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Making Fertilizer from Natural Gas in Iowa?
September 7, 2012 | Business Week

With natural gas at the lowest price in over a decade it has become economically attractive to use it as a raw material for making fertilizer. A company from Egypt plans to build a 2-million-tons-per-year fertilizer plant in Iowa.


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