How to Use potash in a Sentence

potash

noun
  • Where is potash found in Michigan?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The price tags for everything from potash to wheat to soy took off.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 24 May 2022
  • Here's what to know about potash mining in Michigan.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Both have some of the world's richest deposits of potash and phosphate.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • One and three-quarters years later, that potash remains in the ground.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The fluids would dissolve salt and potash, which would be pumped back to the surface.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The process requires separating out the salt from the potash.
    — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Israel and Jordan both mine potash near the Dead Sea.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The same shift can be seen in the potash industry, a major source for fertilizer.
    — Tatsiana Kulakevich, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
  • Soluble potash protects against disease and drought.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 2 May 2026
  • But, those chicken growers import parts for their farm machinery and potash to add to poultry feed.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Much of the potash used by Midwestern farmers comes from Canada.
    — Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Large reserves of high-grade potash are more than a mile and a half underground in north-central Michigan.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • But retrieving Michigan's potash will take a huge amount of groundwater.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Since the start of Russia’s invasion, potash prices have soared by 50 percent.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2022
  • Pearl ash, made by baking potash in a kiln, was used as a leavening agent in breads before the creation of baking powder.
    — Renae Reints, Fortune, 20 June 2018
  • These included plans to develop a massive potash mine that would straddle the border.
    — Martin Plaut, Quartz Africa, 9 July 2019
  • Other fertilizers, like potash and sulfur, have also risen in price.
    — Chloe Taylor,sam Meredith, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026
  • One is the injection well, down which Michigan Potash will send hot water to dissolve potash and salt in place.
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • The early closure of a major potash mine in Canada this year disrupted supplies as well.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2021
  • In the same way, the price of potash flowing smoothly from Canada will rise if there are cutbacks in production elsewhere.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Copper revenues account for about 35% of the total, followed by potash at 21%.
    — Moneyshow, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Yuri Korzun had a job for life at Belaruskali, one of the world’s largest miners of potash fertilizer.
    — WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Mix grains of cobalt, mined in Labrador, with potash, quarried in Saskatchewan, and whisks of beaver tail, all of it steeped over sharp, jagged Yukon ice.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The factory, which accounts for a fifth of the world’s potash fertilizer output, is the nation’s top cash earner.
    — Yuras Karmanau, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The phase-in period was designed to allow companies time to find other sources of potash and end trade with Belaruskali.
    — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
  • That was already half the Russian potash that arrived in Brazil in June 2021.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2022
  • Russia, the world’s largest exporter of fertilisers, accounts for around 20% of the global supplies of potash.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2022
  • If a soil test indicates that your soil is low in potassium, apply at a rate of 1 pound of potash per 1000 square feet of lawn.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The agreement envisions Group1 battery backup systems in use at the potash mine in Evart.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025

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