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Seitz said the conflict plus Western sanctions on Russia and Belarus has reduced fertilizer supply on global markets and could reshape crop nutrient trade, thus creating even more supply uncertainty.

“Could there be a change in global trade patterns as a result? We think that’s a possibility,” he said.

Ain't globalism grand? There should be a long list of items we're self sustainable on instead of relying on 'global markets'. Anything to do with food for one.

the fertilizer shortage started last year, partly due to Biden shutting down the LPG pipelines and oil industry in the US.

And someone in the Biden administration was quoted as being happy because it meant that farmers would have to rely on green fertilizer, aka manure and compost.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/war-ukraine-having-catastrophic-effect-132521456.html

But manure fertilizer is also in short supply, and composting (and flooding of rice paddies to get rid of weeds by rotting them) is a major source of greenhouse gas.

we grown organic rice, and use chicken manure. But it is more expensive and grows less rice than using more modern methods.

This year, our fertilizer is up 40 percent (maybe more) and the price of diesel to run the handplows and other farm machinery (and to transport to market) has also gone up.

By the way BBM said he will develop the petroleum resources here in the Philippines, whereas the Catholic bishops and the green elites are opposed to funding fossil fuel companies. Maybe that is one reason that Marcos won the election yesterday.