DAP and MAP and Nitrogen (ammonia)

Their prices have moved together.

DAP and MAP (chemical) and Nitrogen (ammonia) (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: shared demand

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

DAP contains nitrogen as well as phosphate and is bought by the same farmers in the same seasons, so the two fertiliser prices move together: monthly changes correlate at 0.45 and yearly changes at 0.80, among urea's strongest links.

• 0.45 monthly change correlation
• 0.80 12-month change correlation
• 0.86 fitted elasticity

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