食品价格的一路飙升正带动化肥需求的上涨，美盛公司也将成为如必和必拓等公司的极具吸引力的收购对象。

With food prices soaring, pushing up the demand for fertiliser, Mosaic may make an attractive takeover target for the likes of BHP Billiton.

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钾肥的诱惑如此之大，去年甚至有传闻称，淡水河谷和必和必拓可能竞标收购全球最大的化肥公司诸如美国的美盛公司和加拿大钾肥公司(PCS)。

Such is the allure of potash that rumours last year suggested that Vale or BHP might bid for a big global fertiliser company such as America's Mosaic or PCS of Canada.

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美国化肥集团美盛公司（Mosaic）的首席执行官吉姆•普罗科潘柯（Jim Prokopanko）解释道，农业及其支持产业过去没有得到“充分重视”。

Agriculture and its support industries were not "fully appreciated", explains Jim Prokopanko, chief executive of US-based fertiliser group Mosaic.

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