Fertilizer Matters EP44: Sustainable & Specialty Fertilizers Market

Hear Argus’ essential analysis of the sustainable and specialty fertilizers sector, covering why this product group is growing in importance for producers, the impact on pricing of volatile trade flows, growing liquidity and CBAM, analysis of Chinese tMAP, NOP, water-soluble NOP, inhibited urea and key factors impacting prices to watch for in 2026. We also introduce a new suite of price assessments from Argus covering NOP, tMAP, MKP, CN, Water-soluble SOP, NPKs and inhibited urea.

Join Mike Nash, Senior Editor – Fertilizers and Upasruti Biswas, Senior Reporter – Fertilizers as they discuss these topics in the latest episode of Argus' Fertilizer Matters podcast series.

Key questions answered in this podcast:

• Why are sustainable and specialty fertilizers growing in importance for producers and how are these products categorized?
• How have volatile trade flows, market uncertainty and regulations like CBAM affected prices?
• How has the growth of this market segment and rising liquidity increased the need for price transparency?
• What can be learnt from the case of Chinese tMAP, through its growing importance for industrial applications such as the EV battery market?
• How is CBAM impacting prices, for example NOP – and is it driving buyers substituting to European water-soluble SOP?
• What are the complexities involved in pricing inhibited urea?
• What factors could drive price volatility in sustainable and specialty fertilizers in 2026?
• How do Argus’ new price assessments covering NOP, tMAP, MKP, CN, Water-soluble SOP, NPKs and inhibited urea improve price transparency?