Fertilizer cost

Every scenario in which fertilizer cost is a modeled driver — one risk, read across the whole library.

68 scenarios touch this risk, ranked by probability.

43% 0–6 months
What if China extends its phosphate export halt?
mixed
35% 0–6 months
What if strikes shut down Australia's biggest LNG plants?
mixed
33% 1–3 years
What if New urea capacity glut crashes global nitrogen prices?
mixed
30% 0–6 months
What if China phosphate export curb tightens world DAP/MAP supply?
mixed
28% 6–18 months
What if Cheap gas revives Western ammonia output and cuts fertilizer?
mixed
28% 1–3 years
What if North-African urea megaprojects glut the Atlantic basin?
mixed
28% 6–18 months
What if Cheap food and fertilizer ease EM inflation and rate-cut path?
mixed
27% 0–6 months
What if Hormuz gas-feedstock cost-push spikes Middle-East urea?
mixed
27% 6–18 months
What if Belarus-Russia potash sanctions re-squeeze world supply?
risk-off
27% 1–3 years
What if Potash oversupply resumes as Belarus volumes return?
mixed
27% 1–3 years
What if Food-and-fertilizer disinflation anchors EM rate-cut cycle?
mixed
26% 1–3 years
What if Green-ammonia scale-up undercuts grey-nitrogen costs?
mixed
26% 1–3 years
What if Fertilizer glut: cheap gas sinks ammonia, eases food costs?
mixed
25% 6–18 months
What if European gas spike idles ammonia plants and lifts nitrogen?
mixed
24% 0–6 months
What if Canadian Prairie drought cuts spring-wheat and canola yields?
mixed
24% 0–6 months
What if Egypt-Trinidad ammonia outages tighten the nitrogen market?
mixed
24% 6–18 months
What if China urea export ban removes the world's swing supplier?
mixed
24% 6–18 months
What if Potash demand slump on high prices deepens the surplus?
mixed
23% 1–3 years
What if glyphosate-resistant superweeds spread across US farmland?
mixed
23% 6–18 months
What if Russia normalizes fertilizer logistics and exports surge?
risk-on
22% 1–3 years
What if Fertilizer-affordability crunch cuts global yields and stocks?
mixed
22% 1–3 years
What if Phosphate-rock depletion lifts the structural fertilizer cost?
mixed
21% 0–6 months
What if Drought-driven hydro shortfall idles fertilizer and food plants?
mixed
19% 6–18 months
What if sanctions choke off Belarus's potash exports?
risk-off
18% 0–6 months
What if a gas-price spike shuts down ammonia plants?
mixed
18% 1–3 years
What if Russia fertilizer flows normalize, prices ease?
mixed
18% 3–10 years
What if Green-ammonia scale-up lowers global fertilizer costs?
mixed
16% 6–18 months
What if a fertiliser shortage threatened the next planting season?
mixed
15% 1–3 years
What if new IMO methane rules sideline aging LNG carriers?
mixed
14% 6–18 months
What if sanctions on Russian and Belarusian potash spike fertilizer prices and cut crop yields?
risk-off
14% 1–3 years
What if drought-hit yields collide with constrained fertilizer supply, entrenching food inflation?
mixed
13% 0–6 months
What if a fire knocks out Qatar's LNG export trains?
mixed
13% 6–18 months
What if a European gas price spike forces ammonia plants to shut down again?
mixed
13% 6–18 months
What if a cold winter re-spikes European gas and reignites energy and fertilizer inflation?
mixed
13% 6–18 months
What if Russia weaponizes fertilizer and potash exports?
risk-off
13% 6–18 months
What if European industry curtails as TTF spike makes ammonia uneconomic?
risk-off
12% 0–6 months
What if a second blast idles the Freeport LNG terminal?
mixed
11% 6–18 months
What if Russia restricts grain and fertilizer exports as geopolitical leverage?
risk-off
11% 1–3 years
What if China extends phosphate fertilizer export restrictions and tightens global supply?
mixed
11% 1–3 years
What if a combined fertilizer price surge makes inputs unaffordable for smallholder farmers?
mixed
11% 6–18 months
What if persistently high European gas keeps ammonia offline and embeds food inflation?
mixed
11% 6–18 months
What if a major LNG facility outage tightens global gas and spikes European and Asian prices?
mixed
11% 6–18 months
What if grain, edible-oil and fertilizer shocks drive the FAO Food Price Index back toward 2022 records?
mixed
11% 6–18 months
What if Russia restricts nitrogen, potash and phosphate exports as geopolitical leverage?
risk-off
10% 0–6 months
What if an explosion cripples the Sabine Pass LNG terminal?
mixed
10% 6–18 months
What if drought and high input costs push euro-area food inflation back into double digits?
mixed
10% 6–18 months
What if a simultaneous fertilizer and grain price spike compounds food inflation through both channels?
risk-off
10% 1–3 years
What if carbon pricing makes European ammonia production uneconomic and shifts nitrogen supply to imports?
mixed
10% 6–18 months
What if a gas-price spike simultaneously raises power, fertilizer and industrial costs?
mixed
10% 1–3 years
What if phosphate-rock concentration and depletion raise long-run fertilizer costs?
risk-off
10% 1–3 years
What if global gas re-fragments into rival pipeline and LNG blocs and raises price volatility?
risk-off
10% 6–18 months
What if Europe fails to refill gas storage and prices spike ahead of winter?
mixed
10% 1–3 years
What if restrictions on nitrogen and potash exports spike fertilizer prices and trigger a global food-inflation shock?
risk-off
9% 3–10 years
What if a pollinator collapse slashes fruit, nut and oilseed crops?
mixed
9% 6–18 months
What if sustained high energy prices force permanent closures of European smelters and chemical plants?
risk-off
9% 6–18 months
What if high gas prices shutter European fertiliser production and feed food inflation?
mixed
9% 6–18 months
What if a gas and oil price spike drives ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer costs sharply higher?
mixed
9% 1–3 years
What if two seasons of curtailed fertilizer use lower cereal yields and reignite food inflation?
mixed
9% 1–3 years
What if a combined food and fertilizer price surge drives the global import bill to a record?
mixed
9% 6–18 months
What if LNG export ramp and AI data-centre demand spike US natural gas prices?
mixed
9% 6–18 months
What if simultaneous vegetable-oil and fertilizer price spikes compound EM food inflation?
risk-off
9% 6–18 months
What if pipeline sabotage on the scale of Nord Stream removes supply and spikes European gas?
risk-off
9% 6–18 months
What if a flood or strike at a major potash mine tightens global supply and spikes fertilizer prices?
risk-off
9% 6–18 months
What if a Russian fertilizer-export curb and a Ukrainian grain-corridor collapse hit simultaneously?
risk-off
9% 6–18 months
What if nitrogen, potash and phosphate supplies tighten at the same time?
risk-off
8% 0–6 months
What if Washington pauses new US LNG exports?
mixed
8% 3–10 years
What if CBAM inclusion of fertiliser raises global food-input prices?
mixed
7% 3–10 years
What if carbon pricing of agricultural emissions drives food-input prices higher?
mixed