Feb 28, 2019 / 05:45PM GMT
Steve Byrne - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division - Director of Equity Research
My name is Steve Byrne. I cover U.S. chemicals for BAML. Up here with me, Dennis Kelleher, he's the Senior Vice President and CFO. Dennis has been with the company for almost a decade. He previously had strategy and financial roles at BP and Amoco.
Also up here with me is Bert Frost. Bert is also a Senior Vice President at CF, been there a little over a decade, he responsibilities for sales, market development and supply chain. So welcome to you both.
Questions and Answers:
Steve Byrne - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division - Director of Equity ResearchSo I think where I'd like to start off is the nitrogen outlook in the U.S. market. And I'd like your view, Bert, on what are the dynamics going on right now with respect to where is the product sitting in the supply chain, is it at the producer level, is it at the distributor level? How much of it is still waiting for growers to step in and start to place orders? The reason I ask is we did a survey of ag retailers