# Farmer Fertilizer Focus - Potash

> Mosaic's Esterhazy K1 and K2 potash mines in Saskatchewan were abandoned nine months early after brine inflow overwhelmed pumping capacity. About 1 million tons of production was lost. Potash prices jumped immediately because warehouses had already been emptied by a spring run.

- Date: 2021-07-02 · published 2021-07-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region Canada · magnitude high
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/11011-farmer-fertilizer-focus-potash
- Commodities: [Phosphate Rock](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PHOSROCK.md), [Potash (KCl)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/POTASH.md), [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md), [TSP](https://feedsoft.ai/c/TSP.md), [DAP](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DAP.md)

## Why it matters

Losing roughly 1 million tons of potash supply in an already tight market supports higher potash prices into fall application. Prices are unlikely to ease until additional producers ramp up output.

## Read by commodity

- DAP: bullish ▲
- TSP: bullish ▲
- UREA: bullish ▲
- POTASH: bullish ▲
- PHOSROCK: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UREA | 2021-04-13 | [DTN Fertilizer Outlook](https://feedsoft.ai/events/47544-dtn-fertilizer-outlook.md) | +0.7% | -0.3% |
| UREA | 2021-03-05 | [Natural gas shortage shuts down fertilizer plants - High Plains Journal](https://feedsoft.ai/events/48437-natural-gas-shortage-shuts-down-fertilizer-plants-high-plains-journal.md) | +5.7% | +0.8% |
| UREA | 2026-04-02 | [Raising energy and fertilizer prices and upcoming El Niño main concerns to farming  - Joint Research Centre](https://feedsoft.ai/events/19632-raising-energy-and-fertilizer-prices-and-upcoming-el-nino-main-concerns-to.md) | +1.6% | -1.2% |
| UREA | 2026-05-31 | [Wheat Futures Prices Have Surged 30% This Year As Iran War Hit Fertilizer Supplies and U.S. Drought Sent Output To A 54-Year Low](https://feedsoft.ai/events/19292-wheat-futures-prices-have-surged-30-this-year-as-iran-war-hit-fertilizer.md) | -21.5% | -30.2% |
| UREA | 2026-04-29 | [Indonesia 2026 crude palm oil output to fall due to El Nino, high fertiliser prices, association says \| The Star](https://feedsoft.ai/events/19818-indonesia-2026-crude-palm-oil-output-to-fall-due-to-el-nino-high-fertiliser.md) | -9.4% | -17.3% |

## Sources

- stonex.com: https://www.stonex.com/en-gb/insights/farmer-fertilizer-focus-phosphates-2021-07-02/
- stonex.com: https://www.stonex.com/en/insights/farmer-fertilizer-focus-potash-2021-07-02/
- stonex.com: https://www.stonex.com/en-us/insights/farmer-fertilizer-focus-potash-2021-07-02/
- stonex.com: https://www.stonex.com/en-us/insights/farmer-fertilizer-focus-urea-2021-07-02/

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