U.S. Gulf: Like urea, many sources last week said the UAN barge market started off high before succumbing to a nervous tone. Early week trades were called $335-$345/st ($10.47-$10.78/unit) FOB. By the end of week, however, sources speculated that the next piece of business would be in the $325-$330/st ($10.15-$10.31/unit) FOB range.
July-February imports were off 3 percent, to 2.28 million st from the year-ago 2.35 million st. February imports, however, were actually up 9 percent, to 288,580 st from 265,767 st.
Eastern Cornbelt: The UAN-28 market was quoted at $330-$335/st ($11.79-$11.96/unit) FOB Cincinnati, with the low for prompt material and the upper end for forward tons. Out of East Liverpool, sources pegged the dealer market at $12.45/unit FOB.
The UAN-32 market was pegged at $380-$390/st ($11.88-$12.19/unit) FOB throughout the Ohio River Valley for truck tons, and up to $400/st ($12.50/unit) FOB out of terminals in northern Illinois and Indiana.
Western Cornbelt: UAN-32 remained in the $375-$390.40/st ($11.72-$12.20/unit) range FOB regional terminals in the Western Cornbelt, with the upper end in Iowa and the low in southern Missouri.
Southern Plains: Recent weather delays have caused UAN inventories in the Southern Plains to loosen up a bit, but supplies remained very tight at some terminals.
Sources quoted the the UAN-32 market at $365-$375/st ($11.41-$11.72/unit) FOB regional production points for any available prompt tons, with reports of at least one location offering forward tons at the $355-$360/st ($11.09-$11.25/unit) FOB level. Those numbers were down considerably from last report.
South Central: UAN pricing in the South Central region was up from last report. Sources quoted the UAN-32 market at $370-$375/st ($11.56-$11.72/unit) FOB Memphis and spot Arkansas terminals on the low end.
The upper end of the regional range was quoted by Kentucky sources at the $380/st ($11.88/unit) FOB mark or higher for truck tons in the Ohio River Valley.
Southeast: Sources pegged the UAN-32 market at $350/st ($10.94/unit) FOB Norfolk, Va., Wilmington, N.C., and Brunswick, Ga., with UAN-30 quoted at the $330/st ($11.00/unit) mark FOB most port terminals in the Southeast.
Western Canada: Yara Belle Plaine UAN production continues to be offline with expectations that it will be up soon.