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The Fertilizer Institute - Market Intelligence Statistics

Datadory delivers the fertilizer institute market intelligence statistics data covering the U.S. industry association's four recurring statistical products: Fertilizer RECORD production, producer inventories and producer disappearance; monthly import-export quantities and values by material and partner country; combined DAP/MAP export reports on three reporting bases; and feedgrade phosphate sales reaching back to January 1984.

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Where it covers
United States for production, inventories and trade, world partner countries as the trade dimension, plus a state-level U.S. mineral fertilizer consumption view
How far back
Feedgrade phosphate sales from January 1984 onward; current-month and year-to-date views for the RECORD and trade reports
How fine
Monthly rows per report family; the Fertilizer RECORD compiles quarterly; phosphate exports publish on monthly, calendar-year and fertilizer-year bases

What is the fertilizer institute market intelligence statistics dataset?

It is the statistical program of The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), the U.S. fertilizer industry's trade association - the closest thing the American market has to an industry self-census. Four recurring products carry the numbers:

  • The Fertilizer RECORD - monthly U.S. producer production, producer inventories and producer disappearance, the trio that describes whether domestic supply is being made, stocked or consumed.
  • Fertilizer Imports and Exports - monthly quantity and value by material, with country of origin recorded for imports and destination recorded for exports, plus nutrient totals.
  • The Phosphate Materials Export Report - U.S. exports of combined DAP/MAP by destination country, published on monthly, calendar year-to-date and fertilizer year-to-date bases.
  • The Feedgrade Phosphate Report - monthly sales of dicalcium, tricalcium and monocalcium phosphate, with history reaching back to January 1984.

A supply-and-demand market trends stream runs alongside the statistical core, contributing narrative analysis and roughly seven infographic and one-pager resources - U.S. mineral fertilizer consumption by state, imports by source, domestic versus imported nutrient consumption, exported versus imported nutrients per month, and nitrogen/phosphate/potash commodity one-pagers.

Between them, the collection answers the three questions behind any U.S. fertilizer model: what got produced, what crossed the border and in whose direction, and what the feed industry bought.

What do sample rows look like?

Each report family lands with its own column set, so a delivery reads as four shapes rather than one wide table:

report=fertilizer_record          period=2026-07
production=________  producer_inventories=________  producer_disappearance=________

report=imports_exports  direction=imports  period=2026-07
material=urea  quantity=________ t  value=$________  origin_country=________

report=phosphate_materials_export  material=DAP/MAP combined  basis=fertilizer_ytd
destination_country=________  quantity=________

report=feedgrade_phosphate        period=1984-01
dicalcium=________  tricalcium=________  monocalcium=________

The blanks are deliberate. They mark exactly where captured values land - production next to the period that produced it, quantity beside value so tonnage and dollars never have to be reconciled after the fact, origin country on the import side and destination country on the phosphate-export side. When your sample arrives, every underscore is replaced with a real figure from the corresponding report, and the four blocks join on period without a crosswalk.

What fields does the dataset include?

Six documented fields span the collection: the RECORD trio (Production, Producer inventories, Producer disappearance) and the trade pair (Quantity, Value) keyed by the partner-country dimension (Country of origin / destination). Definitions below are drawn from the published scope of each product; they are confirmed against delivered rows when your sample is prepared, which is also where column naming gets locked for your pipeline.

How wide is the coverage?

Geography: the United States as the reporting economy - production, inventories and trade all measured nationally - with world partner countries forming the trade dimension and one infographic breaking U.S. mineral fertilizer consumption down by state (2017-vintage).

Temporal: the deepest series is feedgrade phosphate, monthly from January 1984 - over four decades of dicalcium, tricalcium and monocalcium sales. The RECORD and trade reports carry current-month figures with year-to-date views accumulating through the year.

Granularity: monthly rows per report family, with two wrinkles worth planning around: the Fertilizer RECORD compiles on a quarterly cycle, and phosphate exports publish on three bases at once - monthly, calendar year-to-date and fertilizer year-to-date.

Set against the wider Datadory catalog - 1,744 datasets, average quality score 7.81 - this slice scores 5/10. The ceiling is scope, not depth: it is one country's industry ledger, unmatched inside that perimeter and silent outside it. Pair it with a global series when the question crosses borders.

How is the data delivered?

API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.

You choose the channel and set the cadence; the rows arrive identical either way - typed against the field dictionary, the four report families separated as they publish, and period columns normalized so a quarterly-compiled RECORD drops into monthly pipelines without reshaping. Every delivery ships the full dictionary and sample rows for validation.

Who uses this data, and for what?

  • Procurement and supply planners anchor domestic-availability math on producer-reported production and inventories before netting off imports, so the gap they plan against is the industry's own accounting rather than a third-party estimate.
  • Trade and policy analysts trace fertilizer materials across the U.S. border by quantity and value simultaneously, with origin and destination countries attached - the nutrient totals make import-dependence arguments directly citable.
  • Investors and quant researchers watch producer inventories and combined DAP/MAP export destinations against fertilizer price cycles; inventory build and export pull give the cycle a leading indicator.
  • Animal-nutrition and feed-market analysts size the feedgrade phosphate segment from a sales series that predates most of their other sources by decades.
  • Market researchers and consultants cite the trade association's own ledger when a U.S. fertilizer market sizing needs an authoritative denominator.

Which personas get the most value?

