Trump Tried to Replace Canada's Potash. What He Found Out Next Stopped Him Cold.

 

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That is the share of every kilogram of potash fertilizer used by American farmers in 2025 that came from Canada — from a single Canadian province, from six underground mines, all of them in Saskatchewan, all of them digging the same Devonian-era salt deposits laid down 900 million years ago when central North America was covered by a shallow inland sea. 

 

Eighty-seven percent of every bag of potash that fed every cornfield in Iowa. Every soybean field in Illinois. Every wheat field in Nebraska. Every potato field in Idaho. Every cotton field in Texas. The entire industrial-scale agriculture of the American Midwest, the American Plains, and the American South, dependent on a single critical mineral that is mined in commercial volume in exactly one place in the world. Saskatchewan, Canada. 

 

The United States Geological Survey published the number this past March. It was not breaking news. It was not a surprise to anyone in the fertilizer industry. It was not a surprise to the United States Department of Agriculture, which has tracked Canadian potash dependence since the 1960s. It was not a surprise to any of the major agricultural lobbying organizations that have testified before Congress on this exact subject for four decades. 

 

 It was, however, a surprise to Donald Trump.

 

 

 

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