# Fungicides and Potatoes

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/fungicides-and-potatoes/

[Fungicides](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/fungicides/) (chemical) and [Potatoes](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/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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