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Fertilizer Prices Break New Records– in Conjunction with Elevated Commodity Prices, Stir Food Security Concerns
Farm Policy News ^ | 3/22/22 | Keith Good

Posted on 03/26/2022 5:09:38 AM PDT by hardspunned

Emico Terazono reported yesterday at The Financial Times Online that, “Fertiliser prices are breaking new records as supplies from Russia, the leading exporter, has dwindled, adding further to fears over food security. In a broader look at increasing agricultural productions costs, Laura Reiley reported in today’s Washington Post that, “[Illinois farmer Richard Guebert’s] fertilizer cost was $510 a ton last year, he said. This year, it’s $1,508.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: agriculture; fertilizer; food
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300% increase in the cost of fertilizer since last year! Made my first bread yesterday. 3 1/2 cups of flour per loaf. I have enough ingredients stashed away so I can swap bread for my neighbors eggs this summer. 25 lbs of flour at Kroger, $8.78. Get it while you can.
1 posted on 03/26/2022 5:09:38 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

BIDEN’S PLAN: Force Russia into having too much food and oil by making the rest of the world go without.


2 posted on 03/26/2022 5:12:41 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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To: hardspunned

bkmk


3 posted on 03/26/2022 5:17:41 AM PDT by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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To: hardspunned

Biden doesn’t give a S*&T.


4 posted on 03/26/2022 5:18:05 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: hardspunned

I was at my local nursery yesterday and it was absolutely jammed like I’d never seen. Went inside and people were swarmed around the vegetable section grabbing everything in sight.

I was the only one looking at roses.

Time to put in more tomato plants - if I can find them.


5 posted on 03/26/2022 5:54:33 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: hardspunned

Everything going according to Barak and Bribeim’s plan.


6 posted on 03/26/2022 6:02:43 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: hardspunned

This is how we fall. Food stock piles should be on everyone’s list of do’s—now!


7 posted on 03/26/2022 6:55:41 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: hardspunned

Wow. My small wheat farm in Oklahoma may actually make enough money this year to not consider selling it. Whodathunkit? But then, there’s the fertilizer bill..


8 posted on 03/26/2022 7:21:52 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: hardspunned

Biden could solve the fertilizer crisis all on his own


9 posted on 03/26/2022 7:25:19 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: eastexsteve

Ya might wanna store up some wheat incase there is a shortage. Can it be stored longer term? I feel we might return to Breadlines again if Biden is at the wheel for another 3 years


10 posted on 03/26/2022 7:27:19 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: hardspunned

Reopen the closed potash mines in Carlsbad NM! They were shut down when Canadian potash became cheaper.


11 posted on 03/26/2022 7:33:13 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (No dog in the Unraine war, but we still root for the underdog.)
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To: Bob434

Woops posted too soon. If he is,at the wheel and he drives us off the cliff in his tractor trailer he brags about, as he fu r ther implements his “lets crap up the nation” agenda. I think even dems might be questioning his decisions as the left seem to now be opening up about the laptop. Seems something is brewing in the scheming liberal camp, so who knows if they will allow him to remain president for 3 more years.

Although, under,u Der,, gas was as high as it is,now, and he got elected to another term, so maybe the left are rollingmthe dice and going all put assault on energy saving “consequences be damned”, and will dump the blame on Biden when it fails miserably as their party gets kicked to,th3 curb for decades.

Who knows what goes through their evil little minds?


12 posted on 03/26/2022 7:34:29 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

If hot air makes a balloon rise, what keeps Biden down? He is full of **it!


13 posted on 03/26/2022 7:35:38 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (No dog in the Unraine war, but we still root for the underdog.)
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To: eastexsteve

Friend in Wis is getting ready to show his nephew how to grow corn without commercial fertilizer and herbicide.

Dairy farm.

Its back to the old ways. Only thing is, they have fixed up the liquid manure spreader to be able to knife it into the ground. Going to wait till the ground is real warm and get the corn in after they get the s@it put in. That way the corn gets up before the weeds since they cant get herbicide either. They rolled out the old cultivator and fixed it.

It’ll be Corn for silage, Oats, Hay and one field of peas and oats for the silos-to mix in with the first cutting hay. No soybeans.

I dunno what the hell you grain farmers are gonna do.


14 posted on 03/26/2022 7:45:57 AM PDT by crz
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“We know that it takes 26.1 pounds of corn to make 1 gallon of ethanol”
Fertilizer is made from fossil fuels. People in Africa are starving thanks to the new green communists.


15 posted on 03/26/2022 8:39:04 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: hardspunned

Whatever happened to manure? Cows steers sheep horse? Eat grass. Vegetarian animals. Poop manure.


16 posted on 03/26/2022 9:34:29 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: eastexsteve

What percentage of your expenses are fertilizer related? Have you checked on availability of what you need for this year’s crop?


17 posted on 03/26/2022 11:26:14 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Trumpet 1

I think the problem would be collecting, processing and transporting the manure. The infrastructure and machinery to spread the manure are not there. For a small scale farmer or a farm near Washington DC, manure might be the answer,


18 posted on 03/26/2022 11:31:00 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Bon of Babble

I bought seed two weeks ago. Seed wise, there was plenty. I was told what fertilizer they had was there due to its high price and there was no prospect of getting more in the near future.


19 posted on 03/26/2022 11:34:33 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Trumpet 1

Pretty much all animal manure in a place like Iowa ends up as fertilizer. Does not come close to meeting total demand for fertilizer.


20 posted on 03/26/2022 11:39:13 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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