Average retail fertilizer prices were mostly lower the second week of June 2026 compared to a month earlier, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. DTN’s Ross Quinn says the last time most nutrient prices were lower was the first week of February 2026.
Prices for five fertilizers were lower than last month, while prices for the remaining three were slightly higher. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more.
Leading the nutrients lower was urea. The price of nitrogen fertilizer was 12% lower than a month ago, at $764 per ton.
UAN32 was 5% less expensive than the previous month. The nitrogen fertilizer had an average price of $569/ton.
The remaining three fertilizers were just slightly less expensive than a month ago: DAP had an average price of $909/ton, anhydrous $1,092/ton, and UAN28 $531/ton.
Three fertilizers were slightly more expensive than last month: MAP at $955/ton, potash at $494/ton, and 10-34-0 at $723/ton.
On a price per pound of nitrogen basis, the average urea price was $0.83/lb.N, anhydrous $0.67/lb.N, UAN28 $0.95/lb.N, and UAN32 $0.89/lb.N.
The United States exported a record amount of urea to Canada in April 2026, boosted by first-quarter production outages and spring maintenance at Canadian plants, according to an article in worldfertilizer.com. U.S. urea exports to Canada in April rose to 144,619 tons, which is 99,086 tons higher than the five-year average for April, and were the highest for any month in records dating to 2008, according to Argus Media.
Canada’s pull on U.S. supplies stems from production downtime across multiple nitrogen plants during the winter, when Canada already had limited supplies carried over from the previous fertilizer season.
“The U.S. has generally been a net importer from Canada, with the 2022-2023 and 2024-2025 fertilizer years — which run from July through June — being an exception,” the report stated. “The U.S. appears to be on its way to another year as a net exporter to Canada in 2025-2026 as well.”
All eight fertilizers are now higher in price compared to one year earlier: Potash (by 4%), 10-34-0 (8%), DAP (13%), both MAP and UAN32 (15%), urea (16%), UAN32 (27%), and anhydrous (41%).
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told a group of farmers gathered in Texas that the commission is investigating anticompetitive behavior in the industry, according to a DTN article. You can read about it here:
