This week the domestic fertilizer prices continue to remain steady or trend, in which low-end offer almost no change in the high-end offer a little fall, individual manufacturers decline to 100 yuan / ton, currently there are no signs of prices. While still in fertilizer sales season, but the market overall weak demand, downstream distributors getting goods is not active, the factory operating rate is not high, most of the country operating rate remained at between 5-6 percent. Latter is mainly used as fertilizer corn, cotton, fertilizer and south rice, fruit trees, fertilizer, fruit tree fertilizer which will be based compound fertilizer.
Shandong 45% chlorine-based compound mainstream ex-factory price in the 2550-2750 yuan / ton, 45% of the ex-factory compound fertilizer mainly in 2600-2800 yuan / ton. Raw materials, some manufacturers have raised pre-ex-factory price of urea, but urea prices are stable or decreased slightly overall still dominated the mainstream offer in 1900-1930 yuan / ton, and some manufacturers have adopted a single price, the actual price will be lower.
No positive impact by the downstream procurement, Jiangsu Province started the situation slightly worse than the national average rate of the overall market stable, terminal distributor who mostly stay on the sidelines. Local 45% chlorine-based compound mainstream ex-factory price in the 2250-2350 yuan / ton, 45% of the sulfur-based compound mainstream ex-factory price at 2550-2650 yuan / ton. Local urea market decline, the current area businesses urea granules mainstream factory price 2000-2030 yuan / ton, the actual mainstream price 1980-2000 yuan / ton.
Northeast region is price stability, take the goods in general. Affected by the food price from last Dongchu Northeast market has been relatively flat since, farmers set in advance the amount of fat reduction, dealers purchase also reduced. Northeast inclement weather is also affecting the region fertilizer procurement and some even miss the rice sowing farmland, only switching to other crops, after mid-April, the Northeast market is getting warmer, but sales still expected to eventually be affected.
Fertilizer for maize in North China market outlook large dealers since early began large-scale procurement, corn is expected to more than half of the total fertilizer has been spread to the terminal retailers hand. North China is the recent price war in the domestic fertilizer market, the most intense areas, 45% of the chlorine-based compound mainstream wholesale price 2300-2700 yuan / ton range, a large difference between the high and low end, 45 % compound fertilizer mainstream wholesale price at 2500-2800 yuan / ton.
Fertilizer in June-August period will be part of a rigid demand, while the window period begins, the price outlook is expected to be strong from the previous month, but whether there will be situations prices, but also to continue to be observed.