Changing natural gas market reopens EU fertilizer plants

An economist says increased European natural gas inventories have lowered prices, allowing some fertilizer producers to restart production.

Teri Viswanath with CoBank tells Brownfield the gas scarcity measures that caused plants to shut down are no longer in place after a mild winter and rebuilding of inventories. “Yes, we are beginning to see more fertilizer in Europe with the restart of those plants but we are certainly not out of the woods, and certainly over the long run, we’re going to be hard-pressed for those plants.

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