Category: Outlook & Reviews

Price trends and market outlook, 26th February 2026. (Important note: this Market Insight was published two days before the start of the latest Middle East conflict.)

Kent Martin and Rafael Garcia-Martinez outline how elemental sulphur can benefit the agronomic performance of fertilizers and logistical efficiency.

Selected highlights from this year's three-day conference.

Your complete conference guide including technical programme highlights, the full conference agenda, plus exhibition plan and exhibitor profiles.

CRU will convene the 2026 Phosphates+Potash Expoconference in Paris, France, at the Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel, 13–15 April.

A complete listing of all articles and news items that appeared in Fertilizer International during 2025.

Changing markets for feedstock, shifts in demand, carbon pricing and geopolitics all help dictate the location of new urea capacity.

Nitrogen+Syngas ’s annual listing of new ammonia, urea, nitric acid and ammonium nitrate plants.

• Prices are likely to remain on an upward trajectory as long as the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed and Middle East export availability is constrained.

In just its first two months, 2026 had already managed to be a rollercoaster of a year, but at the start of March, the onset of hostilities against Iran by the US and Israel has managed to deliver another huge shock to markets, particularly commodities. Iran’s strategy of widening the conflict to neighbouring states, including by attacking Qatar’s massive LNG facility at Ras Laffan, effectively shutting it down, has sent the LNG market into chaos, and attacks on several tankers and other ships have paralysed maritime insurance markets and by default achieved the long-feared closure of the Straits of Hormuz.