Greetings, and welcome to CVR Partners LP Third Quarter 2019 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Mr. Jay Finks, Vice President of Finance and Treasurer. Thank you, you may begin.

Thank you, Mitchell. Good morning, everyone. We appreciate your participation in today's call. With me today are Mark Pytosh, our Chief Executive Officer; Tracy Jackson, our Chief Financial Officer; and other members of management. Prior to discussing our 2019 third quarter results, let me remind you that this conference call may contain forward-looking statements as that term is defined under federal securities laws. For this purpose, any statements made during this call that are not statements of historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, the words outlook, believes, anticipates, plans, expects and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. You are cautioned that these statements may be affected by important factors set forth in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in our latest earnings release. As a result, actual operations or results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by law. This call also includes various non-GAAP financial measures. The disclosures related to such non-GAAP measures including reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in our 2019 third quarter earnings release that we filed with the SEC yesterday after the close of the market. With that said, I'll turn the call over to Mark Pytosh, our Chief Executive Officer. Mark?

Thank you, Jay. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining today's call. The summarized financial highlights for our third quarter of 2019 included net sales of $89 million, a net income of $23 million, adjusted EBITDA of $18 million, and the Board of Directors declared a third quarter distribution of $0.07 per common unit, which will be paid on November 12 to unit holders of record at the close of the market on November 4. During the third quarter of 2019, we had strong utilization at both facilities and began a plan turnaround at East Dubuque which was completed in mid-October and Coffeyville of the ammonia plant operated at 98% utilization for the quarter above the third quarter of 2018 at 94%. At East Dubuque ammonia plan also operated at 98% utilization leading up to the turnaround comparing the utilization of 100% the prior year period. For the third quarter of 2019, our combined operations produced approximately 196,000 gross tons of ammonia, 318,000 tons of UAN and 56,000 net tons of ammonia available for sale compared to production of 212,000 of gross tons of ammonia, 338,000 tons of UAN and 63,000 net tons of ammonia available for sale the prior year period. We sold approximately 340,000 tons of UAN during the third quarter of 2019, an average price of $182 per ton. UAN pricing for the quarter increased 7% over the prior year period in addition we sold approximately 33,000 tons of ammonia during the third quarter of 2019 at an average price of $337 per ton. Ammonia pricing for the quarter increased 13% over the prior year period. While our UAN sales increased by 10% over the prior year quarter and we benefited from higher fertilizer and lower natural gas prices, increases in direct operating expenses and [Pepco] pricing drove the slight decline in our EBITDA year-over-year. We continue to expect a favorable spring 2020 planting season compared to 2019 which I will discuss further in my closing remarks. I will now turn the call over to Tracy to discuss our financial results.

Thank you, Mark. Turning to our results for the third quarter of 2019, we reported net sales for the period of $89 million and an operating loss of $8 million compared to net sales of $80 million and operating income of $3 million in the third quarter of 2018. Net losses for the third quarter of 2019 were $23 million or $0.20 per common unit and adjusted EBITDA was $18 million. This compares to a net loss $13 million or $0.12 per common unit and adjusted EBITDA of $19 million for the prior year period. The slight decrease in adjusted EBITDA was driven predominantly by higher operating costs and higher Pepco prices. Direct operating expenses for the third quarter of 2019 increased $48 million from $35 million in the prior year period. Excluding inventory impacts direct operating expenses increased by approximately $8 million year-over-year primarily related to turnaround expenses. Turning to capital, during the third quarter of 2019, we spent $7 million on capital projects which was primarily maintenance capital. We continue to estimate total capital spending for 2019 to be approximately $20 million to $25 million excluding turnaround spending. Turnaround expenses for the year are expected to be approximately $9 million. Looking at the balance sheet, as of September 30, we had approximately $106 million of liquidity which was comprised of $84 million in cash availability under the ABL facility of $48 million less $25 million in cash included in our borrowing base. Within our cash balance of $84 million, we had approximately $16 million related to customer pre-payments for the future delivery of product. Our long-term gross debt and finance lease obligations of $647 million including current portion remains unchanged. Available cash for distribution of $8 million is derived from our positive adjusted EBITDA for the quarter after consideration of reserves of $15 million for debt service and $13 million for maintenance capital expenditures and turnaround expenses. In addition, we released $18 million of cash reserved in prior quarters for maintenance turnaround and other operating needs. We are a variable distribution MLP. We will review our previously established reserves, evaluate future anticipated cash needs and may reserve amounts for other future cash needs as determined by our general partners’ board. As a result our distributions if any will vary from quarter-to-quarter due to several factors including but not limited to operating performance fluctuation than the prices received for finished products, capital expenditures and cash reserves deemed necessary or appropriate by the Board of Directors of our General Partner. Looking ahead, we estimate our ammonia utilization rate for the fourth quarter of 2019 to be between 95% and 100% excluding the impact plan turnaround. We expect direct operating expenses to be approximately $40 million to $45 million excluding inventory and turnaround impacts and total capital spending to be between $8 million and $10 million. With that I turn the call back over to Mark.

