This is from a friend who is a farmer. He told me the cost of water is becoming astronomical as well. It’s almost $800 per acre ft.
pic.twitter.com/CGEy4OGnz0— Tamika Hamilton (@TamikaGHamilton) March 14, 2022
Posted on 03/15/2022 12:10:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As inflation wholesale prices soar past 10 percent and gas prices continue to surge, economists and farmers across the country are warning about another looming crisis.
Farmers are seeing a fertilizer shortage. Combined with high water and fuel prices, costs are set to soar as food becomes less available.
Convo with farm today:
- Meat processors booked out a year because stockpiling beef.
- Farmers in South can’t get fertilizer for crops now.
- Farmers in Midwest are switching, can’t get nitrogen nor fertilizer.
Buckle up, folks! The media isn’t even warning you. #economy— Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) March 11, 2022
This is from a friend who is a farmer. He told me the cost of water is becoming astronomical as well. It’s almost $800 per acre ft.
pic.twitter.com/CGEy4OGnz0— Tamika Hamilton (@TamikaGHamilton) March 14, 2022
From Market Watch:
Fertilizer prices were already running red hot this year before a European energy crisis fanned the flames, potentially adding to a pinch on farmers in the U.S. and around the world and stoking worries about food inflation.
“It’s almost like a perfect storm of different reasons that probably has a lot of upside in price for different macronutrients,” said Samuel Taylor, Cleveland-based executive director of research at Rabobank, in a phone interview.
Natural gas is a key ingredient in the process used to make nitrogen-based fertilizers used on a range of crops, including corn and wheat. Natural gas accounts for 75% to 90% of operating costs in the production of nitrogen, Taylor noted.
Do the geniuses in this “kill-fossil-fuels” administration realize that natural gas is a key ingredient for fertilizer? Natural gas accounts for 75% to 90% of operating costs in the production of nitrogen. Their war on energy is freezing AND starving us. https://t.co/4Dtsf99h8G— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) March 10, 2022
Some are warning the Russian invasion into Ukraine, resulting in new sanctions on the Kremlin, will make it much worse. Fertilizer companies in Russia are sounding the alarm. From Reuters:
A global food crisis looms unless the war in Ukraine is stopped because fertiliser prices are soaring so fast that many farmers can no longer afford soil nutrients, Russian fertiliser and coal billionaire Andrei Melnichenko said on Monday.
"The events in Ukraine are truly tragic. We urgently need peace," Melnichenko, 50, who is Russian but was born in Belarus and has a Ukrainian mother, told Reuters in a statement emailed by his spokesman.
"One of the victims of this crisis will be agriculture and food," he said.
CORRECTION: Russian fertilizer and coal billionaire Andrei Melnichenko said a global food crisis looms unless the war in Ukraine is stopped. We are deleting a previous video that contained an incorrect company name https://t.co/DunDNnQYVL pic.twitter.com/cIf5LHrhTO— Reuters (@Reuters) March 14, 2022
Grocery prices are already springing UP, and it’s not even Springtime yet. This probably has to do with too few truck drivers to transport goods in a timely fashion.
No food, no fuel, no electricity = sitting ducks
John Kerry and other white liberal 'elites' can afford the higher prices and the rest of us can eat cake or starve. Yeah, they KNOW and they don't give a damn.
It just keeps coming!
With all the sh!t coming out of the Biden WH and his diaper I find it ironic that farmers can’t get fertilizer.
Bidens communists will have us eating our pets soon.
Hey, that was funny. I’m going to steal the line. LOL.
Those that can survive and live through this world wide crisis
will have interesting stories to tell their grandchildren. The
world will keep spinning and circling the sun until the end.
Then it will bye bye for the living.
Farmers, I understand depleted soils. But what would be the the result if the typical farmer used 1) NO FERTILIZER, or 2) 1/2 the normal amount?
“It’s almost like a perfect storm of different reasons”
No, just ONE reason — the Big Steal in November 2020.
God’s Judgement is coming.
Buy Tractor companies. DE and CNHI.
Putin’s fault. Or Trump.
This is no accident.
It looks like everything including fuel has “doubled” in the last year.
That’s too bad for middle and lower class families.
recession/depression???
Commercial farms are the same. There is no free lunch....
We have plenty of fertilizer in this country as organic sourced. There is absolutely no need to be dependent on chemical companies. Just start spreading the manure... In a life or death situation you do what you have to do.
Depends on what. Wheat and corn both sharply drain soil nutrients. This is partially allayed by rotating crops. For example, planting soybeans or alfalfa to refix nitrogen specifically.
To specifically answer your question, for no fertilizer, depending on the shape your soil is in, you might see only a slight decrease in yield...the first year. Try that too many times, and you’ll completely drain the soil. Using less simply delays that.
Now, you can use animal fertilizer, but then comes the great joke: Most of those who farm large fields don’t have a lot of animals, and those who have a lot of animals don’t tend to keep a lot of crops. So, the animal fertilizer has to be transported, and it’s bulky, so a lot of transport, which the cost is sharply up on, thanks to Brandon. Also, animal based fertilizers tend to see a lot of weeds in your field (Animals pass a lot of the seeds they eat straight through).
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