The region is also flush with uranium and potash, a key ingredient in fertilizer.
The family developed the upscale Miami neighborhood of Williams Island, has invested in fertilizer, auto parts and clothing companies, and owns a high-end fashion modeling agency.
But as everybody from electricity customers in California to fertilizer producers in Oklahoma has learned this winter, gas still has the combustible effects that caused a backlash three decades ago.
When British intelligence broke up a plot in 2004 to use fertilizer in a series of attacks, it discounted the plotters' links to two men - Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer.
Anhydrous ammonia, a gas used in making fertilizer, can cause severe burns if it combines with water in the body.
In 1960, Texas Grain Storage added a small fertilizer blend plant for farmers in the area and started selling fertilizer and grain-storage services for other farmers in Texas, the company said in the court filing.
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The West Rest Haven was destroyed in the fertilizer blast, its 133 residents evacuated.
The reason Bunge stock plunged before is that the markets saw its earnings were going to be battered by a double-whammy in the fertilizer business.
The fire began in the fertilizer and seed building, but authorities still were trying to figure out the exact spot, the fire marshal's office said Monday.
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It is not entirely clear just what United States' interest is to be served by the dramatic improvement in Soviet fertilizer production likely to result from this transaction.
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The purchase was made in the name of a trust for Ekatarina Rybolovleva, a 22-year-old college student and daughter of Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian now based in Monaco who made a fortune in potash fertilizer.
The sector is heavily dependent on costly imports of the raw materials used in producing fertilizer, and Lula wanted to cut farmers costs, and thus allow for space to reduce subsidies, by getting Vale to dig and produce potassium at sites it has leased from the government, but has not yet produced much of anything.
Assistant State Fire Marshal Kelly Kistner told CNN that 18 Texas firefighters have died on duty so far this year, including 10 first responders killed in an explosion at a fertilizer distribution facility in West, Texas.
Also in 2011, he established fertilizer-producer Slavkaly in Belarus.
Three-quarters of the company's sales are of nitrogen fertilizers, and it has a big position in domestic production, with two of the three largest nitrogen fertilizer plants in North America.
While it helps the environment by preventing erosion, no-till farming keeps fertilizer in the upper soil.
But the inclination to subsidize inputs (in particular, fertilizer) could prove to be a bad habit that is very tough to break.
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Call it an update, a refresh or digging in some economic fertilizer.
Other culprits include the application of fertilizer in the fall, when the ground is bare, and the spreading of manure on the surface, instead of into the soil.
's Concern brand is one of two dozen companies offering an alternative to Turf Builder in a lawn fertilizer weed-control product that is derived from corn (but kills weeds like crabgrass only as they germinate).
In July she gave her party's support to prime minister Singh's much-anticipated reform initiative for the country, which will include building infrastructure, increasing energy potential and managing food, fuel and fertilizer in the crowded nation.
As a result, in late January they made an announcement that fertilizer producers will be first in line to get any natural gas.
Even if some cadmium remains in phosphate, it shouldn't be a major threat to health as long as fertilizer is used in the proper amounts and with good drainage.
But they are also used in the production of fertilizer, garden mulch, and soil conditioner.
We note that currently in Europe, nitrogen fertilizer inventories are at some of their lowest levels ever.
Kennedy announced an investigation and Congress held hearings as the case grew wider to include federal agriculture programs and an alleged attempt to corner the liquid fertilizer market in West Texas.
The company did a lifecycle analysis of its Tropicana brand orange juice, which revealed that more than 50% of the lifecycle carbon emissions related to a single quart of orange juice is in excess use of fertilizer.
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The Science of Success is short on concrete examples, and Koch acknowledges that implementing his Market Based Management can be difficult because of the hazy connection between, say, property rights and the day-to-day decisions of a midlevel manager in charge of a fertilizer plant.
And the firm has had their head in the emerging market game since it started selling Peruvian seagull droppings as fertilizer for British farmers back in the 1860s.
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