Posted on 05/07/2022 2:15:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The agricultural situation in the United States and the Western world is about to go from bad to worse, thanks to sustained shortages of raw materials needed to grow food.
After much of the supply of fertilizer was taken off the market thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world’s biggest manufacturer of the necessary agricultural commodity is warning that supply disruptions are likely to last well into 2023, meaning food shortages — and the resulting price spikes — are not going away anytime soon.
According to Bloomberg, Canada-based Nutrien Ltd.’s CEO Ken Seitz informed investors earlier this week during a conference call that he anticipates boosting the production of potash following supply disruptions from Ukraine and Russia, both of which are major fertilizer producers. He said that he believes disruptions “could last well beyond 2022.”
He went on to say that the conflict with the addition of Western economic sanctions on Russia and Belarus, a Russian ally, has cut the amount of available fertilizer on world markets and as such is liable to reshape nutrient trade, which will only add to further supply uncertainties.
“Could there be a change in global trade patterns as a result? We think that’s a possibility,” Seitz told investors.
It is looking a lot more like fertilizer shortages are going to be a multi-year phenomenon as already, farmers are reducing usage of the product which is likely to lead to smaller crop yields come harvest time. And of course, the repercussions are massive: Lower yields will only make the existing food shortages worse. And make no mistake, while the U.S. and the West have somewhat wasteful food habits, there is not a major global surplus of food; any disruptions in yields will lead to a spike in shortages in the poorest countries where food insecurity is already...
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Geez, wonder how farmers ever cropped without fertilizers before. /s
“Geez, wonder how farmers ever cropped without fertilizers before.”
Slash and burn?
The USA has always been fertilizer rich...
Evidently the concept of "yields" is beyond your smarmy, minuscule comprehension.
And apparently, the sarcasm tag attached to my mention utterly escaped your smarmy, miniscule comprehension, you think dink?
OMFG.
Thanks for the post.
It’s called starvation. Something Americans haven’t had to face in generations but may get up close and personal soon enough.
Never like reports from a place that has a conflict of interest. Them saying there will be shortages gives them cover to keep prices elevated.
Name a single one that doesn't.
Roger Ailes said before he died that Fox News would never say anything bad about the pharmaceutical industry because that's where 80% of their advertising revenue comes from.
Buyers of fertilizer dont have that conflict of interest.
Especially D.C., where our politicians emit continuous streams of fertilizer while they speak...
What did they do before 1989?
This is prep for demanding more govt subsidies.
You seem to be an expert on farming and fertilizer.
You should be answering the questions rather than asking them.
Unless you’re just an empty-headed, know-nothing blowhard.
Ping
Samantha Power, who has flown over many farms at 35,000 feet and thus is Biden’s expert on Something, says they can use manure or something. She does seem well familiar with manure...
“Half of the population is already in need of humanitarian support. This analysis suggests that we are on course for rapid, catastrophic deterioration in the lives of Afghanistan’s most vulnerable people”
“What did they do before 1989?”
They used commercial fertilizers.
According to the USDA, we are a major importer of fertilizer:
“The United States is a major importer and dependent on foreign fertilizer and is the second or third top importer for each of the three major components of fertilizer. The top producers of the major components of fertilizer include China, Russia, Canada and Morocco, with Belarus also providing a significant share of potash.”
Biden should be clamoring for increasing domestic fertilizer and food stocks production instead of unwanted electric vehicles.
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