Trump Says America Needs Nothing From Canada. He Forgot Who Grows Its Food.

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In March last year, Trump put a 25% tariff on Canada. Within days, on one specific Canadian product, he quietly cut it to 10%. Then, even more quietly, he dropped it to zero. This is a man who says America needs nothing from Canada. But there's one dull, pinkish rock — dug from one Canadian province — that he's backed down from every single time. Because without it, American farms don't grow food. Not less food. Food, period. That rock is potash. It's potassium fertilizer, one of the three nutrients every major crop on earth needs (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium). Miss one and yields don't dip — they collapse. And the largest, richest deposit on the planet sits under Saskatchewan: ~1/3 of global supply, the world's biggest reserves, the remnants of an ancient sea. Here's the number that turns a boring mineral into a weapon: the US imports 85–90% of its potash from Canada. It mines barely 400,000 tonnes itself and needs ~12 million. And there's no easy substitute — after Canada, the

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