Thanks Tracey. We completed our turnaround at East Dubuque last week which took a few days longer than we expect due to completing more repairs on the reformer piping and vessels. We also spent $2.7 million more than planned primarily to further improve long-term reliability as we made a number of improvements to the primary and secondary reformers. As I mentioned on the last call for the next several turnarounds at both of our plants we will targeting projects that are intended to improve our reliability and debottleneck in incremental ways to gain added production for low capital investment. While our plans have been strong performance in the past several years, we continually look for ways to further improve operations and reliability. Customers purchase UAN for the summer fill and ammonia prepay for full application in early August as the timing of the normal fertilizer purchasing cycle has been a little later than normal. Consistent with the past 18 months, customers have been buying fertilizer more readily and the expectation that harvests will be later than normal is led customers to stage their bike. Weather is going to dictate the timing of harvest and the available window for ammonia application. There continues to be a lot of speculation about the yield numbers for corn and soybeans and the USDA numbers have been more aggressive than most analysts believe. The existing corn and soybean inventory levels have been lower than expected. Early cold weather has caused crop prices to rise to their highest levels in the past couple months. These prices hold up to the rest of the fall spring 2020 planted acres should be favorable compared to 2019. Fertilizer inventories are comfortable levels for distributors and retailers for this time of year, but depending on the amount of fall ammonia application there should be another way of a purchasing to fulfill nitrogen needs. At CBR we have a good order book for UAN at both of our plants and we'll continue to participate in the market when liquidity is available. It is due because of our turnaround we have sold most of our existing UAN production for the rest of the year and we'll look to participate in the rest of the fall purchasing program for ammonia as application accelerates. I want to reiterate that the partnership will continue to focus on maximizing free cash flow by safely operating our plants reliably and at high utilization rates, prudently managing our costs, being judicious with our capital but selectively investing in reliability projects and incremental additions to production capacity and maximizing our marketing and logistics activities. In closing, I would like to thank all the employees for their contributions in the third quarter to drive continued high utilization of both facilities and safely completing the planned turnaround at East Dubuque. With that we're ready to open the call for questions.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Adam Samuelson with Goldman Sachs. Please proceed with your question.

Yes. Thanks. Good morning everyone.

Morning, Adam.

First Mark, I would love to get just a little bit more color on the cadence, on sell cadence through the back half of the year and specifically in the quarter how much of your three quarter sales do you think actually went to ground that probably more spring-like pricing versus kind of the fall reset? Just want to just calibrate a little bit just how much the late summer might have helped you in the third quarter?

Actually I don't think it really helped a lot this quarter. July was pretty light because there wasn't a lot going on the ground at the end of the season. So I don't think we got a lot of left down in there. I think the pricing that you see in the quarter was largely the fill, for UAN was largely the fill pricing and the ammonia pricing was the summer fill and prepay. So I don't think there was a lot of carryover from our book. Our book it was pretty low at the end of June and even though the season went longer we didn't see a great deal of flow out of our book in July. So that price is kind of what we took in the quarter.

So in that sense then you're the visiting with selling pricing for the fourth quarter. Third quarter as a good decent gauge of where you might check out just usually you sell a lot of your second half volumes through the summer fill right?

Yes. But usually for UAN, this is UAN I am talking about. The quarter price is pretty reflective of what the second half price that's the fill, kind of fill levels and there's such a gradable buying but it's been kind of around those numbers. So I think it's consistent that, that's a consistent second half like it is normally for us.

That's helpful. And then, as you look at just the bonds, can you talk about decision maybe not to go and tender and look for refinancing or just how you're looking at that today? It just seemed like a pretty attractive refinancing opportunities where rates are and just how you're approaching that?

