Tag: fertilizer

• Thursday, April 9th 2026 - 01:13 UTC

  Latin America faces fertilizer vulnerability; IICA and TFI agree joint plan amid Hormuz crisis

  

  The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the U.S.-based Fertilizer Institute (TFI) announced a partnership to secure fertilizer supply across the Americas, amid logistical disruptions and price volatility worsened by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the war between the United States, Israel and Iran.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Plenty of fertilizer for Brazilian farmers ahead of 2022/23 soybean-sowing season

  

  Brazilian farmers are preparing for another soybean planting season, the 2022/2023 harvest with the critical component of fertilizers to ensure high productivity and yields, on the tracks.

• Thursday, February 24th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil ensuring greater urea supplies from Iran in a fertilizer short world

  

  While Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was in Moscow visiting his close friend and admired populist 'strong man' Vladimir Putin, in the midst of the escalating situation in Ukraine, and brushing off critics saying Brazil is “nobody's a puppet”, his agriculture minister was in a more strategic mission, --in another outcast country--, but crucial for the booming farming sector.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  Sanctions impact on Belarus potash fertilizer and global food production

  

  Some of the first consequences of the Ukraine conflict? Belarus, a close ally of Russia's Vladimir Putin, has announced that the Belarus Potash Corporation, BPC, will no longer abide by some contracts following sanctions imposed by the United States and other countries.