The Mosaic Co.’s plan to cut some 150,000 mt per month of phosphate production, will come initially from the company’s Bartow, Fla., plant, the company confirmed with Green Markets Dec. 20. The company explained that Bartow was due a maintenance turnaround and this will be done in January. After this is completed, the situation will be determined on a month-by-month basis depending on market conditions.
An initial report in the Lakeland Ledger, termed the situation at Bartow as a shutdown. Instead, Mosaic says the plant will be down for maintenance with no furloughs for the some 360 employees.