# Urea: Relationships

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/links/

Every element and industry that Urea is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.

- [Ammonia](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/ammonia-and-urea/): Urea is the main way ammonia's nitrogen reaches farms: about 55% of world ammonia demand goes into urea, usually made at the same site using the ammonia plant's own CO2. Little ammonia is traded, so urea prices largely set ammonia producers' margins. *(researched)*
- [Ammonium nitrate](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/ammonium-nitrate-and-urea/): Ammonium nitrate and urea are rival ways to deliver ammonia's nitrogen to crops: urea is more concentrated and often cheaper per unit of nitrogen, while ammonium nitrate loses far less to the air. Ammonium nitrate's use in explosives brings tight safety and security rules that urea does not face. *(researched)*
- [Maize](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/maize-and-urea/): Maize is one of the three cereals that together take about half of the world's nitrogen fertiliser, and urea is the main form in which that nitrogen is bought. Fertiliser is a third or more of US maize operating costs, so the urea to maize price ratio shapes how much farmers apply and, over a season, feeds back into urea demand. *(researched)*
- [Natural gas](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/natural-gas-and-urea/): Urea is gas turned into a solid fertiliser: gas supplies the hydrogen for ammonia and most of the energy, so gas is the largest cost and sets the world price floor. In India a pooled gas price and a fixed farm price push gas cost shocks onto the subsidy bill rather than onto farmers. *(researched)*
- [Wheat](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/urea-and-wheat/): Wheat is one of the largest users of urea nitrogen, taking about a fifth of India's nitrogen fertiliser. In India a frozen urea price and a rising wheat support price keep heavy nitrogen use attractive, and the cost of that lands on the fertiliser subsidy. *(researched)*
- [Energy in farming](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/energy-in-farming-and-urea/): Energy in farming needs urea; their prices have moved together.
- [Ammonia, methanol and e-fuels](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/ammonia-methanol-and-e-fuels-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Ammonium sulphate](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/ammonium-sulphate-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Barley](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/barley-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Coffee](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coffee-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [DAP and MAP](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/dap-and-map-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Food and beverage processing](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/food-and-beverage-processing-and-urea/): Food and beverage processing depends on urea.
- [Formaldehyde](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/formaldehyde-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Furniture](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/furniture-and-urea/): Furniture depends on urea.
- [LNG chain](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/lng-chain-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Machinery and equipment](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/machinery-and-equipment-and-urea/): Machinery and equipment depends on urea.
- [Nitric acid](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/nitric-acid-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Nitrogen (ammonia)](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/nitrogen-ammonia-and-urea/): Nitrogen (ammonia) is a raw material for urea.
- [Oats](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/oats-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Rice](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/rice-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Sorghum](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/sorghum-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Tea](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/tea-and-urea/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Transport and logistics](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/transport-and-logistics-and-urea/): Transport and logistics depends on urea.
- [Wood products](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/urea-and-wood-products/): Wood products depends on urea.

## Other sections

- [Summary](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/index.md)
- [Overview](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/overview/index.md)
- [Correlation](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/correlation/index.md)
- [Production route](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/routes/index.md)
- [Production](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/production/index.md)
- [Feedstocks](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/feedstocks/index.md)
- [Cycles](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/cycles/index.md)
- [Trading](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/trading/index.md)
- [Movement](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/movement/index.md)
- [Regulation](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/regulation/index.md)
- [Characteristics](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/characteristics/index.md)
- [Emissions](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/emissions/index.md)