# Slumping fertilizer producers gear up to fill truck demand

> Nitrogen producers such as CF Industries and Agrium are expanding diesel exhaust fluid output, a urea-based product, as tighter diesel emissions standards in the US and Europe raise demand. DEF sells at premiums of $50 to $100 per short ton over fertilizer prices.

- Date: 2017-08-24 · published 2017-08-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/69751-slumping-fertilizer-producers-gear-up-to-fill-truck-demand
- Commodities: [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md)

## Why it matters

Diversion of urea into higher-value DEF could absorb supply and support urea prices, a modest bullish factor for nitrogen costs facing feed producers.

## Read by commodity

- UREA: bullish ▲

## Sources

- hydrocarbonprocessing.com: https://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2017/08/slumping-fertilizer-producers-gear-up-to-fill-truck-demand/

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