Southwestern focus on specialty potash and phosphate innovation

Fertilizer International will be present on the CRU stand at the 100th Annual Southwestern Fertilizer Conference & Centennial Anniversary Celebration, taking place from Sunday 12 July through Thursday 16 July 2026 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. Delegates can meet editor Simon Inglethorpe on site, pick up a complimentary copy of the latest issue and discuss market developments, specialty fertilizer trends and forthcoming editorial coverage with Simon and the wider CRU team.

This Southwestern edition highlights International Minerals Carlsbad’s acquisition of Mosaic Potash Carlsbad and its plans to restore langbeinite (SOPMg) production and grow the K‑Mag and Dynamate brands in US and international markets, in the feature “IMC brings renewal, investment and expert purpose to US specialty potash”. This IMC article is ungated for Southwestern delegates and can be read in full either in the print magazine picked up at the stand or online via Fertilizer International.

Alongside IMC, readers are pointed to a detailed technical and economic review of Phospholutions’ RhizoSorb technology in “Phospholutions – creating more value from every unit of phosphoric acid”, which explains how integrating RhizoSorb into conventional phosphate fertilizer plants can increase phosphorus availability while cutting ammonia, sulphur and phosphate rock intensity per tonne of finished product.

The Southwestern package also features “The US fertilizer market – different nutrients with divergent stories”, in which Justin Rackleff, CRU’s Americas Lead, Fertilizer Value Chain, sets out how US urea, phosphate and potash markets have diverged through the second quarter, drawing on CRU’s North American Fertilizer Dashboard and providing forward‑looking context for buyers and producers attending the conference.

Delegates can read all three articles in the print magazine collected from the CRU stand. Readers who are not at the conference can access the same content via the Fertilizer International digital edition; the IMC feature is open access, while the Phospholutions and Justin Rackleff articles are part of our subscriber‑only coverage and require an active subscription. Anyone wishing to subscribe or upgrade their access can contact Jennifer Gibson.

“As we move into the summer market, the story is less about supply shortages and more about how demand and affordability are shaping buyer behaviour,” notes Justin Rackleff in his US fertilizer market interview. “Despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, inventories across much of the US remain broadly adequate and producers, particularly in urea, have responded by becoming increasingly aggressive on price to generate business.”