UK · £/tonne · AI-forecasted

Polysulphate Price, UK

UK Polysulphate price, AI-forecasted, £/tonne. Indicative, forecasted and not a transactable quote.

Price today£251/tAs of 2026-08-16
1-week▼ −£2
1-month▲ +£1
1-year▲ +£15
52-week range£234–£277mid-range
Uncertainty±2%
Typical miss£2/tmedian of recent checks

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.

Polysulphate month-end daily forecast, £ per tonne
MonthPriceChange
August 2026£251+£2
July 2026£249+£2
June 2026£247+£2
May 2026£245−£25
April 2026£269−£1
March 2026£270+£25
February 2026£246+£12
January 2026£234−£2
December 2025£236−£0
November 2025£236−£5
October 2025£240+£4
September 2025£236n/a

The current modelled uncertainty band is tight, about ±2%.

Our model's typical Polysulphate miss is £2/t, with 7 of its last 10 checks landing inside the published range. Polysulphate is £258/t below the average of the other tracked grades. Over the past 52 weeks, Polysulphate has ranged from £244 to £275/t, and it is currently in the middle of that range.

About this grade

Polysulphate is a mined mineral rather than a manufactured fertiliser. It is polyhalite, extracted in North Yorkshire, and it supplies sulphur along with potassium, calcium and magnesium in a single naturally occurring granule. Its nutrients release gradually rather than all at once, which suits it to situations where sulphur is needed over a long window.

Common questions

Why is there no cost per kilogram of nutrient?
Because polysulphate supplies four nutrients at once. There is no single nutrient to divide the price by, and apportioning the cost between sulphur, potassium, calcium and magnesium would require assumptions about what each is worth to you.
What moves the polysulphate price?
Unusually for a fertiliser on this index, it is domestically mined, so it is not exposed to freight and import parity in the way an imported grade is. Its price is driven by production and by demand for sulphur.
What is it used for?
Chiefly as a sulphur source. UK soils receive far less sulphur from the atmosphere than they did before industrial emissions were cleaned up, and sulphur deficiency limits nitrogen use efficiency, so a sulphur input has become part of a normal programme rather than a corrective.
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.