Regional Fertilizer Situation Reports
(All available in PDF with exception of China.  Excel & WordPerfect format also available.)

The Regional Reports include graphs and table illustrating fertilizer trends for 1988/89-1998/99 including these:

• Regional Fertilizer Surplus/Deficit by Nutrient

• Fertilizer Capacity Tables by Country

• Fertilizer Consumption Per Acre of Arable Land by Country

• Projected Nutrient Supply and Consumption

• Nutrient Production, Consumption and Trade by Country

• Historical Fertilizer Pricing

• Nutrient Production, Consumption and Trade by Product

• Cereal Crop Acreage and Yields by Country

• Fertilizer Use by Crop by Country

• Other Regional Statistics

North America Fertilizer Capacity Listings by Plant
(All available in PDF & Excel)

Includes plant capacity data for ammonia, nitric acid, urea, ammonium sulfate, nitrogen solutions, phosphate rock, wet-process phosphoric acid, superphosphoric acit, ammonium phosphates, normal superphosphate, concentrated superphosphate, upgraded phosphoric acids, elemental phosphorous, potassium sulfate, sulfate of potash/magnesia, muriate of potash, potassium nitrate, and NPK granulation plants for Canada, United States, Mexico, and Trinidad (34 pages)

Worldwide Fertilizer Capacity Listings by Plant
(All available in PDF & Excel--potash data in Microsoft Access/Wordperfect format)

These reports are based on surveys sent to all known producers of these products throughout the world and incorporates all updates and review comments, press releases, and published reports by capacity.  The report includes company names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and contact information for each company as well as current and projected capacities.  The data is also presented in tabular form by country and region.

Capacity listings are available for the following:

Worldwide Directory of Fertilizers, Traders, Importers, & Organizations
(All available in PDF & WordPerfect)

This is a list of all known fertilizer trading companies worldwide by country, importing agencies and companies by country, and fertilizer-related organizations and associations.  The listing includes addresses, phone and fax numbers, and contacts.  (117 pages)

Recent Fertilizer Project Announcements: Worldwide
(All available in PDF & WordPerfect)

A summarization of project announcements of new plants or expansions of existing plants that have recently been reported in company press releases or reported by trade publications (Fertilizer Focus, Fertilizer Week, Fertilizer International, Fertilizer Markets, Green Markets, Nitrogen & Methanol, Phosphorous & Potassium, World Fertilizer Review, etc.)  1996-present (167 pages)

A Guide to Fertilizer Products for Traders
(All available in PDF format)

This report contains basic, non-technical information about the agronomic and physical advantages and disadvantages of materials ammonia, AN, urea, AS, CAN, phosphate rock, SSP, TSP, MAP, DAP, nitrophosphates, MOP, and potassiium sulfate.  (23 pages)

Fertilizer Manual

The fertilizer manual is a 1998 update of the IFDC/UNIDO Fertilizer Manual previously published in December 1979.  The 609-page manual is a comprehensive reference to almost all facets of the fertilizer industry.  Its 22 chapters include topic on General Concepts, Role of Fertilizers, Status of the Industry, Outlook, Raw Materials and Reserves, Ammonia Production, Ammonia Transportation and Storage, Nitric Acid, Urea, Liquids and Solutions, Sulfuric and Phosphoric Acid, Phosphoric Acid Derivatives, Nitrophosphates, Other Phosphates, Potash, Compounds, Micronutrients, Properties, Environmental Factors, Planning, Economics, Challenges.  Depending on the topic, some chapters are detailed and technical; others are much less so.