What a shut down because of the high cost of inputs means is, either the price of the fertilizer product is controlled, and they can’t pass the costs along, or the market to buy at the higher price is not there yet. When the price of food is allowed to go higher, then it becomes profitable to pay the higher price of fertilizer so you can benefit from producing more food. Somewhere along this chain the price of “something” is controlled.
The price of food at the moment is controlled by its ready availability because we are not eating food harvested before the cost of gas went up.
European Union was created to be stupid by the stupid
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The big players in fertilizer production are USA, China, Russia and India. Those countries could make up the difference to some extent.
I don’t see our fertilizer plant up on Capitol Hill ever shutting down. That’s too bad.
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Natural gas prices have increased 70% since the end of June. Fortunately we purchased our fertilizer for next year before the price hike.