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	Agrium - Careers
		Agrium Inc. is a leading global producer and distributor of fertilizers and other agricultural products and services.
		Our Retail operation, with more than 225 retail farm centers in the U.S., is one of the largest independent retailers of fertilizers, seed and chemicals in North America and a major provider of agronomic and application services.
		Agrium’s employee brand, “People, Performance, Results,” highlights our increased focus on performance and the critical role our people play in delivering results.
	www.agrium.com /careers/index.cfm (157 words)

	NOVELL CUSTOMER SHOWCASE: Agrium
		Agrium Inc. is a leading global marketer and producer and distributor of crop nutrients and a major retail supplier of agricultural products and services in both North and South America.
		For the wholesale division of Agrium, the key to success in a commodity business is to keep costs as low as possible.
		Agrium has significantly reduced travel time to individual workstations and can image its machines 10-15 times faster.
	www.novell.com /success/agrium.html (856 words)

	Alaska Journal of Commerce Online
		Agrium U.S. Inc. hopes to switch its Kenai fertilizer plant's feedstock from natural gas to coal, a move that might allow the plant to eventually return to its full production rate of 2 million tons per year of ammonia and urea fertilizer.
		Agrium announced Nov. 16 it is considering installation of a coal gasifier at its Kenai fertilizer plant.
		Agrium is now working on securing additional commitments for gas, but if those cannot be obtained the plant will have to be shut down while the company works on its conversion to coal as a source of feedstock, Boycott said.
	www.alaskajournal.com /stories/112705/hom_20051127024.shtml (966 words)

	Slow market prompts Agrium layoffs
		Agrium officials discovered the plant had been expanded without all the necessary permits needed under the Environmental Protection Agency's Prevention of Significant Deterioration program.
		Agrium shut down its ammonia plant at Finley in December because of the rising cost of natural gas, a key ingredient.
		Agrium produces nitrogen, phosphate, potash and sulfur for agricultural fertilizers.
	www.tri-cityherald.com /news/2001/0725/story4.html (404 words)

	Agrium, Inc.
		Agrium, which has production facilities in Texas and near its headquarters in Alberta, Canada, is one of the world's largest producers of nitrogen fertilizers, with 1998 sales of $501 million.
		Agrium and Unocal are the leading sellers in the Northwest of the most popular nitrogen fertilizers: anhydrous ammonia, urea and UAN 32% solution.
		In addition, Agrium would be required to provide annual reports to the Commission for the full term of the order (10 years) and Unocal would be required to submit reports until the assets to be divested are transferred to Agrium.
	www.ftc.gov /opa/2000/09/agrium.shtm (991 words)

	Alaska Journal of Commerce Online \| Natural Resources
		Agrium Corp.’s plan to switch its Nikiski fertilizer plant from running on natural gas to coal would initially rely on coal shipped from the Usibelli coal mine at Healy to Anchorage and transferred to barges at the Port of Anchorage.
		Agrium is now in the front-end engineering design and permitting phase for the project, which is expected to last 18 to 20 months, Johnson said.
		Agrium now uses natural gas as a chemical feedstock in the manufacture of ammonia and urea, but reserves in Southcentral Alaska gas fields are being depleted and Agrium has encountered difficulties in getting enough gas to operate the plant.
	www.alaskajournal.com /stories/112606/oil_20061126071.shtml (845 words)

	News - Releases (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agrium Inc. (TSX and NYSE: AGU) announced today that its fourth quarter net earnings were $12-million ($0.07 per common share), a significant improvement over the loss of $80-million ($0.72 per common share) for the fourth quarter of 2001.
		Agrium's gas cost was lower and less volatile than NYMEX as a result of a cost advantage for natural gas purchased in Western Canada and long-term natural gas supply agreements at Kenai, Alaska and Profertil, Argentina.
		Agrium's strategy is to grow through incremental expansion of its existing operations and acquisitions as well as the development, commercialization and marketing of new products and international opportunities.
	www.seedquest.com /News/releases/2003/february/5310.htm (2772 words)

