17 Nov 2014

Fertiliser prices to drop - Ravensdown

2:45 pm on 17 November 2014

The fertiliser co-operative, Ravensdown, is reducing the prices farmers are paying for some key products, in response to changing conditions in the international fertiliser market.

Nitrogen fertiliser, urea, is to fall $23 a tonne, DAP and granulated ammonium sulphate drop $35 a tonne, and potash falls $55.

Ravensdown's chief executive officer, Greg Campbell, said there was a falling demand for ammonia-based products as Brazil's market remained depressed.

He said it was notoriously hard to predict where prices of those global commodities were going to go, but the co-operative tried to pass on any savings where it could.

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