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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BIDEN’S PLAN: Force Russia into having too much food and oil by making the rest of the world go without.
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Biden doesn’t give a S*&T.
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.
Everything going according to Barak and Bribeim’s plan.
This is how we fall. Food stock piles should be on everyone’s list of do’s—now!
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..
Biden could solve the fertilizer crisis all on his own
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
Reopen the closed potash mines in Carlsbad NM! They were shut down when Canadian potash became cheaper.
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?
If hot air makes a balloon rise, what keeps Biden down? He is full of **it!
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.
“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.
Whatever happened to manure? Cows steers sheep horse? Eat grass. Vegetarian animals. Poop manure.
What percentage of your expenses are fertilizer related? Have you checked on availability of what you need for this year’s crop?
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,
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.
Pretty much all animal manure in a place like Iowa ends up as fertilizer. Does not come close to meeting total demand for fertilizer.
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