# Oats and Urea

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/oats-and-urea/

[Oats](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/oats/) (commodity) and [Urea](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/urea/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: fertiliser cost

*Cost and price · Strong · Both ways*

Nitrogen fertiliser is a main growing cost, and high urea prices push farmers towards crops that need less of it or raise the price needed to plant. The link is slow: monthly moves correlate at 0.24 but yearly moves at 0.72, partly a shared energy cycle.

- **0.24** monthly change correlation
- **0.72** 12-month change correlation
- **0.53** fitted elasticity

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