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NOLA (Daily) Granular Urea Price — FOB NOLA
The latest FOB NOLA granular urea assessment is $439.00 per st for 3 September 2026, up $35.00 from the previous daily assessment (20 Aug 2026). Explore the historical price chart and recent daily assessments below.
Latest NOLA (Daily) Granular Urea Price
- Basis
- FOB NOLA
- Unit
- USD/st
- Frequency
- Daily
- CS code
- CS-ARG-D-UREA-NOLA-G
What This Indicator Measures
Daily FOB NOLA assessment of granular urea barges in USD per short ton — the US Gulf river-barge market.
Urea (granular and prilled): A physical price for urea, the most widely traded solid nitrogen fertilizer (46% N). Granular and prilled are different physical forms and separate markets; daily and weekly assessments of the same origin are related but separate series.
What the source does not state for this series
- USD/st values are not converted to USD/mt on this site; multiply by 1.1023 to approximate USD/mt.
Specification · stated by the source for this series
- Granular urea (46% N); USD/st (short ton = 907.18 kg), from the series unit.
- Urea contains 46% nitrogen by mass.
- Granular product has a larger particle size than prilled; the two are priced separately.
Basis: FOB NOLA
- FOB (free on board): the price covers the product loaded on the vessel at the named origin; sea freight and insurance to the destination are excluded, so FOB values from different loading areas are not delivered-cost equivalents.
- NOLA is New Orleans, Louisiana; a NOLA barge basis refers to product on river barges at the Mississippi mouth, priced in USD per short ton.
Unit: USD/st
- Most series are USD per metric tonne of product, not per tonne of nitrogen. NOLA barge series are USD per short ton (907.18 kg); Rouen and German inland series are EUR/mt.
- FOB origin and CFR destination values differ by freight and insurance and are not interchangeable.
NOLA (Daily) Granular Urea Price Chart
Available history 29 Jan 2026 through 3 Sep 2026 (21 observations). Monthly averages below use the midpoint of each published assessment.
Granular Urea — NOLA (Daily)
Computed Summary
Statements below are calculated by CommodityScope from the loaded history only. Each one names its period and method; none explains why a value moved.
The latest assessment of $439.00/st on 3 Sep 2026 is up $35.00 (+8.7%) from the previous daily assessment (20 Aug 2026).
Method: Computed by CommodityScope as the difference between the two most recent loaded daily observations (14 calendar days apart).
The source edition itself printed a day change of -6.50, which is kept separately from the computed figure above.
Method: Published change copied from the edition; it may reference an assessment date that is not loaded here.
Over the loaded history (29 Jan 2026 – 3 Sep 2026), the highest assessment was $747.50/st on 15 Apr 2026 and the lowest was $352.50/st on 25 Jun 2026.
Method: Minimum and maximum of the published midpoint over the loaded history (29 Jan 2026 – 3 Sep 2026, 21 observations). This is not an all-time record.
- No completed calendar month with at least 8 daily observations is loaded, so the latest value is not compared with a monthly average.
Price Changes and Historical Range
Published changes are copied from the source edition. Computed changes are CommodityScope calculations between loaded daily observations; the two are shown separately and may differ when an intermediate edition is not loaded.
Monthly NOLA (Daily) Granular Urea Prices
Average, minimum and maximum of published midpoints in each calendar month. These are not the daily assessed low–high bands. Incomplete latest months are marked month to date.
| Month | Average mid | Min mid | Max mid | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Month to date | 439.00 | 439.00 | 439.00 | 1 |
| August 2026 | 394.17 | 388.50 | 404.00 | 3 |
| July 2026 | 432.50 | 422.50 | 442.50 | 2 |
| June 2026 | 388.13 | 352.50 | 445.00 | 4 |
| May 2026 | 526.33 | 470.00 | 562.50 | 3 |
| April 2026 | 707.50 | 667.50 | 747.50 | 2 |
| March 2026 | 655.83 | 587.50 | 695.00 | 3 |
| February 2026 | 455.00 | 451.00 | 459.00 | 2 |
| January 2026 | 437.00 | 437.00 | 437.00 | 1 |
Recent Daily Assessments
Last 21 published assessments. The chart above is interactive; this table is the HTML history.
