Agrium profit slides with potash sales

Fertiliser products group Agrium earned $370-million in the second quarter of 2009, compared with net earnings of $636-million a year earlier. Profit was hurt by lower potash sales volumes, as well as weaker prices for most of the group's...

Agrium posts Q1 loss on lacklustre demand

Fertiliser products group Agrium lost $60-million in the first three months of this year, compared with net earnings of C$195-million a year earlier, after a significant decline in potash sales volumes, and lower prices for nitrogen and phosphate...