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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

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  • Phosphate is also important but it’s a different type of fertilizer than ammonia/urea based fertilizers. Plants need NPK as their macronutrients - nitrogen (N) , phosphorus (P) and potassium (K). Most fertilizers applied at farms are blends of these in different ratios. Urea is the main N fertilizer that is relevant to this conflict because it is made through the Haber Bosch process, in which methane/natural gas/LNG provides the hydrogen and energy source, and nitrogen from the atmosphere react to make ammonia NH3, which is then converted into urea. Phosphate mines, as the name suggests, produce phosphate chemicals, different variations of P2O5 and PO4. All of NPK are important to plants and one can’t replace the others, like the way people can’t just eat carbs, just protein or just fat.

    Indirectly phosphate producers like morroco might become a bit more important because agribusiness is watching world urea supply dry up and wondering if the same could happen to phosphate, but really they’re independent and both important.