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Latest · Issue 12 · 2026-10-05
A $675 Urea Prepay Costs $25.50 a Ton in Interest by April. The Gulf Curve Charges the Same $25.50 From October to March. Locking Wins Only if April Retail Tops $700.
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Issue 12 · 2026-10-05
A $675 Urea Prepay Costs $25.50 a Ton in Interest by April. The Gulf Curve Charges the Same $25.50 From October to March. Locking Wins Only if April Retail Tops $700.
Issue 11 · 2026-09-28
Polymer-Coated Urea Needs Six Bushels to Pay This Fall. The Trials Find Them on Claypan and Sand, and Roughly One Year in Four Anywhere Else.
Issue 10 · 2026-09-21
UAN32 and Urea Cost $0.714 and $0.715 a Pound of Nitrogen. UAN32 Has Not Left a $10 Band in Nine Surveys, While World Urea Rose 12% in a Month.
Issue 09 · 2026-09-14
Anhydrous's Discount to Urea Shrank by About a Third in a Year. Record Diesel Took Less Than a Dollar an Acre of It.
Issue 08 · 2026-09-07
The Biggest US Phosphate Producer Is Cutting 206 Jobs Over a Sulfur Contract
Issue 07 · 2026-08-31
UAN28 Fell 7% and Is Still the Most Expensive Nitrogen on the Board
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