	MIKE WILSON - AGRIUM INC (AGU): 2006-06-19
		Wilson is on Agrium's Board of Directors and is currently a Director and Chair of Canpotex Ltd; Director of The Potash and Phosphate Institute and the Foundation of Agronomic Research; Director of The Fertilizer Institute; and Director of the Calgary Prostate Cancer Institute.
		Wilson: Agrium is now the largest publicly traded agricultural retailer in North America and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of crop nutrients, with annual sales of over $4.5 billion and 2005 EBITDA of almost $700 million including recent acquisitions.
		Agrium was IPO'ed as a separate public company, listed first on the Toronto Exchange in 1993, then a couple of years later on the New York Stock Exchange.
	www.twst.com /ceos/AEE601.htm (2986 words)

	Unocal Corporation ("Unocal") - CMP
		Agrium is a corporation organized, existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the country of Canada, with its office and principal place of business located at 13131 Lake Fraser Drive SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2J7E8, Canada.
		Agrium is a leading producer and marketer of fertilizer in North America and a major retail supplier of agricultural products and services in North America.
		Agrium is acquiring Unocal's corporate assets through its wholly owned subsidiary RSI Acquisition, Inc., a California corporation with its principal place of business located at 4582 S. Ulster St., Suite 1400, Denver, Colorado 80237.
	www.ftc.gov /os/2000/11/agriumunocalccmp.htm (981 words)

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		Incident Investigation Agrium has communicated to all of its employees that it is every employee's responsibility to report incidents and near misses to their immediate supervisor.
		Employee Participation Agrium is committed to involving employees and their representatives on the conduct and development of PHA and on the development of the other elements of plant safety, process safety management, and risk management planning.
		Agrium is committed to the implementation of the RPP to ensure safe operations of its plant and to prevent accident.
	www.rtk.net /rmp/sum7/IA/fac100000148422 (1571 words)

	globeandmail.com : globeinvestor.com : Agrium blames hedging, weather for 1st-qtr loss
		WINNIPEG (Reuters) - Canada's second-largest fertilizer producer, Agrium Inc., blamed natural gas hedging losses and wet weather in the Western United States for its first-quarter loss on Friday, but said it looks forward to gains during the planting season.
		Agrium lost $48 million, or 37 cents a share, for the quarter ended March 31, compared with a profit of $24 million, or 18 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter.
		Agrium said it expects earnings per share for the second quarter to be between $1.02 and $1.12.
	www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/story/ROC.20060505.2006-05-05T205331Z_01_N05229994_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-CHEMICALS-AGRIUM-EARNS-COL/GIStory (477 words)

	Rainbow Plant Food
		Agrium will use reasonable efforts to include accurate, relevant and up to date at the time it is posted.
		Agrium does not control any third-party web-site and is therefore not responsible for the accuracy of the content of any linked web-site or any link contained in a linked web-site.
		Agrium will not be liable to you for any claims, losses or damages suffered resulting from or arising out of the interpretation, reliance upon or other use, authorized or unauthorized, of such web-site or information.
	www.rainbowplantfood.com /legal_notice.htm (767 words)

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		Incident Investigation Agrium has communicated to all of its employees that it is every employee's responsibility to report incidents and near misses to their immediate supervisor.
		Employee Participation Agrium is committed to involving employees and their representatives on the conduct and development of PHA and on the development of the other elements of plant safety, process safety management, and risk management planning.
		Agrium is committed to the implementation of the RPP to ensure safe operations of its plant and to prevent accident.
	www.rtknet.org /rmp/sum7/ND/fac100000149617 (1571 words)

	Agrium Inc. and Royster-Clark ULC
		Agrium is a reporting issuer or the equivalent in each of the provinces of Canada.
		The Agrium Guarantee is substantially similar to the RC Guarantees and the terms of the Notes and related obligations have not changed, other than through the extension of the Agrium Guarantee.
		Furthermore, as Agrium, on a consolidated basis, is the relevant entity with respect to the Notes, Noteholders would not benefit from the requirement to have RC ULC file notices regarding changes in corporate structure, BARs and material contracts provided that Agrium complied with these requirements as required under the Legislation.
	www.msc.gov.mb.ca /legal_docs/orders/agrium.html (1969 words)