Market researchers and consultants get the industry's self-reported baseline for U.S. sizings; see market researchers use cases. Investors and quant researchers get inventory and export-destination signals tied to the price cycle; see investors quants use cases. Data scientists get four tidy per-report column sets that join on period; see data scientists use cases. Journalists, academics and students get citable national figures straight from the industry's own program; see journalists academics use cases.

What should I know before requesting a sample?

Three things, stated plainly.

First, the dictionary is scoped, not exhaustively verified. Six fields carry confident definitions drawn from each product's published description; anything deeper is confirmed against live records when we prepare your sample rather than promised blind here.

Second, the RECORD's quarterly compilation matters for joins. Production, inventories and disappearance arrive compiled quarterly even though the report is monthly in conception - normalize periods before joining them to monthly trade rows.

Third, the state-level consumption view is a snapshot, not a series: the U.S. mineral fertilizer consumption-by-state infographic rests on 2017 data, so treat it as context for the national numbers rather than a time series. Name the report families, materials and years you care about, and the sample comes back cut to them.

Which notes pair with this dataset?

Adjacent slices that complete the picture:

Field dictionary

Every field below is documented against real records. The full dictionary ships with the sample.

Field dictionary - six documented fields across the four report families
FieldTypeDefinitionExample
ProductionnumberMonthly U.S. producer production reported in the Fertilizer RECORD.-
Producer inventoriesnumberMonth-end stocks held by U.S. producers, per the Fertilizer RECORD.-
Producer disappearancenumberDomestic disappearance - shipments net of inventory change - in the Fertilizer RECORD.-
QuantitynumberTrade volume by material in the monthly imports and exports report.-
ValuenumberTrade value by material in the monthly imports and exports report.-
Country of origin / destinationstringPartner country dimension: origin for imports, destination for exports.-
Additional fields on request-Material-level breakdowns beneath nutrient totals, feedgrade product splits, and the state-level consumption view's underlying figures - confirmed against delivered rows when your sample is prepared.-

The four statistical products - measures, dimensions and reporting bases

ProductMeasuresDimensionsReporting bases
Fertilizer RECORDU.S. producer production, producer inventories, producer disappearancePeriod (month)Monthly figures, compiled quarterly
Fertilizer Imports and ExportsQuantity and value by material, nutrient totalsMaterial, country of origin (imports), destination (exports)Current month plus year-to-date
Phosphate Materials Export ReportU.S. exports of combined DAP/MAPDestination countryMonthly, calendar year-to-date, fertilizer year-to-date
Feedgrade Phosphate ReportSales of dicalcium, tricalcium and monocalcium phosphateProduct type, period (month)Monthly, history from January 1984

Coverage at a glance

DimensionCoverage
GeographyUnited States for production, inventories and trade, world partner countries as the trade dimension, plus a state-level U.S. mineral fertilizer consumption view
TemporalFeedgrade phosphate sales from January 1984 onward; current-month and year-to-date views for the RECORD and trade reports
GranularityMonthly rows per report family; the Fertilizer RECORD compiles quarterly; phosphate exports publish on monthly, calendar-year and fertilizer-year bases

What teams do with it

  • Domestic availability modeling Anchor production and inventory math on producer-reported figures before netting off imports.
  • Trade-flow mapping Trace fertilizer materials into and out of the U.S. by partner country, value and quantity together.
  • Phosphate export monitoring Watch combined DAP/MAP shipments by destination on monthly, calendar and fertilizer-year bases.
  • Animal-feed mineral sizing Size the feedgrade phosphate market from dicalcium, tricalcium and monocalcium sales history to 1984.

Questions buyers ask

What does the fertilizer institute market intelligence statistics dataset include?

Four statistical products from The Fertilizer Institute: the Fertilizer RECORD with U.S. producer production, inventories and disappearance; monthly imports and exports by material with partner-country detail and nutrient totals; the Phosphate Materials Export Report on combined DAP/MAP shipments by destination; and the Feedgrade Phosphate Report on dicalcium, tricalcium and monocalcium phosphate sales.

How far back does the feedgrade phosphate series go?

To January 1984 - more than four decades of monthly sales history for dicalcium, tricalcium and monocalcium phosphate. It is the longest continuous run in the collection and predates most alternative feed-mineral sources by many years.

What is the Fertilizer RECORD?

The flagship statistical product: monthly U.S. producer production, producer inventories and producer disappearance. Compiled on a quarterly cycle, the trio shows whether domestic supply is being made, held in stock or consumed - the baseline for domestic-availability modeling.

Does the trade data identify partner countries?

Yes. Imports carry a country-of-origin dimension and exports a country-of-destination dimension, each with quantity and value by fertilizer material, plus nutrient totals. Phosphate exports add a third lens: combined DAP/MAP volumes reported monthly, on calendar year-to-date and fertilizer year-to-date bases.

Is state-level U.S. fertilizer detail available?

Only as a snapshot: an infographic breaks U.S. mineral fertilizer consumption down by state, based on 2017 data. There is no state-level production or trade series in the collection, so sub-national work should treat it as context for the national figures.

Who uses the fertilizer institute market intelligence statistics data?

Procurement planners anchoring domestic availability, trade analysts mapping import origins and export destinations, investors reading producer inventories against price cycles, feed-market analysts sizing the phosphate segment, and consultants citing the industry's own ledger in U.S. market sizings.

Notes on this record

  • Narrow perimeter, deep inside it One country, one industry, four products - and the only source in the catalog speaking for U.S. producers in their own voice, with feedgrade history to 1984.
  • Scored below catalog mean Datadory scores this record 5/10 against a 1,744-dataset catalog mean of 7.81 - the U.S.-only scope holds it down, not the data itself.

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