# Farmers ask US Justice Department to investigate fertilizer price spikes | Reuters

> US farmers have asked the Justice Department to investigate fertiliser price spikes. Global fertiliser prices have reached record highs this year, driven by soaring natural gas costs and severe US storms that disrupted production.

- Date: 2021-12-08 · published 2021-12-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/43923-farmers-ask-us-justice-department-to-investigate-fertilizer-price-spikes-reuters
- Commodities: [Natural Gas](https://feedsoft.ai/c/NATGAS.md), [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md)

## Why it matters

Record fertiliser prices from gas costs and supply disruptions raise crop production costs, a pressure that tends to persist into the next planting season.

## Read by commodity

- UREA: bullish ▲
- NATGAS: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NATGAS | 2022-07-27 | [Fertilizer market volatility raises pricing questions \| Farmtario](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5034-fertilizer-market-volatility-raises-pricing-questions-farmtario.md) | -14.8% | +2.6% |
| NATGAS | 2024-04-24 | [Global fertiliser prices set to drop but gas risks cause concern \| Farm Online \| ACT](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5022-global-fertiliser-prices-set-to-drop-but-gas-risks-cause-concern-farm-online-act.md) | +7.7% | +52.8% |
| NATGAS | 2018-03-28 | [Gas Price Hike: India Hikes Natural Gas Price To Its Highest In Two Years](https://feedsoft.ai/events/66181-gas-price-hike-india-hikes-natural-gas-price-to-its-highest-in-two-years.md) | +4.5% | +5.8% |
| NATGAS | 2022-07-26 | [No fertiliser crisis despite 2 plants’ closure \| The Daily Star](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5037-no-fertiliser-crisis-despite-2-plants-closure-the-daily-star.md) | -4.4% | +13.2% |
| NATGAS | 2026-10-29 | [EC holds to Russian gas ban as prices soar \| S&P Global](https://feedsoft.ai/events/2159-ec-holds-to-russian-gas-ban-as-prices-soar-s-and-p-global.md) | -1.8% | — |
| UREA | 2021-10-20 | [Rice Prices Set to Rise as Fertilizer Rally Drives Up Farm Costs - Caixin Global](https://feedsoft.ai/events/44642-rice-prices-set-to-rise-as-fertilizer-rally-drives-up-farm-costs-caixin-global.md) | -2.0% | +9.0% |
| UREA | 2025-05-01 | [Fertilizer Squeeze Pinches Farmers as India Caps Prices, Supplies Shrink](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25002-fertilizer-squeeze-pinches-farmers-as-india-caps-prices-supplies-shrink.md) | +15.9% | +6.3% |
| UREA | 2026-04-08 | [India raises fertiliser subsidy as US-Iran war lifts global prices \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/9774-india-raises-fertiliser-subsidy-as-us-iran-war-lifts-global-prices-reuters.md) | +1.6% | -12.0% |

## Sources

- reuters.com: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/farmers-ask-us-justice-department-investigate-fertilizer-price-spikes-2021-12-08/

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