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Re: davedickins post# 30

Wednesday, 02/17/2010 5:18:56 AM

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:18:56 AM

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Hi Dave

Looks like fertilizer demand is growing as predicted.

http://www.moneyweek.com/investment-advice/how-to-profit-from-the-booming-fertiliser-market-00705.aspx

Farming is not a business you normally associate with the pinstripe-suited cut and thrust of international mergers and acquisitions.

Yet one of the busiest areas for takeover deals this year so far has been the fertiliser sector. Already around $10bn worth of deals have "been thrashed out in the fertiliser market," reports the FT's Lex column. The latest is Norwegian group Yara International's $4.1bn purchase of US rival Terra Industries.
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So why is this happening now? And more importantly, how can you profit from it?
The fertiliser market is booming

Yara International is the world's largest listed fertiliser maker. And it's about to get bigger after taking over US rival Terra Industries. One reason that Yara wants Terra is to secure its access to US natural gas supplies. Natural gas is one of the key ingredients of nitrogen fertiliser. With everyone getting excited about America's reserves of shale gas, having access to the area's reserves makes sense.

But it's just one of many deals done in

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