Fertilizer pricing tempers strong season

摘要

Despite ideal planting weather that led to healthy fertilizer use, low prices kept fertilizer makers from harvesting a bumper crop of earnings this growing season. However, many companies have bolstered sales as a result of last year's rash of mergers. The drive toward industry consolidation continues with IMC-Global's July premium-price bid to acquire Freeport-McMo-Ran, its partner in IMC-Agrico.