# Navigating the Nitrogen Fertilizer Supply Challenges to Sustain Crop Production in 2025 | CropWatch | Nebraska

> Nebraska corn producers face a tightening urea ammonium nitrate and urea supply as they prepare for side-dress nitrogen applications. StoneX's Josh Linville attributes the shortage to a dry fall that extended the application window, boosting early spring demand, plus unexpected nitrogen plant shutdowns and reduced imports.

- Date: 2025-05-08 · published 2025-05-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/6758-navigating-the-nitrogen-fertilizer-supply-challenges-to-sustain-crop-production
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Constrained nitrogen supply and rising urea prices raise fertilizer costs for corn growers, which can shift acreage economics and feed grain input costs over the season.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2019-06-27 | [Grain Journal \| 2019 Flooding Challenges Grain Transportation](https://feedsoft.ai/events/58496-grain-journal-2019-flooding-challenges-grain-transportation.md) | -2.5% | -4.4% |
| CORN | 2022-04-04 | [Fertilizer Logistics May Be Challenging \| Red River Farm Network](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16722-fertilizer-logistics-may-be-challenging-red-river-farm-network.md) | +5.4% | -0.7% |
| CORN | 2020-04-07 | [Transportation bottlenecks snarl inputs to food supply chains \| Supply Chain Dive](https://feedsoft.ai/events/53536-transportation-bottlenecks-snarl-inputs-to-food-supply-chains-supply-chain-dive.md) | -4.0% | -6.5% |
| CORN | 2019-04-25 | [Floods stall fertilizer shipments in latest blow to U.S. farmers](https://feedsoft.ai/events/59484-floods-stall-fertilizer-shipments-in-latest-blow-to-u-s-farmers.md) | +0.4% | +6.2% |
| CORN | 2022-06-20 | [The Ukrainian supply chain issue will remain the main upside risk to food inflation in the coming months even with significant increase in shipments from Danube ports](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40848-the-ukrainian-supply-chain-issue-will-remain-the-main-upside-risk-to-food.md) | -3.7% | -11.8% |

## Sources

- cropwatch.unl.edu: https://cropwatch.unl.edu/navigating-nitrogen-fertilizer-supply-challenges-sustain-crop-production-2025/

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