Rove offers election perspective to fert conference; World Food Program speaker highlights global hunger

摘要

Some 780 fertilizer industry representatives from around the world gathered in Seattle, Wash., Sept. 7-10 for The Fertilizer Institute's 2008 World Fertilizer Conference. Despite hotel registration headaches caused by a computer problem at the downtown Westin Seattle that left some delegates without rooms on the opening night of the event, attitudes at the conference were upbeat and were buoyed by optimism about continued strength in global fertilizer pricing and demand on a long-term basis. On a near-term basis, the situation appeared to be more bearish, at least for some products (see Market Watch, p. 2).