Morning Meeting: How high can Potash go?

By Bret Jensen:Agrium’s (AGU) management made a bold move today by announcing it will invest $1.5B to grow its potash production by 50% by 2014 and quadrupling its dividend immediately.

The Walt Disney Company (DIS) Annual Meeting of Shareholders Conference Call March 06, 2013, 12:00 pm ET Executives Bob Iger - Chairman & CEO Belinda Massafra - Representative, Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions Cornish Hitchcock - Representative, Hermes Equity Ownership Services Orin Smith - Director Roy E. Disney - Co-Founder Alan Braverman - SVP & General Counsel

By Marc Davis, BNWnews.ca In spite of a flurry of headlines in recent weeks heralding a game-changing consolidation of the world’s lucrative potash mining industry, Canada’s two small aspiring potash miners are standing firm.Both Western Potash (TSX.V: WPX) and Potash One (TSX: KCL) say they are committed to building mines that will be in business for decades. In other words, they’re not for sale.

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., the world’s largest fertilizer producer, scrapped a proposed takeover bid for Israel Chemicals Ltd. after opposition to the deal from workers and Israeli politicians. “Now is not the time to pursue this opportunity,” Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based Potash Corp. said Thursday in its first-quarter earnings statement.

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Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. reported a decline in fourth quarter earnings on Thursday as the company generated weaker results from all of its nutrients and absorbed a couple of one-time charges. Chief executive Bill Doyle noted that global fertilizer markets “paused” in the quarter in the absence of “significant immediate needs” and a lack of direction.

A rebounding fertilizer industry and an eye-popping $39 billion dollar bid for Potash Corp. (POT) by the world’s largest mining company, BHP Billiton (BHP), are telling signals – ones that suggest that Canada’s tiny handful of potash producers and aspiring miners are ripe plums for the picking.