Fertilizers

Fertilizer and its raw materials are critical commodities within the agriculture and chemicals industries but also, increasingly, within the energy transition. Understanding prices, supply and demand dynamics, trade flows, production costs and emissions footprints is increasingly important in a volatile and bifurcated world.

Ammonia, sulphur, sulphuric acid, phosphate rock and phosphoric acid are raw materials used in the production of fertilizers but are also critical for industrial processes and metal refining. Urea, ammonium nitrate, phosphate fertilizers and potash are all widely traded across the world, with their own unique fundamental influences as well as geopolitical and feedstocks requests.

Fertilizer commodities have a broad set of end markets, including explosives for mining through to batteries and marine fuels. CRU is the trusted partner for fertilizer data and insights across the industry.