The World Fertilizer Economy, Issue 10

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Stanford University Press, 1957 - Business & Economics - 715 pages
Plant nutrients and environment. Origin and classification of fertilizer. Availability of plant nutrients in manures and fertilizer. Yield responses to commercial fertilizer. Consumption of fertilizer in various countries. Potential fertilizer production. International trade in fertilizer. Compotetion among fertilizers. Trade agreements among fertilizer firms before world war II. The new wartime fertilizer pattern in belligerent countries. The basic fertilizer triangle of the allies: Unite States, Unite Kingdom, And Canada. The basic fertilizer triangle: Allocations and price control. British dominions: Australia, New Zealand, and Union of South Africa. North Africa and the levant. Europe in the Orbit. European neutrals and nonbelligerents. Soviet Union. Countries of far Eastern Asia. Latin America. Varying importance of fertilizer factors. Fertilizer use in the United States. Fertilizer use in the british commonwealth. Fertilizer use in two axis countries. Fertilizer use in the Soviet Union. Fertilizer use in Egypt. Fertilizer use in Switzerland. Comparison of fertilizer application in various countries. Wartime fertilizer prices. Adjustment of supply and demand. Fertilizer trusts and cartels. Fertilizer in the future.