| Date | Low | High | Mid | Δ day (published) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-03 | 438.00 | 440.00 | 439.00 | -6.50 |
| 2026-08-20 | 403.00 | 405.00 | 404.00 | 0.00 |
| 2026-08-13 | 387.00 | 390.00 | 388.50 | -3.50 |
| 2026-08-06 | 385.00 | 395.00 | 390.00 | +2.50 |
| 2026-07-30 | 420.00 | 425.00 | 422.50 | -14.00 |
| 2026-07-23 | 440.00 | 445.00 | 442.50 | +10.00 |
| 2026-06-25 | 345.00 | 360.00 | 352.50 | -5.00 |
| 2026-06-18 | 355.00 | 370.00 | 362.50 | +15.00 |
| 2026-06-11 | 380.00 | 405.00 | 392.50 | -6.25 |
| 2026-06-04 | 440.00 | 450.00 | 445.00 | +2.50 |
| 2026-05-28 | 465.00 | 475.00 | 470.00 | -10.00 |
| 2026-05-21 | 545.00 | 548.00 | 546.50 | -13.00 |
| 2026-05-07 | 555.00 | 570.00 | 562.50 | -30.75 |
| 2026-04-23 | 660.00 | 675.00 | 667.50 | -22.50 |
| 2026-04-15 | 740.00 | 755.00 | 747.50 | -7.50 |
| 2026-03-26 | 690.00 | 700.00 | 695.00 | +19.00 |
| 2026-03-19 | 675.00 | 695.00 | 685.00 | +30.00 |
| 2026-03-06 | 585.00 | 590.00 | 587.50 | -15.00 |
| 2026-02-19 | 455.00 | 463.00 | 459.00 | 0.00 |
| 2026-02-12 | 445.00 | 457.00 | 451.00 | -4.00 |
| 2026-01-29 | 436.00 | 438.00 | 437.00 | +3.50 |
What This FOB NOLA Price Represents
This page tracks the daily granular urea on a FOB NOLA basis, quoted in USD/st. Figures are CommodityScope Indicators synthesized from loaded market editions. They are not a live quote and not a republication of a price-reporting agency table.
How to use this series
- Track export values by origin (FOB) and import values by destination (CFR); compare like with like (granular vs granular, FOB vs FOB).
What it is not suitable for
- Farm-gate or retail prices.
- Comparing a USD/st NOLA barge value with USD/mt seaborne values without conversion.
Compare With
Each comparison states why the series are related and whether the latest values can be subtracted directly (same unit, currency and assessment date). Where they cannot, the values are shown side by side without a difference.
| Series | Why compare | Latest | Difference (this − other) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granular Urea Forward — NOLA FOB barge NOLA · USD/st · weekly | Swap curve referencing this NOLA granular urea market; compare the M1 tenor with the physical value, not later tenors.
| 444.00 3 Sep 2026 | -5.00 |
| UAN 32 — NOLA FOB NOLA · USD/st · weekly | UAN 32 barges FOB NOLA: the liquid nitrogen alternative in the same market and unit.
| 322.50 3 Sep 2026 | +116.50 |
| Urea Production Cost — US Gulf US Gulf FOB equivalent · USD/mt · weekly | Modelled US Gulf production cost in USD/mt (unit differs).
| 110.31 3 Sep 2026 | not directly comparable |
Related Urea Prices
- egypt (daily) granular urea pricesFOB Egypt
- Middle East granular urea pricesFOB Middle East
- nigeria (daily) granular urea pricesFOB Nigeria
- middle east non-us granular urea pricesFOB netback
- iran granular urea pricesFOB Iran
- egypt / europe weekly granular urea pricesFOB Egypt
- nigeria weekly granular urea pricesFOB Nigeria
- china weekly granular urea pricesFOB China
Sources and Methodology
CommodityScope publishes this page as a derived indicator from loaded physical-market editions. It does not republish a price-reporting agency table and does not claim authorship of the underlying source assessments. Update cadence follows the daily series. Internal series code CS-ARG-D-UREA-NOLA-G.
CS Indicator policy and derived-data rules.
Sources for the explanations on this page
- ICC Incoterms® 2020 rules (FOB, CFR, CIF, FCA definitions) — Meaning of the delivery terms used in the basis column.
- CommodityScope methodology — derived-indicator rules and computed statistics
Origin of the numbers: loaded market editions (see Basis and Unit above). Origin of the computed statistics: CommodityScope, from the loaded history, using the rules on the methodology page.