Argh! Herbicide shortage! I should have expected it. Any details?
…First, what is causing the shortage? There are several different factors which are impacting this issue. In no particular order, the reasons for the herbicide shortage include a decline in number of laborers to unload tanker ships at gulf ports, lack of truck transportation from the ports to get the ingredients to U.S. formulation plants or formulated products to the retailers, reduced supplies of some of the inert ingredients of the formulation, shortages of materials to make containers and packaging, and Hurricane Ida that damaged a glyphosate production plant in Luling, LA…
I don’t know many details, and the article above covers what I knew plus a little. There are rumors of a possible pesticide shortage, but I haven’t seen anything concrete yet.
If you can grow a garden, grow as much as you can! Now is probably a good time to research permaculture as well. Permaculture has been lumped together with the leftist eco-cult, but if you can manage to get past that and into the actual science behind it, it can be useful.