	Agrium Announces Third Quarter Results @ SYS-CON Media (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agrium revised its second half guidance to be $0.20 to $0.25 earnings per share on October 20, 2006.
		Agrium's third quarter consolidated net earnings were $1-million compared with net earnings of $72-million for the same quarter of 2005.
		Agrium's overall natural gas costs for product produced in the third quarter of 2006 was $4.61/MMBtu compared to $4.91/MMBtu in the same quarter of 2005 and compared to the average NYMEX price of $6.53/MMBtu in the third quarter of 2006.
	www.sys-con.com /read/294474.htm (4854 words)

	Agrium Concludes Pursell Acquisition, Further Enhancing Specialty Business : ArriveNet Press Releases : Industry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) announced today that it has concluded the purchase of certain fixed assets and inventory of Pursell Technologies Inc. and certain of its affiliates (PTI) for a purchase price of $74.5-million (U.S.).
		ESN ® is Agrium's environmentally friendly, polymer-coated fertilizer targeted to commodity agriculture.
		Agrium disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information as a result of new information or future events.
	press.arrivenet.com /industry/article.php/832885.html (547 words)

	Agrium Expands Controlled Release Business Through Pursell Acquisition - Science - RedOrbit
		Agrium has pioneered the development of cost-effective controlled release fertilizer products for use in broad acre crop applications, and this transaction is expected to further support that effort.
		Agrium intends to combine the sales and earnings from the PTI acquisition with those of its other specialty fertilizer products into a new business segment.
		Agrium Inc. is a leading global producer and marketer of agricultural nutrients and industrial products and a major retail supplier of agricultural products and services in both North and South America.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/543983/agrium_expands_controlled_release_business_through_pursell_acquisition/index.html?source=r_science (538 words)

	We Smell a Bargain (Agrium, AUP Holdings, Interstate Hotels & Resorts)\| SmartMoney.com
		Agrium (AGU) — A retailer of agricultural products and services in both United States and Argentina and a global producer and wholesale marketer of nutrients for agricultural and industrial markets.
		The fertilizer nitrogen Agrium produces is chemically identical to the nitrogen derived from animal manure.
		Agrium makes our list with a trailing 12-month P/E ratio of 13, lower than the 16 P/E held by UAP Holding (UAPH), the only publicly traded pure-play in the retail fertilizer business.
	www.smartmoney.com /stockscreen/index.cfm?story=20060509intro (1069 words)

	SUPERGENE PHOSPHATE ENRICHMENT IN CARBONATITE-DERIVED ELUVIAL SEDIMENTS: AGRIUM PHOSPHATE MINE, KAPUSKASING, ONTARIO, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mineralogical and lithogeochemical study of ores in the Agrium phosphate deposit indicates that they are sediments that developed through extremely efficient weathering of a Proterozoic carbonatite.
		Enrichment processes that concentrated apatite from the carbonatite protolith consisted of: (1) dissolution and removal of most primary gangue minerals such as carbonates and silicates; (2) gravitational sorting of primary apatite, the main ore mineral; and (3) replacement and overgrowth of relict minerals with secondary phosphates.
		Primary apatite, the dominant phosphate mineral in all unconsolidated Agrium ores, occurs mostly as individual ovoid grains.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_45198.htm (382 words)

	Agrium will further its retail fertilizer business, CEO tells shareholders \| Markets \| Headline News \| Canadian ...
		Agrium chief executive Mike Wilson assured shareholders at their annual meeting on Tuesday that the company hadn't overpaid for Royster-Clark, which had rejected its Canadian suitor's initial bid, worth about $535 million, in November.
		However, Agrium has forecast it will have earnings of $1.02 to $1.12 US for the second quarter, with Royster-Clark expected to be a key contributor to earnings in the quarter.
		Agrium will also continue to diversify its wholesale business, where it is already the leading supplier nitrogen and a major supplier of potash and phosphate - the major ingredients of fertilizer.
	www.canadianbusiness.com /markets/headline_news/article.jsp?content=b050975A (455 words)

