IndexMundi Fertilizer Commodity Prices Data

Small on purpose: five fertilizer commodities, one table shape, four decades of months. The record keeps monthly world price histories for DAP fertilizer, potassium chloride (muriate of potash), rock phosphate, triple superphosphate (TSP) and urea, every series carried as the same three columns - Month, Price, Change - with the price quoted in US dollars per metric ton.

Provenance matters more here than volume. The urea line is the Black Sea bulk spot f.o.b. price, running from July 1991 forward with 1985 through June 1991 quoted on an earlier Eastern Europe f.o.b. basis, credited to Fertilizer Week, Fertilizer International and the World Bank. Display windows flex from six months to thirty years, any commodity in the wider catalogue can be charted against a fertilizer series, and values can be re-expressed across roughly fifty currencies.

Inside Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets averaging 7.81 for quality, this slice scores 6/10 - breadth of fields traded for length and consistency of history. Get a sample of this dataset cut to the commodities and windows you care about.

Three consecutive months of the urea series, exactly as they ship:

commodity=urea   unit=USD per metric ton   basis=Black Sea bulk spot f.o.b.

Month      Price     Change
Jan 2026    415.40       -
Feb 2026    472.00   13.63%
Mar 2026    725.63   53.74%

Read the arithmetic straight off the page: $415.40 to $472.00 is a 13.63 percent February step, and $472.00 to $725.63 is a further 53.74 percent jump in March - a near-doubling inside eight weeks that the Change column carries without any derived work on your side. The dash on January's row is structural, not missing data: no prior month sits inside a retrieved window, so there is nothing to compute a percentage against.

Every commodity repeats the identical three-column shape, which is why a five-series panel stitches together without a mapping layer.

Three documented fields define every row, verified against the published tables during the August 2026 research pass:

(table: field-dictionary)

Two display-derived extras confirmed during research stay folded under additional fields on request: a paired comparison column when a second catalogue commodity - energy, grains, oils, metals or another fertilizer - is charted alongside, and converted-currency values from the roughly fifty-currency surface. Their observed shapes get pinned down when your sample is cut, rather than promised blind.

Geography - world reference prices rather than country panels: Black Sea bulk spot f.o.b. for urea, comparable export-market benchmarks for DAP, potassium chloride, rock phosphate and TSP. One number stands for the world clearing level of each nutrient, which suits input-cost modeling better than it suits regional arbitrage.

Temporal - urea reaches from July 1991 to the present, with 1985 through June 1991 on its earlier Eastern Europe basis; the other four commodities carry comparable depth, adding up to roughly 400-plus monthly observations per commodity and about 2,000 rows for the category. Values were current through March 2026 at research time.

Granularity - one monthly average per commodity per calendar month. Trend and cycle arrive pre-smoothed, at the cost of missing the shortest spikes a daily feed would catch.

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Cadence is yours to set - a monthly series tolerates a light schedule, though teams watching pass-through clauses often pull tighter anyway. Every delivery ships the field dictionary above, sample rows for validation, and a schema that holds steady from one delivery to the next.

• Procurement and agri-input analysts benchmark supplier quotes and contract escalators against the world reference level for each nutrient, so a quote 40 percent above the benchmark asks for a conversation rather than a signature.
• Investors and quant researchers take three decades of one consistently-measured monthly input cost for macro overlays and fertilizer-equity work, where a hand-stitched multi-source history would add more error than it removes.
• Market researchers and consultants cite the series as cost-side context for anything fertilizer touches: grain-farming margins, biofuel economics, food inflation chapters - the 53.74 percent March 2026 jump is the kind of callout a report wants ready-made.
• Competitive intelligence teams read the five nutrients against each other, since divergent nutrient trajectories say something about producer regions that any single series cannot.
• Journalists, academics and students get citable monthly figures with a clean provenance chain: IndexMundi crediting Fertilizer Week, Fertilizer International and the World Bank.

Investors and quants get the longest consistently-measured fertilizer price memory in the catalog; see investors quants use cases. Market researchers get citable cost context with provenance attached; see market researchers use cases. Data scientists get a tidy three-column panel that trains on without a cleanup notebook; see data scientists use cases. Journalists, academics and students get monthly figures traceable to named trade publications and the World Bank; see journalists academics use cases.

Three catalog neighbors bracket this record. FAOSTAT - Fertilizers by Nutrient owns quantities - production, trade and agricultural use in tonnes of nitrogen, phosphate and potash nutrients from 1961 - but quotes no prices. USDA ERS Fertilizer Use and Price carries US application rates per crop plus farm and wholesale price tables from 1960 - deep on America, silent elsewhere. Trading Economics - Urea commodity price runs a daily urea print from 2019 forward - finer frequency, far shorter memory.

This dataset owns the middle ground: five world price levels, monthly, measured the same way back to the early 1990s. The practical stack joins it to FAOSTAT volumes for value-at-stake math and to the daily urea feed when recent weeks matter.

Three things, stated up front.

First, these are monthly averages, not daily ticks. If a decision hinges on intra-week movement, pair this series with a daily urea source rather than asking it to be something it is not.

Second, the publisher posts a notice that some historical prices are temporarily unavailable due to methodology changes at the underlying sources. Long-run stitching deserves a continuity check against the delivered file before anything downstream trusts the seam.

Third, the verified core is three fields per commodity-month; the display-derived extras stay folded until your sample pins their shapes. Name the commodities, currencies and date windows you care about and the extract comes back cut to exactly that form.