# Factors Driving Wholesale Potash Price Increases

> Wholesale potash prices kept climbing in June after sanctions against Belarus, which Fertecon estimates supplies up to 20% of world potash output, disrupted trade flows. Ammonia prices also rose amid limited summer fill activity and multiple nitrogen plant turnarounds in the US. Fall prepay offers followed in July.

- Date: 2021-07-15 · published 2021-07-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: geopolitics · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/45995-factors-driving-wholesale-potash-price-increases
- Commodities: [Potash (KCl)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/POTASH.md), [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md)

## Why it matters

Sanctions-driven potash shortages and nitrogen plant outages keep US fertilizer costs high, which squeezes farm margins and supports fertilizer-linked prices for crops.

## Read by commodity

- UREA: bullish ▲
- POTASH: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UREA | 2026-10-11 | [Brazil's potash prices fall while urea climbs on Middle East tensions \| Agro News Today](https://feedsoft.ai/events/700-brazil-s-potash-prices-fall-while-urea-climbs-on-middle-east-tensions-agro-news.md) | +2.6% | — |
| UREA | 2022-03-24 | [Fitch Ratings Increases Short and Medium-Term Fertiliser Price Assumptions - Proshare](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5508-fitch-ratings-increases-short-and-medium-term-fertiliser-price-assumptions.md) | +0.4% | -0.7% |
| UREA | 2022-04-06 | [A fertilizer shortage, worsened by war in Ukraine, is driving up global food prices and scarcity](https://feedsoft.ai/events/42132-a-fertilizer-shortage-worsened-by-war-in-ukraine-is-driving-up-global-food.md) | -3.9% | -24.2% |
| UREA | 2022-03-15 | [Russia-Ukraine War Drives World Wholesale Fertilizer Prices Higher - Supply Chain Council of European Union \| Scceu.org](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5511-russia-ukraine-war-drives-world-wholesale-fertilizer-prices-higher-supply-chain.md) | -1.6% | -0.2% |
| UREA | 2022-05-31 | [Why fertiliser prices are soaring](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41723-why-fertiliser-prices-are-soaring.md) | -8.8% | -13.2% |

## Sources

- dtnpf.com: https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/Ag/news/crops/article/2021/07/15/sanctions-levied-belarus-drive-price

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