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Fungicides and Grapes & wine

Their prices have moved together.

Fungicides (chemical) and Grapes & wine (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: crop protection

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Vines suffer from mildew and need many fungicide sprays, including copper and sulphur products. The US pesticides index shows little link with the wineries proxy: monthly moves correlate at 0.05 and yearly moves at 0.13.

  • 0.05 monthly change correlation
  • 0.13 12-month change correlation
  • 0.56 fitted elasticity

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