Media Coverage: ABC News - Resources company has cattle industry in its sights, with plan for outback mine and MCP plant

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Russell Cooke has been running a stock feed manufacturing business in Australia's remote Kimberley region since 2014 and says he's never been busier.  

"The wet season really failed in parts [of northern Australia], so we've been getting a lot of early orders and extra customers for supplements to help keep weight on cattle for as long as possible," he said.

Mr Cooke makes cattle supplements and feeds using a range of ingredients, which sometimes can be sourced from his home state of Western Australia, such as maize from the Ord Irrigation Scheme, canola meal from Perth, and salt from Port Hedland.

But when it comes to the key ingredient of phosphorus, Mr Cooke needs to look overseas.

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Media Coverage: Proactive Investors - Chatham Rock Phosphate aims to become a global phosphate exporter

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Chatham Rock Phosphate’s Colin Randall speaks with Proactive’s Elisha Newell about the company’s objectives in the phosphate market, including its global export ambitions. Randall speaks about the company’s rare earths and phosphate projects in Australia, New Zealand and French Polynesia and how it is looking to maximise the value of its phosphate resource for New Zealand, while turning Australia into a major phosphate export hub that can assist with food security. The company is currently listed in New Zealand but is considering listing on the AIM and ASX. Finally, Chatham’s CEO outlines the company’s four- and five-year work and export plans.

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Industry Article: ABC News - All eyes on north-west Queensland's Georgina Basin to ease global fertiliser shortages

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An international shortage of fertiliser is crippling crop farmers around the world.

As one of the biggest exporters of phosphate fertiliser, Russia has caused major disruptions to the global supply chain with its invasion of the Ukraine.

The impact is being felt globally. In Brazil, the coffee industry is facing a mounting crisis as shortages of its Russian-sourced fertiliser stifle harvests.

Overall, coffee production is expected to fall by more than 15 per cent this year.

As countries become desperate to establish less volatile trade relations, Australian miners say "the time is now" for the country to begin exporting its rich phosphate resources.

They say the north-west Queensland region of the Georgina Basin is a phosphate honey pot waiting to be tapped.

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