Fungicides and Potatoes

Their prices have moved together.

Fungicides (chemical) and Potatoes (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: crop protection

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Late blight can destroy potato crops, so growers spray fungicides many times a season. The US pesticides index correlates with the potato index at 0.10 for monthly moves and 0.42 for yearly moves, partly a shared US farm cost cycle.

• 0.10 monthly change correlation
• 0.42 12-month change correlation
• 1.71 fitted elasticity

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