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Completed

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October 07, 2026 at 04:17 PM

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October 07, 2026 at 04:18 PM

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1 minute

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Fertilizer Buyers Get More Urea, but Product Type Matters

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  "transcript": "China's exports, India's next purchase, and fresh supply concerns are keeping fertilizer markets busy. So, what does it all mean for buyers? Joining me to explain is Josh Linville, VP of Fertilizer at StoneX. Josh, good to see you. Appreciate it. We're going to do this from a little bit different spot today. The media room was double booked, so the desk it is. I appreciate the change of scenery. So, with offers due for India's latest urea tender, why is everyone watching China's exports so closely? Yeah, as of now, India IPL is the one handling this India urea purchase tender, and they've received it, and we know how many parties have offered. We don't yet have the offer information. That's what we're waiting on. But, yeah, the market, as big of a deal as this is, they're looking for 1.7 million tons. Everybody's really watching China. It looks like China's going to play a massive part. And the reason being is China's really been exporting a tremendous amount, or at least approving the export of a lot of urea. Now, let's keep in mind, historically normal, China would export between 5 and 5 and a half million tons per year. First half of this year, I think it was like 500,000 tons. It was very, very little. And all of a sudden, July hit, and it has just been going like gangbusters. Now, all of a sudden, it looks like, based on all the approvals that we've heard, we could see exports upwards of 10 million tons. But this is causing some confusion because they do granular, and they also do a lot of prilled. For a lot of the world, prilled urea just doesn't matter. I mean, if you've ever spread anything, you've ever put it together with like phosphate and potash and things like that, you know that prilled is just going to work its way back down to the bottom. It's not going to spread nearly as well or as uniform. So, for a lot of the world, it just doesn't matter. Right. India can use it. So, this is what we're watching, is China just going to swoop in on this massive purchase and just say, we're going to offload all this prilled urea, and we're going to put it in your hands. It's not exactly granular going away, but it is helping offset granular that might have thought, we're going to sell to India on this round. So, it's a complicated situation, but overall, right now, we've seen some bearishness in the market for the last couple weeks. Okay, so type does matter, essentially, is what you're saying, too. Absolutely. Meanwhile, in the never-ending story of the Strait of Hormuz, vessels are still being hit. Um, what does that mean for fertilizer supplies? That's what makes all this really interesting. And I don't say interesting from a, yay, this is really fun. Just, it's, on the one hand, you've got China that's exporting far more than they ever have, and it's not the right product for a lot of people. On the other side, it looked like we had hope with shipments picking up in the Strait of Hormuz. That's going to be going away. You've got a lot of ships that are getting hit, drone attacks, things like that. So, any sort of vessel traffic that we might have seen for, let's say, like urea or even for phosphate, is probably gone now. It's probably just gone away, and there's not a whole lot of hope of that returning short-term because now every vessel owner and captain's sitting there saying, look at what happened to these guys. They got attacked, they got destroyed, they got sunk. Whatever the case may be, I'm not putting my crew in that kind of danger. So, what we saw as a hope has now just gone away once again. Iran is not giving up this fight lightly. No, and it just keeps changing every day. So, lots of moving parts at this moment. Um, Nutrien has announced an indefinite shutdown of its Trinidad nitrogen plant. Can you tell us what's behind that decision, and how much does it change the supply picture? It comes down to a lack of reliable gas input supply. Uh, now, let's make sure we note, this is not a new situation. This isn't something that just came out of left field. This is something that's actually been going on for the better part of a year. Um, they sat there and they looked at the gas supplies, they were insufficient, they were unreliable, and they just cannot run a plant like that. You need steady input supply to keep that plant running. When you're on and you're off, it just doesn't work real well. So, they finally had to shut it down in the hopes that things would improve. Obviously, we're not privy to the information that they are. Uh, they're really good at this sort of stuff. My guess is they looked at the marketplace and said, we do not expect the gas supplies to return in a big way. We don't think they're going to return in a normal way. So, if that's the case, we're just going to shut down. Unsure if this means they're going to try and sell it, unsure if this just means it's going to be a longer-term shutdown. We do know that Trinidad has approved, uh, looking into new territorial waters to try and boost gas production. That's a great step, but the problem is it still takes a long time to develop those fields. You don't just snap your fingers and all of a sudden, all that infrastructure is out in the water. So, they've made a decision, we're going to shut down indefinitely. It's a, it's a big hit, right? It's already a world where nitrogen's already very, very tightly supplied. That's just a loss of another one. I guess I shouldn't say it's a loss, it was already a loss. It's a more indefinite loss. Right. Understood. Um, one last thing, for farmers, uh, weighing up their next purchase, what should they watch most closely over the next few weeks? I think it's still the Strait of Hormuz. Uh, really, if the bulk of this, so many different things around the world are going on, but a lot of them are tied to the Strait of Hormuz. We talk about European production being lower than normal. Well, a lot of that's tied to the Strait of Hormuz. When you talk about China, they're not exporting, they're exporting a lot. A lot of that knee-jerk reaction is Strait of Hormuz. A lot of the things are still centered on that body of water. So, for me, that's still the number one most important thing I'm watching. Understood. Josh, thank you again for all your insight and for joining us. And thank you to our viewers for watching. For more financial content, don't forget to like and subscribe to our channel.",
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