# Farming News - Fertiliser Market Report: Stock shortage sparks price rise

> Global urea prices rose steeply this week on a short-term shortage of world urea stocks, with trades done $15/t higher than the previous week. Ammonium nitrate prices in the UK were unchanged but are expected to rise into autumn as they catch up with European levels.

- Date: 2017-08-11 · published 2017-08-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Global · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/69748-farming-news-fertiliser-market-report-stock-shortage-sparks-price-rise
- Commodities: [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md)

## Why it matters

Tight urea supply and covering of short positions by major trading houses point to higher nitrogen input costs for feed grain producers in the near term.

## Read by commodity

- UREA: bullish ▲

## Sources

- farming.co.uk: https://www.farming.co.uk/news/fertiliser-market-report%3A-stock-shortage-sparks-price-rise

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