# Herbicides and Pulses

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/herbicides-and-pulses/

[Herbicides](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/herbicides/) (chemical) and [Pulses](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/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.