Oil $500 - By Flavious J. Smith, Jr.

This growth and the need for food will drive fertilizer demand to new heights .

The next chart shows the U.S. Producer Price Index of Nitrogen Fertilizer since 2012. As you can see, prices have fallen from their high of more than $470 per ton to $282 per ton in 2017. The last time prices were this low was 2010.

From 2000 to 2013, worldwide fertilizer use grew 30% from 140 million tons to 182 million tons.

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