# US Dopers - how do you feel about Trump's threats to Canada?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Tags:** trump
**Created:** [January 24, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348 "2025-01-24T18:19:17Z")
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### Author: ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/203 "2025-02-03T20:00:38Z")

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> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> I just spotted an interesting statistic - "The U.S. relies on imports for over 95% of its potash fertilizer needs, with nearly 90% of that coming from Canada, according to data from the USDA.

Related FQ thread.

> [@What the hell is "Potash?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-potash/1013436):
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> Inspired by this quote from the “Retaliatory Tariffs” thread in Politics and Elections: I’d read about potash in my geography textbooks in fifth grade, but I never got a clear idea of what it IS. I guess about fifty years or so ago, I decided that it was a fancy jargonalicious name for potassium. Please, can someone save me a trip to Wikipedia? I don’t have much appetite for another round of “WIKIPEDIA IS NOT FOR SALE” pledge requests. Not today. TIA ETA: Do a good job with this, and next we…

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