Averting Food Crises: The Synergy of Fertilizers and Predictive Analytics for Food Security

Averting Food Crises: The Synergy of Fertilizers and Predictive Analytics for Food Security

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Food security is a global concern, with the world's population rising, a struggle to meet climate targets and the war in Ukraine triggering particularly severe disruptions to global markets for critical raw materials. Food crises create human suffering and require emergency relief, which is why we must find ways to prevent them from happening. One route is safeguarding fertilizers, which are critical to enhancing agricultural productivity and crop yields. Another is using predictive analytics. This article discusses fertilizer production with reference to CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF), The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Sage Potash (TSX.V: SAGE).

Food security depends on raw inputs like natural gas or minerals like potash and nitrogen in fertilizer production. Fertilizers are crucial to enhance crop yield and quality, but the past eighteen months have been volatile. Indeed, geopolitical tensions, energy prices, and economic weakness have impacted the production rates and prices of fertilizer ingredients.

Agriculture is a sector that operates cyclically, where farmers need to plan for their fertilizer purchases. However, if fertilizer prices are too high, farmers may choose to delay their purchases in hopes of lower prices in the future. This delay could impact the quality of the following year's harvest if the farmers have yet to acquire enough fertilizer.

Ensuring a reliable domestic supply of critical ingredients is essential to avoid such situations. This can reduce the likelihood of sudden and significant fertilizer price increases, providing stability and security to the agricultural sector.

The geopolitical unrest, sparked by Russia's aggression towards Ukraine and the resulting sanctions that impact 40% of the world's potash sources (originating from Russia and Belarus), has made the creation of a self-sufficient supply in the United States the only viable option. For instance, Sage Potash Corp (TSX.V: SAGE) is exploring a large-scale, high-grade potash resource within the Paradox Basin of Southeast Utah and pioneering a new scalable, environmentally friendly and more cost-effective method of potash production in the US which could ensure a short path to initial production.

Meanwhile, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF), the world's largest ammonia producer, is joining forces with South Korea's leading chemical company LOTTE CHEMICAL Corporation. Together they will assess the development of and investment in a greenfield clean ammonia production facility in the United States. Ammonia is a key ingredient in the production of nitrogen-based fertilizers.

Securing a domestic supply of critical ingredients essential to producing fertilizers ensures a stable supply that should be more cost-effective than importing. It can also help support domestic industries and create jobs.

Predictive analytics can likewise help secure the domestic supply of fertilizer ingredients. By analyzing data on domestic production levels, consumption patterns, and market trends, predictive analytics can help identify potential supply chain disruptions and other risks that could affect the availability of critical ingredients. Decision-makers can use this data to develop contingency plans and take proactive measures to ensure a stable supply of these ingredients.

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS), a global leader in the production of two vital agricultural nutrients, concentrated phosphate and potash, has been collaborating with PwC to leverage advanced analytics and climate modeling to help it make informed decisions, manage risk and support the stability of the global food system.

Meanwhile, a recent Science.org article discusses predicting food crises using news streams. Researchers used recent advances in deep learning to analyze 11.2 million news articles published between 1980 and 2020 that focused on food-insecure countries. By extracting high-frequency precursors to food crises that are both interpretable and validated by traditional risk indicators, the researchers were able to create more accurate predictive models.

The study shows that leveraging machine learning techniques to analyze news articles can help predict food crises with greater accuracy and timeliness than traditional risk indicators alone. This could improve emergency relief efforts and reduce the impact of food insecurity on vulnerable populations. Furthermore, farmers can also use predictive analytics to optimize fertilizer application, reduce waste, improve crop management, and enhance supply chain management.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is a company heavily investing in predictive analytics. Its IBM Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture uses Watson AI to analyze data and provide predictive insights that support better-informed and more confident decision-making. Both fertilizer ingredient supply and predictive analytics play a crucial role in preventing food crises by contributing to sustainable and resilient food systems capable of supporting population growth.  IBM and Latin American-based nonprofit Plan21 Foundation have partnered to support smallholder farmers in Latin America to increase their productivity and income. The partnership will create a phone app to help farmers learn how to use weather and crop data and calculate their carbon footprint. This will help them manage their crops more effectively and sustainably and make better choices in dealing with climate change.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) is focused on providing sustainable energy to support global food and fuel needs. It aims to decarbonize its ammonia production network, the largest in the world, to produce green and blue hydrogen and nitrogen products for use in energy, fertilizer, emissions reduction, and other industrial applications. CF Industries delivered outstanding results in 2022, producing record financial performance for the fourth quarter and full year.

