Market Insight
Price trends and the market outlook, 19th June 2025
Category: Outlook & Reviews
The long-term SOP outlook – a hot topic
In this CRU Insight, Wahome Muya and Willis Thomas of CRU Consulting take a deep dive into the long-term prospects for potassium sulphate (SOP).
Vanguard views on future farming
What dividends might farming technology deliver in future decades? Three vanguard companies, ICL Growing Solutions, John Deere and BigSis, share their thoughts.
Measuring innovation
Vatren Jurin of DunhamTrimmer proposes a sophisticated methodology that accurately tracks the global value-added fertilizer market.
Resilient demand versus historically bad affordability
In this CRU Insight, Anthony Rizzo explains why market participants should expect an uneven global demand picture in 2026 and highlights regional variations.
IFA 2025 Annual Conference report
Selected highlights of the International Fertilizer Association’s Annual Conference in Monaco in mid-May.
Market Insight
Price trends and the market outlook, 10th April 2025
Nickel market developments
Indonesia has become the epicentre of the world nickel industry, and is now seeking to raise royalty rates to capture more value from this. Will this impact upon the continuing expansion of HPAL capacity there?
The impact of US tariffs
While the US tariff situation remains subject to considerable uncertainty, there has already been an impact on short term trade flows, as well as investment decisions.
TSI World Sulphur Symposium 2025
The Sulphur Institute (TSI) held its World Sulphur Symposium in Florence from April 8th-10th.