Menker: Natural gas drives 70 to 90 percent of nitrogen fertilizer costs
Sara Menker · HIBT Lab! Gro Intelligence: Sara Menker · Dec 8, 2022 · at 20:49
Sara Menker, founder and CEO of Gro Intelligence, explains how European energy shocks directly drive up global nitrogen fertilizer production costs.
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“70 to 90% of the cost of producing nitrogen-based fertilizer is the cost of natural gas.”
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