By Christopher Alessi FRANKFURT — Bayer AG’s big push into the U.S. agrochemical market with its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. could help it offset a growing problem on its home turf: increasingly stringent European regulation. The oversight has been driven by fierce public resistance in the European Union to pesticides and other… Read More »
On Sep 15, we issued an updated research report on fertilizer company CF IndustriesCF . While CF Industries remains on track with its capacity expansion projects and should gain from healthy demand for nitrogen, it continues to see pricing pressure in its nitrogen business. The company’s profits tumbled roughly 87% in second-quarter 2016, hurt by… Read More »
Image source: PotashCorp. It’s official: PotashCorp (NYSE: POT) will merge with Agrium (NYSE: AGU) , subject to regulatory approvals, by mid-2017 to create the world’s largest traded fertilizer company. Sounds like a good deal, except I’m unsure about the premise behind the merger. PotashCorp’s biggest challenge — weak potash prices — could remain so even… Read More »