# Argus Media Launches Price Report For Barge Fertilizer Shipments In New Orleans - The Waterways Journal

> Argus Media launched a weekly price report for urea barge shipments in New Orleans, based on volume-weighted averages of trades within the calendar month. The benchmark is intended to improve transparency for fertilizer futures settlement and industrial contracts.

- Date: 2021-07-12 · published 2021-07-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/46259-argus-media-launches-price-report-for-barge-fertilizer-shipments-in-new-orleans
- Commodities: [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md)

## Why it matters

A more transparent FOB Nola urea price improves the reference for U.S. fertilizer costs, which feed into corn production economics, but it does not itself change supply or prices.

## Read by commodity

- UREA: neutral

## Sources

- waterwaysjournal.net: https://www.waterwaysjournal.net/2021/07/12/argus-media-launches-price-report-for-barge-fertilizer-shipments-in-new-orleans/

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