Sage Potash Corp (TSX.V: SAGE) is an American potash exploration company that has just launched on the TSX Venture exchange. It owns a large-scale, high-grade potash resource within the Paradox Basin of Southeast Utah. The Company is pioneering a scalable and cost-effective method of production that will also have greater environmental sustainability and a shorter lead time to initial production.

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) is one of the world's leading producers and marketers of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients. Mosaic is a single-source provider of fertilizers and feed ingredients for the global agriculture industry.

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Industry Experts Cl   ark   Sazwan to Join Board of Directors, Amir Rahimtula as Global Finance & Trade Partner and Shilo Sazwan as Strategic Operations Partner

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About Sage Potash Corp.

Sage Potash is a Canadian company vested solely in the Sage Plain Property and intends through sustainable solution mining techniques to become a prominent domestic potash producer within the Paradox Basin situated in Utah . For further information, please refer to the Company's disclosure record on SEDAR ( www.sedar.com ) or contact the Company by email at info@sagepotash.com .

On Behalf of the Board of Directors,

Peter Hogendoorn
CEO & Executive Chairman
(604) 764-2158
Website: www.sagepotash.com

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This news release may contain "forward-looking statements", which are statements about the future based on current expectations or beliefs. For this purpose, statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward–looking statements by their nature involve risks and uncertainties, and there can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate or true. Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law.

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Peter Hogendoorn , CEO, of Sage commented:   "The Company is pleased to announce this substantial private placement. Upon completion, we will be fully focused on advancing the drilling and pilot production phase throughout the balance of this year. We are grateful for the ongoing support of our shareholders during these challenging markets and look forward to delivering significant value on their investments."

About Sage Potash Corp.

Sage Potash is a Canadian company vested solely in the Sage Plain Property and intends through sustainable solution mining techniques to become a prominent domestic potash producer within the Paradox Basin situated in Utah . For further information, please refer to the Company's disclosure record on SEDAR ( www.sedar.com ) or contact the Company by email at info@sagepotash.com .

Website: www.sagepotash.com

On Behalf of the Board of Directors,

Peter Hogendoorn
CEO & Executive Chairman

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This news release may contain "forward-looking statements", which are statements about the future based on current expectations or beliefs. For this purpose, statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward–looking statements by their nature involve risks and uncertainties, and there can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate or true. Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law.

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Sage Potash CEO & Executive Chairman, Peter Hogendoorn , stated, "Sage's successful drilling permit applications represent a pivotal milestone on the Company's path to achieving pilot-scale potash mining and processing activities. The approved exploration wells will not only allow us to increase our understanding of the Sage Plain mineral resource, comprised in the Upper and Lower Cycle 18 potash beds underlying the Property, but these same wells will, in future, be transitioned to injection production and disposal wells. This is a highly significant de-risking event for the Company, as the most consequential permit approvals for the Project have now been secured, pending bonding."

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Concurrently with the Class I and Class III permits conversion, the Company will submit the Large Mine Operation ("LMO") permit for up to 150,000 TPY. In partnership with global engineering firm RESPEC, Sage is advancing engineering and designs for a 50,000 TPY pilot-scale potash solution mining operation, as part of its ongoing engineering studies and production permit application. Data from this program, along with plant design and engineering details, will be included to complete the final LMO application for permit approval.

Following receipt of the news that the Company had secured governmental approval for the Class V wells, Sage Potash CEO & Executive Chairman, Peter Hogendoorn, expressed renewed confidence in the coming year, stating, "We recognize the prevailing capital market conditions for conventional project advancement are extremely difficult. As a result, the Company and, in particular, the team in our US subsidiary, Sage Potash ( USA ) Corp., have focused on permitting and engineering, whereby value can be realized at the 'Project level'. With the developments to date, together with the highly strategic land position of contiguous State and Private mineral leases from which up to 70 mining units, each consisting of 320 acres, can be developed, management believes the Project has now achieved significant milestones and, accordingly, eliminated substantial barriers to entry, which can be value realized in terms of time and capital for strategic interests."

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About Sage Potash Corp.

Sage Potash is a Canadian company vested solely in the Sage Plain Property and intends through sustainable solution mining techniques to become a prominent domestic potash producer within the Paradox Basin situated in Utah . For further information, please refer to the Company's disclosure record on SEDAR ( www.sedar.com ) or contact the Company by email at info@sagepotash.com .

On Behalf of the Board of Directors,

Peter Hogendoorn
CEO & Executive Chairman

Website: www.sagepotash.com

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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