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The World’s Food Security is In The Hands of China and Russia

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What Are the Main Components of Commercial Fertilizer?

There are three main nutrients that people put down on the ground. Nitrogen is generally thought of as the most important because there are plants like corn that you have to apply it every year. Potash and phosphate are both mined. You actually have to get it out of the ground similar to the way you would even mine coal.

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