Sustaining Sponsor Spotlight: Nutrien

The Ohio AgriBusiness Association is pleased to feature our Sustaining Sponsors in the 2024 Spotlight Series. This week, the focus is on Platinum Sponsor: Nutrien.

Location (Main Headquarters): Saskatoon, SK (Main Headquarters) with offices in Deerfield, IL, Loveland, CO, and Calgary, AB.

Year started: 2018 (merger of PotashCorp (1975) and Agrium (1995, formerly Cominco: 1931))

Number of employees: 23,500

Number of facilities: 26 production facilities and over 2,000 retail locations in seven countries

Type of services offered: Nutrien is the world’s largest provider of crop inputs and services, playing a critical role in helping growers increase food production in a sustainable manner. We produce and distribute approximately 27 million tons of potash, nitrogen and phosphate products worldwide and we deliver leading solutions through the world’s premier Ag retail network, providing exceptional access to growers across three continents. We operate in 13 countries with more than 23,500 employees globally.

Company history: Nutrien was born of the merger between PotashCorp and Agrium, both companies with a proud history of providing crop nutrients to farmers in North America and around the world. The combined result is an integrated platform to better serve customers with low cost, high value products and services with an increased emphasis on efficiency and innovation.

How has your company changed over the years?

Our unique mix of world-class assets and position across the agricultural value chain provides exceptional opportunities to create value. Nutrien’s strategy is to strengthen our channel to the grower and improve our competitive position as the world’s largest crop input retailer through optimizing our world-class and low-cost production assets.

How do you see your company growing in the future?

Our purpose to grow our world from the ground up means taking our role in protecting the planet seriously. By 2050, the agriculture sector will need to grow food for almost 10 billion people. At this pivotal moment in history, we need to consider how we feed a growing world while providing nature-positive solutions. 

By the year 2030, we aim to make key transformations through ambitious global commitments that drive systemic change and lead the next wave of agricultural evolution. 

We have developed strategic sustainability priorities that address our most material environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities. This means innovating and improving to create long-term value with global impact. 

Our focus areas are: 

• Feeding the Planet Sustainably: Strengthen food security by scaling sustainable and productive agriculture
• Environment and Climate Action: Provide solutions and platforms to achieve emissions reductions in alignment with climate science
• Inclusive Agriculture: Support rural livelihoods and increase participation of underrepresented stakeholders in agriculture

Interesting tidbits about your business:

We are the world’s largest provider of crop inputs, services, and solutions:

• Largest global potash producer with our flexible network of six Potash facilities with a combined nameplate capacity of 20.6 Mmt
• Nine Nitrogen facilities with an annual capacity of 7.1 Mmt of ammonia. Our large-scale nitrogen facility in Trinidad is well located to serve key import markets
• Two large integrated Phosphate mines in the US, in addition to four smaller upgrading facilities with an annual capacity of 1.7 Mmt of P₂O₅ capacity
• Over 2,000 Retail locations worldwide
• Nutrien strives to meaningfully contribute to the communities globally and locally where we operate. In 2021, we invested $19M in communities and have over 2,700 community partnerships. 

How has OABA helped your business or the agribusiness industry?

OABA has helped to bring awareness about our business and product offerings to our customers.

Anything else you would like to share:

We have developed a website – eKonomics: that contains one-of-a-kind tools, research and original content all designed to help quickly make sense – and money – out of today’s crop nutrition information. The site features concise summaries of the latest crop nutrition research, tips and tools for more productive soils, industry news, commodity future prices, rainfall data, plus our Nutrient ROI Calculator and Nationwide Nutrient Balance Analysis. Check out all the valuable information, visit www.nutrien-ekonomics.com.

Interested in becoming a Sustaining Sponsor? 

Click here to learn more about the program or contact Lauren Prettyman at lprettyman@oaba.net. Sustaining sponsors will automatically be promoted as such at all OABA events and will not be approached for sponsorship opportunities throughout the year. 

Note that because the OABA Educational Trust is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, sponsorships related to this trust are separate from OABA.