These are unsure times for all engaged in the fertilizer worth chain: suppliers, importers, vendors, dealers, ranchers and public agents have been revealed to large doubt and risk in fertilizer provide, demand and prices. During 2007-09 charges of such foremost fertilizer products as urea, DAP and muriate of potash quadrupled inside a nine-month time frame; and then, in the case of nitrogen and phosphorous fertilizers, turned down just as rapidly and by nearly the identical magnitude. What occurred and why? Numerous components assisted to the instability - international nourishment security risks, the bio-fuel "hysteria" in North America, ...