(See "Potash: Agribusiness Is Still Fertile").. Fertilizer companies have been flourishing in recent quarters as emerging markets have fueled a strong demand for food.
Farmers and fertilizer companies are watching closely.
The battles among fertilizer companies have been rejoined.
Livestock and ethanol prices also rose, as did shares of fertilizer companies.
While steel insiders cautiously slammed the brakes on merger activity, fertilizer companies went hog wild.
A friendly, balanced merger of two domestic fertilizer companies looks prosaic by comparison.
As long as China's taste for meat increases, fertilizer companies should continue to eat one another up.
He works in New York, where he specializes in mergers and acquisitions, transactions and restructuring of chemical and fertilizer companies.
He then moved on to other things, investing in businesses from radio stations to fertilizer companies to rail cars.
The main opposition comes from chemical and fertilizer companies that are big users of natural gas, and from consumers who fear higher prices.
All else being equal, low pulp prices should benefit paper companies, and falling natural gas prices should help fertilizer companies, because natural gas is a raw component of fertilizer, he said.
