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S8 Ep750: Preview for Later Today Simon Constable examines the surging price of urea fertilizer, which has climbed twenty percent in a month. This spike, caused by shipping blockades, forces farmers to shift to planting more soybean crops.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Preview for Later Today
Simon Constable examines the surging price of urea fertilizer, which has climbed twenty percent in a month. This spike, caused by shipping blockades, forces farmers to shift to planting more soybean crops.

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0:30.6

This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Simon Constable.

0:34.9

He's in the south of France watching commodities, especially fertilizer.

0:39.5

Another one of the critical components of a healthy earth that is not coming out of the

0:44.9

Persian Gulf because of the Straits of Hormuz blockade. Fertilizer is for the corn crop. If you don't

0:52.9

have enough fertilizer, you plant soybean, as I understand it.

0:58.1

And that decision was made over these last weeks.

1:01.6

The rise of fertilizer, in this instance, it would be the area.

1:06.8

The rise of that price mitigated the planting of corn for cowherds for people and therefore more soybean.

1:18.1

Here's Simon gives you the shocking number of the rise of the last month of fertilizer if you can afford it.

1:25.1

More tonight on commodities.

1:27.9

I believe so, yes, but I haven't actually seen any verification of that.

1:32.2

But I would imagine the government is going to want to get in there and make sure the prices don't get too high.

1:38.4

Otherwise, you get some very upset farmers and some very upset workers as well.

1:43.7

So that's good.

1:45.0

We've also got another one here that is related to energy, which is fertilizer.

1:50.3

It's urea, which is used for putting in crop fields.

1:54.4

And that has gone up by 20% in the last month to $719 per metric ton.

2:06.0

That's about a metric ton is about 2200 pounds in American.

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