If urea is in your input program, current market volatility will create significant pressure in the weeks and months ahead. With prices reportedly rising by 45% and hitting the $1,200/tonne mark, many growers may find this conventional input increasingly difficult to sustain. As Victorian grower Mr. Everitt recently noted in The Weekly Times : "A price of $1200 a tonne for urea is unsustainable with $300 a tonne wheat... People are going to start thinking about alternatives rather than...

The Australian agricultural sector faces a critical and imminent supply crisis  in its reliance on ammonium phosphate (MAP/DAP) fertilisers. This vulnerability is centred on the potential closure of the Phosphate Hill manufacturing plant  in March 2026, the only remaining on-shore manufacturer  of this high-analysis input. This event will expose farmers to extreme volatility driven by global supply shocks, price uncertainty, and logistical bottlenecks for a fundamental crop nutrient. In this...

The article "Aussie farmers' $150/t urea carbon fear as Euro fert prices start to soar"  clearly outlines the existential threat a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) poses to Australian agriculture, projecting a potential $300 million annual cost increase  due to reliance on carbon-intensive, imported urea. GrainGrowers chair Rhys Turton argues that taxing imports is problematic when Australia has near-zero domestic urea production, advocating instead for "agro-ecological and...