Fertilizer industry contracting

This paper results from work completed in 1979 (and updated in 1980) to evaluate the emerging supply/demand, cost/price outlook for the fertilizer commodities phosphate rock, upgraded phosphates, sulfur, and sulfuric acid. Our purpose here is to publish, in part, our analysis of recent trends and events which impact on sulfur supply and demand, and to use these together with available production cost data to project price behavior for sulfur over the near term. Such projections are helpful to managers of large industrial firms as one of several tools available to them in making investment, contract, marketing, or other major decisions. This paper is necessarily limited in scope, and will attempt to summarize the world outlook with emphasis on the North American scene. 

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