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How To Use Potash In Wheat l Potash Importance For WheatPotash fertilizer: Muriate of potash

MOP, or potassium chloride, is the most commonly used potash fertilizer and can be used to farm a variety of foods, particularly chloride-loving vegetables such as sugar beets, corn, celery and Swiss chard. It can be beneficial for soil that is low in chloride, building the plants’ disease resistance.

There are some drawbacks to this kind of potash fertilizer. For example, if high levels of chloride are present in the soil or if irrigation water is being used to grow crops, adding MOP can create a toxic imbalance in plant nutrients. That means levels of the fertilizer have to be carefully managed, and MOP must only be used for select crops.

Still, MOP remains one of the most commercial fertilizers in the potash family, with over 55 million tonnes being sold and used annually. Having said that, the popularity of MOP in recent years has led potash production to outpace demand, resulting in lower-than-desired prices for the fertilizer product. The potash fertilizer market improved moderately in early 2020, but is still far from its peak in 2009.

Nutrien (TSX:NTR,NYSE:NTR), a company formed by the merger between Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and Agrium, is a major producer of MOP. However, due to anticipated future demand for fertilizers that promote crop production and plant growth, many smaller companies have began exploring and developing their own potash mines and production projects.