roughly 90% of its potash — used in the production of corn and soybeans, the nation’s two biggest crops — from other countries.
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President Donald Trump has included potash among the minerals that need an immediate ramp up in US production. That’s unlikely to significantly break America’s reliance on fertilizer imports.