MANHATTAN, Kan. (RFD-TV News) — Fertilizer prices are also top of mind this fall, with most types seeing significant increases over the past year.
Kansas State University agricultural economist Gregg Ibendahl says farmers were able to avoid some of this year’s higher prices by purchasing fertilizer earlier, but that likely will not be the case heading into 2027.
“Fertilizer prices went up a lot this spring, but the one good thing about that, I guess, not really a good thing about that, but the one benefit to farmers is a lot of farmers had their fertilizer purchased earlier last fall before the prices really went up. A lot of farmers really were able to avoid the higher fertilizer prices for this 2026 crop. That’s not going to be the case going into 2027. Fertilizer prices are already elevated; they’re likely to go even higher, so that’s going to be a big difference when you look at the cost of production for 2027. Farmers are going to have to pay the higher fertilizer prices.”
DTN analysts found anhydrous prices have increased the most since last harvest, rising 25%. Urea is up 9%, while MAP and 10-34-0 have both gained 5%. UAN-28 and UAN-32 saw the smallest increases at 1%.
