Fertilizer shortages mean our crop will be less this year. Western drought means the same.
A point that's lost on so many here on FR that have never spent day one on a farm and equate their "experience" at being "Look at those corn fields over there!"
I grew up in central Iowa ON A FARM, worked ON A FARM every damn' day and so did everyone I went to grade school through high school with.
The fact that fertilizer and chemical costs have risen 3x-5x (and continue to go up!) and that there will be shortages of both can only mean one thing: crop and food shortages are coming despite American Farmers absolute best efforts to feed the world.
Crop yields will be down this year due in very large part to Russia and China, the worlds top exporters of fertilizer, have cut off exports to the United States. These are facts and anyone who argues against them doesn't understand at all how farming works.
So many on here who haven't spent day one on a farm think farming is "put a seed in the ground, wait till it's done growing and harvest."
Wrong. It's a shit ton of work and so many things have to go right for the harvest to be plentiful. As of right now, every farmer in America knows what's working against them and they're already starting well behind the proverbial eight ball this year. The MORONS in Washington DC are certainly making their ability to grow food harder by the day.
Rising fuel costs are also going to have a HUGE impact on food prices next year because gee, no "green energy/solar powered tractors" yet. AOC will be getting right on that, right?
The food prices each and every one of us are paying today will be considered bargains by this time next year. Anyone who's not filling their pantry appropriately RIGHT NOW to help blunt the costs that are coming is a fool.
America's farmers need our prayers for the task they all have ahead. Plain 'n simple as that.