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DTN/Progressive Farmer retail fertilizer price survey

weekly average retail price per ton for urea, DAP, potash, anhydrous ammonia across US regions

Feed detail
Measures
weekly average retail price per ton for urea, DAP, potash, anhydrous ammonia across US regions
Source
dtnpf.com fertilizer price index
Access
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Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
Retail fertilizer prices are a direct farm-input cost leading indicator for agricultural commodity production costs, flowing into retail food CPI 2-3 quarters later
Maps to
ag commodities, food CPI
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:low
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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