Insights and Stories on Natural Gas

Commodity prices to remain high in 2024, drop in 2025 – HSBC

Jan. 2, 2024 at 10:01 am CST

Squeezed supply, improved Chinese demand and the global energy transition will keep commodity prices elevated in 2024, before falling the following year, forecasted British banking group HSBC today.

Adjournments put off ag bills to September at earliest

Jun. 28, 2023 at 6:56 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Carbon price exemption for farm gas clears Commons

Mar. 30, 2023 at 6:47 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Fuel prices may remain high beyond Russian invasion, expert says

Mar. 22, 2022 at 4:52 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Vilsack hopes fertilizer firms don’t take advantage of Ukraine crisis

Feb. 24, 2022 at 4:04 pm CST

By Reuters

Fertilizer prices to remain high for now

Jan. 7, 2022 at 7:52 pm CST

MarketsFarm — There are two factors to consider when it comes to fertilizer. One is the cost as it’s to remain quite expensive at least through the first quarter of 2022, according to Chris Lawson, head of fertilizers for the CRU Group. The other is its availability, said Todd Lewis, […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

‘Perfect storm’ causes fertilizer price spikes

Sep. 27, 2021 at 4:58 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Fertilizer prices have increased over the past year, but could be headed even higher as a recent confluence of events has caused a shortage — the effects of which may affect producers past the New Year. “Particularly, in the last few weeks, there have been a number of […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Britain tells its food industry to prepare for CO2 price shock

Sep. 22, 2021 at 4:00 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Britain warned its food producers on Wednesday to prepare for a 400 per cent rise in carbon dioxide prices after extending emergency state support to avert a shortage of poultry and meat triggered by soaring costs of wholesale natural gas. Natural gas prices have spiked this […]

By Guy Faulconbridge James Davey Kate Holton

U.K. meat industry warns of threat to supplies from CO2 crisis

Sep. 20, 2021 at 3:40 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Some of Britain’s meat processors will run out of carbon dioxide (CO2) within five days, forcing them to halt production and impacting supplies to food retailers, the head of the industry’s lobby group warned on Monday. A jump in gas prices has forced several domestic energy […]

By James Davey

Norway’s Yara curtails European ammonia output

Sep. 17, 2021 at 1:44 am CDT

Oslo | Reuters — Norway’s Yara is curtailing ammonia production at a number of plants due to a surge in the price of natural gas, the fertilizer maker said Friday. “Record high natural gas prices in Europe are impacting ammonia production margins,” Yara said in a statement. “Including optimization of […]