	Autodesk - Agrium KNO Increases Efficiency with DWF (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A global leader in the fertilizer market, Agrium KNO has increased the accessibility of business-critical operational information by using the Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer.
		Agrium is one of the world’s leading producers and marketers of agricultural nutrients and industrial products and a major retail supplier of agricultural products and services.
		By using Autodesk’s industry leading DWF™, Agrium KNO significantly enhanced the availability of important operational data, providing more than 230 employees with the critical information they need to carry out their jobs more effectively.
	usa.autodesk.com /adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=5782591 (198 words)

	Agrium
		Agrium produces and markets three primary groups of nutrients: nitrogen, phosphate and potash as well as controlled release fertilizers and micronutrients.
		Agrium Inc. (TSX and NYSE: AGU) announced today it intends to redeem the approximately $30-million outstanding principal amount of its 6.86 percent Senior Notes due December 29, 2007 and the approximately $71-million outstanding principal amount...
		Calgary, Alberta -- The Board of Directors of Agrium Inc. (TSX and NYSE: AGU) has declared a dividend of five and one half cents U.S. per common share to be paid on July 6, 2006 to shareholders of record on June 15, 2006...
	www.agrium.com (368 words)

	Agrium Annual Report 2004 - Yielding results for employees (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Our survey response rate of 85 percent is a key indicator of employee engagement and commitment to the company.
		According to the survey, an overwhelming number of employees are proud to work for Agrium, share their pride with others and feel they have a stake in the Company's success.
		This belief and trust in the leadership translates into a workforce that has a high level of commitment and satisfaction and is motivated to meet the challenges of a global company.
	calgwebe.agrium.com /ir2004AnnualReport/sustainability/employees.html (277 words)

	Agrium gets OK to expand
		The board approved the expansion, even though it said that Agrium doesn't fully undertand the source and impact of its flouride emissions.
		During earlier hearings, Agrium had said if it couldn't expand, it would have to close the plant, throwing 1,000 people out of work.
		Agrium says it will continue to reduce its flouride emissions.
	www.fluoridealert.org /pollution/1996.html (324 words)

	Residents fight Agrium expansion; want controls
		But some nearby residents say their lives may be at stake because the plant, near Redwater, leaks fluoride and low-level radiation.
		Agrium made its case for the $24-million project at the start of a hearing before the Natural Resources Conservation Board on Monday.
		He said 260 staff and permanent contractors depend on the project, and several hundred spinoff jobs are at stake.
	www.fluoridealert.org /pollution/1822.html (452 words)

	Merck Adding 800 R&D Jobs in SE Pennsylvania - Site Selection Online
		Agrium’s expansion will add 300 acres (120 hectares) to the gypsum pile area — in the process saving 400 jobs that would’ve disappeared if the expansion hadn’t been approved.
		In addition, some neighboring residents said that the proximity of Agrium’s plant was severely reducing their property values.
		Agrium responded by pointing out that the new gypsum cooling ponds would actually be farther away from nearby residents’ homes than the existing ponds.
	www.conway.com /ssinsider/pwatch/pw040816.htm (2485 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Canada (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agrium, which has sought to reduce its dependency on potash and nitrogen for sales, gets about 250 Royster-Clark retail farm centers in the U.S. Midwest and southeast and 70 fertilizer storage sites.
		Agrium shares rose 37 cents, or 1.4 percent, to C$27.87 by the 4 p.m.
		Agrium reported Feb. 2 that fourth-quarter net income fell 45 percent to $54 million, or 40 cents a share, on costs for natural gas and gains in the Canadian dollar against the U.S. currency.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a2MpqpxnL_Eg&refer=canada (388 words)

	Unocal, Agrium file suits over Nikiski fertilizer plant gas sale agreement - 07/12/2002
		Unocal Corp. and Agrium Inc. have been unable to negotiate a resolution to a dispute about their gas sales agreement for Agrium’s fertilizer plant in Nikiski.
		Agrium said in its 2001 annual report it withheld payment from Unocal because the liability has been set off against other amounts currently owing by Unocal, and because Agrium disputes the calculation of the earn-out due to differences over the application of a reference price adjustment factor.
		Agrium said no payment is due to Unocal in the event that Unocal cannot meet its obligation to deliver gas under the Kenai gas contract.
	www.petroleumnews.com /newsbulletin/674576337.html (488 words)

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