Prices skyrocket, supply choked: perfect storm for fertiliser

John Ellicott
Updated March 25 2021 - 10:35am, first published 10:26am
Fertiliser products such as MAP and DAP are hard to find due to shipping problems, price hikes and China cutting its export supply of phosphate.
Fertiliser products such as MAP and DAP are hard to find due to shipping problems, price hikes and China cutting its export supply of phosphate.

A "perfect storm" of events has taken fertiliser supply - MAP and DAP - to critically low levels with the price subsequently going through the roof.

John Ellicott

John Ellicott

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