The Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Data Guide (2026)

Fertilizer and nutrient data is one of the best-covered corners of Datadory's catalog: 22 datasets serve the industry — 19 primary records plus 3 related datasets borrowed from adjacent industries (USDA NASS Quick Stats from agricultural products & services, the World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) and USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables). Unlike most verticals, national and supranational agencies do nearly all the primary publishing here. Defra anchors Great Britain, USDA contributes two public-domain workhorses, Eurostat runs two free APIs, and FAOSTAT plus the World Bank extend country coverage past 245 economies from 1961.

Government statistical agencies (all free)

Multilateral panels and curated open sets

Gated market and geospatial data

Nine recurring jobs define how teams use this pool, and each maps to named records:

Market Researchers & Consultants. They need geographic granularity and citable institutional sources — searches like "what are the best market sizing data sources" and "where do consultants get their data". Across the catalog, 786 datasets rate as strongly relevant for this persona and 665 of those (84.6%) are completely free. This industry suits them unusually well: harmonised multilateral panels (FAOSTAT — Fertilizers by Nutrient, World Bank — Fertilizer consumption indicator (AG.CON.FERT.ZS), Eurostat) plus official national series from Defra, Statistics Canada and India's Department of Fertilizers hold up under client scrutiny. Start at the market researchers hub.

Agri-environment and policy analysts. They search "eu gross nutrient balance data" and "soil nutrient runoff indicators europe". Eurostat's aei_pr_gnb — 63,729 observations decomposing balances into mineral fertiliser, manure, fixation and deposition — is the reference, with CEH Land Cover plus: Fertilisers 2010-2015 (England) adding 1 km spatial detail over England.

Quick answers to the questions searchers actually ask about this pool:

Where can I get free fertilizer consumption data by country?

Which USDA datasets cover fertilizer use by crop?

Two public-domain sources cover the United States. USDA ERS's Fertilizer Use and Price workbook packs 32 tables with national consumption from 1960 and application rates for corn, cotton, soybeans and wheat, where state panels cover 85-96 percent of planted acres. USDA NASS's Agricultural Chemical Use Program adds percent of acres treated and rates by crop and state since 1990.

Is there a free API for European fertilizer statistics?

Yes. Eurostat publishes two free APIs: consumption of inorganic fertilisers (aei_fm_usefert) with 5,184 observations on nitrogen and phosphorus across 211 geographies from 1995 to 2024, and gross nutrient balance (aei_pr_gnb) with 63,729 observations from 1985 to 2023. Both serve JSON-stat, SDMX, TSV or CSV free of charge under the Commission reuse policy.

How far back do historical fertilizer price series go?

What fertilizer data is available for India?

Two sources cover India. Dataful curates nine Chemicals & Fertilizers datasets spanning subsidy disbursement from 2000-01 to 2025-26, nutrient-based subsidy rates, urea production from 2001-02, and black-marketing enforcement actions, in CSV, XLSX and Parquet. The data.gov.in platform adds official all-India production of urea, DAP and NPK from 2014-15 to 2024-25 under GODL terms.

Can I use fertilizer statistics commercially?

Where can I find plot-level fertilizer survey microdata?

The Hugging Face Rwanda Season C Fertilizer & Pesticide Use dataset offers plot-level microdata - 2,307 rows by 72 columns in ML-ready Parquet under commercial delivery terms 4.0, recording up to four pesticide products per plot. For farm-level estimates, Defra's Fertiliser usage on farm, England publishes Farm Business Survey nutrient applications by farm type and economic output band as CSV.

What are the best sources for nutrient balance and runoff indicators?

Eurostat's gross nutrient balance (aei_pr_gnb) is the reference: 63,729 observations covering 40 indicators across 32 geographies from 1985 to 2023, splitting nitrogen and phosphorus inputs into mineral fertiliser, manure, fixation and deposition. For England, CEH Land Cover plus Fertilisers maps modelled 1 km application rates for N, P and K over 2010-2015, each with an uncertainty surface.

These pages continue the thread:

For the whole pool on one index page, start at the fertilizers-agricultural-chemicals data hub, then see how these records rank for data scientists and market researchers.