Grain-to-Fertilizer Price Ratio

What matters to a farm is not the fertilizer price alone but how much of it the crop can pay for. The fields are prefilled with the latest World Bank world prices; overwrite them with your own.

Crop
Fertilizer

Prefilled: World Bank world prices in USD, Aug 2026.

One tonne of crop buys 0.85 t
Crop needed for one tonne of fertilizer 1.18 t
Cost per kg of nutrient 0.848 (N)

How it is calculated

Ratio = crop price ÷ fertilizer price. Cost per kilogram of nutrient = fertilizer price ÷ (1,000 kg × nutrient share). With Wheat at 330 and urea at 390 dollars per tonne (World Bank, Aug 2026), one tonne of Wheat buys 0.85 tonnes of urea, and a kilogram of nitrogen from urea costs 0.85 dollars. The higher the ratio, the more affordable fertilizer is relative to the crop.

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