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| And that's a very positive move |
| Tony Will Overall, I think, though, the message you'll hear from us is we're very -- we're very optimistic about what the S&D balance looks like and what the demand for our products are on a global basis |
| Our shareholders have been much better off based on the combined approach that we've taken to both disciplined add capacity and also take shares out of the marketplace |
| At every stage, we have been able to invest capital and earn a rate of return well above our cost of capital |
| Our investments in people, safety and reliability have built the industry's highest performing manufacturing network, as you can see on Slide 6 |
| And so there's a lot of positive energy going forward with that and what we will bring to the market |
| As a result, we are confident that our cash generation will remain strong, as underscored by the recent increase in our quarterly dividend and continued share repurchases |
| We have the best safety statistics in the world |
| Our company share a belief that North America is the best location for production of low carbon ammonia, given natural gas cost advantages and access to CCS sites and expertise |
| And so when you couple that all together, as well as global supply and demand, I would say we're positive for 2023 -- 2024 |
| A strong fall application season indicates a commitment to nitrogen consuming crops on these acres and robust demand for additional urea and UAN applications through the first half of 2024 |
| This, along with strong ag fundamentals, supports our outlook for a positive spring application season |
| We believe that our in region production and extensive logistics and distribution capabilities will serve us well in this environment |
| Bert Frost Plus, I'll add one more positive comment for the team, for the company and for what we are about as a company with the Do It Right culture, we have the highest onstream factor |
| But we feel very good about the likelihood of a reasonable premium that adds on to what's a very attractive regulatory framework for Blue |
| Looking ahead, forward energy curves suggest continued favorable energy spreads between low cost North American production and high cost production in Europe and Asia |
| We believe this will support sustained margin opportunities for our low cost manufacturing asset base |
| As you can see on Slide 7 and 8, on both a free cash flow yield and a precedent transaction basis, our enterprise value is significantly undervalued, supporting continued share repurchases |
| We're looking at another good year this year |
| Our outlook is positive |
| 91 million acres of corn and good moisture and wheat country and as well as good value surpassed |
| Our results last year were strong |
| And so I look for a very positive spring demand for UAN and urea as well as ammonia |
| These results reflect a healthy nitrogen supply demand balance and global energy spreads that favor our low cost production base in North America |
| And so we are benefiting from the drop in the daily cash rate on a piece of it as well |
| Longer term, disciplined investments in low-carbon ammonia production can provide a robust growth platform for the company |
| For the values for the feed grains, corn at $4.60, $4.70 is very attractive, especially when you look at trend yield over 180 and yields in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana above 200, it's very profitable |
| After a challenging start to 2023, we ended the year with a 12-month recordable incident rate of 0.36 incidents per 200,000 work hours, in line with our performance in recent years and significantly better than industry averages |
| Our operational excellence and significant structural advantages underpin our cash generation |
| In the near term, we expect industry fundamentals to remain favorable to our low-cost production network |
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| We expect continued supply constraints in key producing regions, most notably ammonia production economics in Europe remain challenging |
| We believe that there has been significant volume of domestic nitrogen production lost due to weather related shutdowns across the region's supply base |
| We estimate that CF Industries lost approximately 150,000 tons of ammonia production in January from our own network due to the weather, unexpected supply tightness often leads to follow on logistics challenges and early spring would further strain the supply chain |
| Adding to this tight supply demand situation is the risk that existing ammonia production capacity in several important regions remains on the verge of permanent closure due to constrained availability and cost of natural gas |
| The imports have been lower, and that's been fairly consistent, but when you go back and look at it in totality, the low level of inventory we believe that we carried in, coupled with the low level of imports to date, and we're tracking vessel nominations in what we think are coming in, in Feb, March and April, it's going to be a challenge |
| Adding into the either supply deficit or demand increase is you've got some plants around the world, including Trinidad and probably Europe that are facing challenges with gas availability and gas cost |
| The cold snap we experienced in North America during January has exacerbated this situation |
| And this is during a period when European natural gas prices have actually come down over 40% |
| And so our forward call is we're probably going to see and we are seeing some price appreciation you're going to see demand coming forward earlier, and we're prepared or being prepared for that eventuality even with some of the loss of production we experienced in January, we believes others in our industry experienced as well, but these are the challenges we face, and we will meet them |
| I was wondering what's the thought process here, considering that we saw John Deere on year-to-date being a little bit more downbeat and I think USDA report last month was a little bit down bit to |
| We've talked about the North American as being low, but we all know Brazil has been a little bit more of an issue |
| I also think that some of the other changes kind of structurally, whether it's potential imports running slower than expected in early spring what we believe is lower channel inventories than kind of many expect out there |
| Beyond Europe, natural gas availability continues to affect ammonia and UAN production in Trinidad |
| As we continue to work with customers in advance of spring applications, we believe supply is more constrained in the North American nitrogen channel than industry expectations |
| The big issue in terms of last year versus this year was we had -- we entered into last year with a fairly high inventory level |
| Why is that? Related to energy, of course, and the inability of -- or the non-economic position of the European producer and higher imports, but you're seeing in terms of the global market of a very tight market, you've had downtime in Malaysia, export restrictions in Indonesia, export restrictions in China, as well as heavy imports and continued imports into India, but heavy imports into Brazil |
| some lower production in the U.S., we're hearing that there might be a much less level of imports this spring than in prior years |
| But if we decide not to proceed, I think it's a combination of very likely just aggregate costs associated with moving forward and lack of line of sight on making sure that we can earn an appropriate risk-adjusted rate of return against that cost nut |
| There's also an issue of if you can acquire deepwater traded ammonia at a cost that's lower than what you can produce using domestic gas |
| And then, again, weaving into that an early spring impacts that even more |
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