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| We realize better margins on that – on the production side |
| Just realized stripping margins for Mosaic to be very good going forward |
| So all-in-all, our current market access to the majority -- the big part of the North American market in Brazil and also China, India give us confidence that we will be the one to commercialize this biological microbial product in the near future and really adding value to our business and differentiate ourselves from other commodity producers |
| Phosphate market has been very strong, over the last many quarters |
| And then the financial focus that he had with our CFO, Clint Freeland, over the last couple of years, really strengthen our balance sheet and set us up for success |
| It allows for me to really come in, with a strong foundation and focus on now, what I think is, we haven't quite got to is, optimizing our portfolio, looking for further efficiencies, cost structure changes and all to deliver higher shareholder returns |
| Growing our product portfolio and I think we've had great success |
| So last year four out of the five potash markets got a strong demand recovery |
| It's strengthened and optimized the balance sheet |
| We're extremely happy with the distribution business in Brazil |
| Our brand is extremely well |
| So we're feeling very good about where we are from an asset health standpoint on sulfuric acid |
| And I think it works well for us from an economic standpoint in that large growing region |
| I think we've demonstrated that very well over the last several years, particularly last year with $900 million debt refinanced and we've given $1.1 billion back in share buybacks and dividends, increased our dividend last year 10% |
| So we're very proud of those products |
| We are seeing very strong response starting from Q4 last year and Q1 this year |
| So, that level actually supported very strong demand for phosphates specifically |
| Last year, after a very big supply disruptions in 2022, post the conflict in Europe, last year we saw a very strong demand recovery |
| We think that the inflationary pressures, we've got a good path to offset a lot of those and continue to be very competitive and advantaged in Brazil |
| What that bacterials consortia do was really to help to improve the uptake of the new transpired crops and eventually improve the yield |
| The demand is going to be strong |
| And the performance product side all of which enhance either soil health or yield for farmers on the same fixed amount of acres |
| One of the reasons, on demand side is, really the very tight global, grain and oilseed stock-to-use ratio, and that has supported a pretty robust farm economics |
| We're seeing -- we're doing field trials right now in Brazil and getting results seeing above last generation MicroEssentials was a 3% increase in soybeans generation to generation on MicroEssentials, which is about an 8% increase versus the commodity approach, right? So good value on the farm |
| And I think, my history in the past is going to serve me well going forward, how do we continue to transform, wring out cost where we can in our global structures and look for ways to deliver more value creation and higher shareholder returns |
| And we've done a great job of that over the last 15 to 20 years, particularly in phosphates, but also in potash as well |
| And then that is going to -- that actually improved the uptick of NPK for the crops therefore to improve yield |
| Is that the future for that operation to continue to get more and more market share in distribution in the country? Bruce Bodine Well, Steve, we are extremely happy with that acquisition |
| Bruce Bodine And so given that Steve, I mean Jenny summarized the market well, but tight phosphate S&D, we think very constructive |
| And the distribution, as Jenny was talking about earlier, with our biologics and our performance products, really brings to scale access in that key market and we see a lot of growth there |
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| Post-COVID, we've really struggled -- there's reasons for that |
| We've had some production issues in South America |
| Making the hook into Tampa and threaten our operations and having to shut those down cold at times |
| We have struggled with some inflationary pressures on the production side primarily, but it's affected everywhere |
| Some of you may say, well, today's corn prices or soybean prices seem to be under pressure |
| The economics were a little difficult for our Calanti [ph] operations |
| Our cost structure gets impacted |
| A bigger driver was really the restriction of Chinese export on phosphate and they largely reduced export almost by half – by 50% in 2022 versus the previous year |
| Last year it recovered a little bit |
| So we reduced production in China and that the government has been very clear |
| And lastly, I would want to say with all the sanctions against the Russians and Belarusians and also all the troubles they've gone through on the logistics that has added significant cost to serve for these producers |
| So I've had an experience that I'm really blessed to see kind of all corners of our operations across the globe in Brazil, in China and North America, north of the Canadian border and south, and yeah, really been blessed |
| We had to push some of those things out because of just labor constraint supply chain constraints and with a fleet of 12 to 14 sulfuric acid plants in Central Florida |
| Throw into that some things outside of our control which were hurricanes |
| If we think about the demand destruction in 2022 that was purely driven by supply disruption |
| The supply disruptions partially happened in 2022 was due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine |
| And on the supply side, we expect the Russians will be back to the pre-war level |
| So that actually added pressure to the market while the demand was recovering very strongly as well |
| So if you recall, the environmental policy change in – during the 2015 to 2020 years, there were 25% of the phosphate capacities were permanently shut down by the Chinese government because of the pollution |
| Steve Byrne And let's get on Fertilizantes here at the end, your outlook for that business down there |
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