UK · £/tonne · AI-forecasted
Nitrate Sulphur Price, UK
UK nitrate sulphur (26% N + sulphur) price, AI-forecasted, £/tonne. Indicative, forecasted and not a transactable quote.
What the nutrient costs
The headline price is per tonne of product. This is the price of the nutrient inside it.
Price trend
How the daily forecast has moved over the last 12 months. The shaded band is the confidence range; the marker is today.
Month-on-month change
How much the daily forecast moved from one month to the next. Green is a rise, tan a fall.
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Monthly price history
The daily forecast's level at the end of each of the last twelve months.
| Month | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £467 | +£5 |
| July 2026 | £463 | −£11 |
| June 2026 | £474 | −£15 |
| May 2026 | £489 | −£17 |
| April 2026 | £506 | −£15 |
| March 2026 | £521 | +£119 |
| February 2026 | £402 | +£2 |
| January 2026 | £400 | +£11 |
| December 2025 | £389 | −£8 |
| November 2025 | £397 | +£11 |
| October 2025 | £386 | +£2 |
| September 2025 | £385 | n/a |
Our modelled price band for Nitrate Sulphur is currently tight, roughly ±2%.
Across its last 10 market checks, our Nitrate Sulphur estimate has a median miss of £6/t, and 8 landed inside the published range. Compared with the average of the other tracked grades, Nitrate Sulphur is currently £7/t below. Nitrate Sulphur has fallen £10/t (2.1%) over the past month.
Our forecast vs the official UK index
Our daily forecast and the official DEFRA index have told the same story for 12 months.
The official figure confirms each move about 15 weeks after our daily forecast shows it.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: DEFRA Agricultural Price Indices.
About this grade
Nitrate sulphur fertilisers supply nitrogen and sulphur together in one granule, which removes a spreading pass compared with applying a straight nitrogen and a separate sulphur product. They are used where both nutrients are wanted at the same moment, most commonly on cereals and oilseed rape in spring.
Common questions
- Why is there no cost per kilogram of nitrogen?
- Because these products supply nitrogen and sulphur together, and their nitrogen and sulphur contents vary between suppliers. A per kilogram figure derived from an assumed analysis would be wrong for most of the market, so we do not publish one.
- Why apply sulphur with nitrogen?
- Because a crop short of sulphur cannot make full use of the nitrogen it is given. The two are taken up together into protein, so nitrogen applied to a sulphur deficient crop is partly wasted, and combining them in one granule guarantees both reach the same part of the field.
- What moves the price?
- The nitrogen fraction follows the nitrogen market, and through it natural gas. The sulphur fraction follows the sulphur market, which is a by-product of oil and gas refining and moves on its own cycle.
- Where does the daily price come from?
- It is produced every day by our forecasting model, and the model is re-validated continuously against weekly UK market prints: a grade publishes a modelled figure only while it beats a naive hold-the-last-price baseline on months it has never seen. The shaded band around the line on the chart is the confidence range of the estimate.
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Today's price and recent trend for the other tracked grades.
AI-forecasted market estimates, getting sharper as farmers add what they paid. Indicative, not a transactable quote.