We will continue to evaluate it. At the time that we were looking at it we just felt like the payback period was not sufficiently short enough for us to move forward and the certainty around the rate that we would be able to take out of the market wasn't as strong as we wanted it to believe and we decided to look at it again next year when the call premium comes down again.

And then, just as you think about kind of just inventories, I mean, there's a lot of questions about the ultimate planted acreage this year coming out of the spring, Mark do you think inventories in the channel we're really depleted for both UAN and ammonia or do you think that there was some carryover product or more than average or do you think people can't find manage to come out of the spring empty?

I would say it was geographic. There were pockets where it was empty and there were some pockets where people were still carrying some products. I say generally the market cut I mean they emptied out pretty well at the end of the season which that's why the fill was later this year than we've seen in prior years. So I think the system was in pretty good shape, but there were pockets that carried over from the spring where there were still some inventory out there. We didn't really see that in our markets, some markets where we don't really participate we had been hearing from customers that there was inventory out there. So I think the inventory situation right now is very comfortable in the marketplace. It's not heavy. It's not light. I think it's comfortable. There is a need I think horizon to buy some more which is typical for this time of year. So I think we're in a pretty good spot. I would just tell you that surprisingly the last week the weather has been helping us generally the industry. It's been a little dryer, a little colder and harvest has picked up momentum and we're starting to see pockets of ammonia application already which is early. This is not kind of what I think that most people thought the scenario would be, but we're seeing the harvest not everywhere but in pockets getting done and clearing the fields and then they're coming in right behind with ammonia because it's been cold enough to lower the soil temperature. So we're seeing pockets and early ammonia application which I think goes well for the rest of the fall.

Alright, super helpful color. I'll pass it on. Thanks.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Charles Neivert with Cowen. Please proceed with your question.

Morning guys. One question. I guess when you look at typical fall applications, I mean, it looks like you guys may have held back some of the ammonia to be available for the fall or -- sorry. For fall to be applied in the fall application, so if you get like you said you got a little bit ahead of the game right now and if assuming things stay as they are, is it possible you'll run through that inventory and sort of come into January pretty clean? And also is there any, in looking at production for this quarter are you guys going to be sort of producing a little less UAN or consuming a little less ammonia I think is a better way to put it, consuming a little less ammonia through UAN and then putting that down as well or getting that ready for application. So I mean again this the balance of production for the quarter?

Well, let me start with the last end of that question and I will move my way back up to the front. I think we're going to right now and this could change depending on what the market tells we don't, we've got a little ways to go to see how all the ammonia application. I think we are in pretty good shape with our ammonia prepaid bulk in the inventory that we're carrying now and we're just going to look and see what kind of windows we get. This is really around East Dubuque. The window that we get for ammonia application there we probably run our normal production slate there we've got good demand for UAN and ammonia and really just waiting to see around the plant where we normally deliver a product, what the harvest is going to be and when that application occurs, we can always dial back to UAN if we have a good long run we can always dial that back and make some more ammonia deliver it. So that's really we have the flexibility there to pull back in the plant. Right now we're just going to run a full slate normal slate because we have again we have drawl on the plant for both ammonia and UAN. What I would tell you is if you remember last year in the fall we, it just stayed wet all the way through November and we never got windows and this year at least in the front end of it we're seeing drier weather than we saw last year and so harvest has been able to progress around East Dubuque and we're seeing the crops coming out in the field which bodes well we're going to get the soil temperature the right spot but it bodes better this year so far because we had a wet October last year. We haven't had that wet October this year. So we feel like, we could maybe get a full run out of ammonia application this year.

Wouldn't in that case would put you guys through basically between the prepay you've got and again a full run you would basically bring the inventory down a lot lower on the ammonia side again pretty close, you had a lot of excess?

Yes. That's I mean, I think our goal would be to come into the year with pretty low inventory number and kind of get ready for the spring and that's going to be more weather dependent. Last year we didn't get it. This year we're starting off on much better footing than we did last October.

Got it, thanks very much.

Thank you.

Thank you. We have reached the end of our question-and-answer session. I'd like to turn the call back over to management for any closing remarks.

Well, I just want to thank everyone again for joining the call today and we look forward to sharing with you our fourth quarter results coming up after the New Year. Thank you.

Thank you. This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation and have a wonderful day.