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Herbicides and Pulses

Their prices have moved together.

Herbicides (chemical) and Pulses (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: crop protection

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Pulses compete poorly with weeds, so herbicides are an important input. The US index shows little link with the bean proxy: monthly moves correlate at 0.07 and yearly moves at 0.12.

  • 0.07 monthly change correlation
  • 0.12 12-month change correlation
  • 1.00 fitted elasticity

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