# Energy in farming and Sand & gravel

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/energy-in-farming-and-sand-and-gravel/

[Energy in farming](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_agri_energy/) (energy) and [Sand & gravel](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sand_gravel/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: fuel cost

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Loaders, dredgers and trucks run on diesel, the fuel tracked by this proxy. Yet the link is close to nil, yearly moves at -0.05, because aggregate producers set annual list prices and add fuel surcharges rather than changing base prices with diesel.

- **-0.00** monthly change correlation
- **-0.05** 12-month change correlation
- **0.31** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.