Farmland Industries, Kansas City, Mo., will sell its Joplin, Mo., fertilizer production plant to Canada's Potash Corp. (Marketing News).
Farmland Industries, Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo., will sell its Joplin, Mo., fertilizer production plant to Canada's Potash potash: see potassium carbonate.
potash
Name used for various inorganic compounds of potassium, chiefly the carbonate (K2CO3), a white crystalline material formerly obtained from wood ashes. Corp. Farmland operated the Joplin plant for about 50 years. Formerly known as Farmers Chemical Co., it employs 47 people and has the capacity to produce 240,000 tons of phosphate and ammonium ammonium /am·mo·ni·um/ (ah-mo´ne-um) the hypothetical radical, NH4, forming salts analogous to those of the alkaline metals.
ammonium carbonate fertilizers each year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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| | Comment: | Farmland Industries, Kansas City, Mo., will sell its Joplin, Mo., fertilizer production plant to Canada's Potash Corp. (Marketing News).(Brief Article) |
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| Publication: | Agri Marketing |
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| Article Type: | Brief Article |
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| Geographic Code: | 1U4MO |
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| Date: | Apr 1, 2002 |
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| Words: | 59 |
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