Seems it does do that. One year tomatoes grow like mad and the next it’s squash and zukes that go nuts while tomatoes suck.
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Fertilizer shortage
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Brazil, the top exporter of everything from soybeans to coffee and sugar and the biggest importer of fertilizers, argues for keeping crop nutrients sanction free in the name of food security. The U.S., on the other hand, leans toward upping the ante against Russia.
“Maybe sacrifices are necessary to address the unjustified war that Russia has chosen to start,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a virtual event organized by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization on Wednesday.
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“Maybe sacrifices are necessary to address the unjustified war that Russia has chosen to start,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a virtual event organized by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization on Wednesday.
Fertilizer Sanctions Split Farm Superpowers as Food Prices Surge
(Bloomberg) -- The world’s agricultural superpowers are divided over whether Russian fertilizers should be sanctioned as surging prices threaten to further stoke food inflation.Most Read from BloombergPowerful Quake Off North Japan Kills 4, More Than 90 InjuredUkraine Update: Biden Offers Kyiv...
Yesterday, FED Jerome Powell said this years goal was to stabilize / level off "prices".... Now, he did not say reduce prices, simply level them off. The numbers you are showing indicate prices are continuing to increase. His words were "The economy must be slowed". Reducing demand slows an economy. In this very specific case, the demand for food would need to decrease in order for the demand for fertilizer to decrease. As long as the US Government continues to subsidize food for the rest of the world the trade deficit will increase. Simply raising interest rates 0.25% is not going to reduce the demand for food. Maybe I am missing something..... Comments ?
Bipartisan Members of Congress to U.S. International Trade Commission: This Is No Time for Tariffs on Fertilizers
Nearly 90 members of Congress sent a letterrecently to the U.S. International Trade Commission calling on it to reconsider the tariffs placed on phosphate fertilizer products imported from Morocco and suspend the current process to impose new duties on nitrate fertilizers from Trinidad and...
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Some fertilizers have more than doubled in price. For instance, Melek said potash traded in Vancouver was priced at about $210 per metric tons at the beginning of 2021, and it’s now valued at $565. He added that urea for delivery to the Middle East was trading at $268 per metric ton on the Chicago Board of Trade in early 2021 and was valued at $887.50 on Tuesday.
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A fertilizer shortage, worsened by war in Ukraine, is driving up global food prices and scarcity
A shortage of fertilizer has added to growing concerns about the price and scarcity of food because of disruptions in Russia and Ukraine.
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One more "shot to the foot"...
The EU is expected to deliver another shock to its agricultural sector by capping Russian imports of potash, a crucial ingredient for growing food, according to Bloomberg, citing a Dow Jones report.
The European Commission is expected to imminently unveil broad new sanctions on Russia. Much of the fertilizer is purchased from Belarus; the landlocked country in Eastern Europe could also be slapped with new sanctions for its involvement in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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The EU is expected to deliver another shock to its agricultural sector by capping Russian imports of potash, a crucial ingredient for growing food, according to Bloomberg, citing a Dow Jones report.
The European Commission is expected to imminently unveil broad new sanctions on Russia. Much of the fertilizer is purchased from Belarus; the landlocked country in Eastern Europe could also be slapped with new sanctions for its involvement in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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This is why I have been saying that most of these sanctions are temporary in nature. Biden is pushing for regime change, but if it doesn't happen quickly the world will suffer.One more "shot to the foot"...
The EU is expected to deliver another shock to its agricultural sector by capping Russian imports of potash, a crucial ingredient for growing food, according to Bloomberg, citing a Dow Jones report.
The European Commission is expected to imminently unveil broad new sanctions on Russia. Much of the fertilizer is purchased from Belarus; the landlocked country in Eastern Europe could also be slapped with new sanctions for its involvement in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Fertilizer Tariffs, Shortages Taking Toll on American Farmers and Relief is Needed, National Corn Grower Leader Tells International Trade Commission
Shortages in nitrogen fertilizers are placing an undue burden on farmers and could eventually be detrimental to the global food supply, according to testimonyprovided today to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Commission (ITC). The hearing comes after CF Industries...
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I'm a contractor in a nitrogen product plant. They make AN, UAN, Nitric acid, and ammonia... All by cracking natural gas.
They are loading trucks and railcars 24/7 and still can't keep up with the demand.
Mike
They are loading trucks and railcars 24/7 and still can't keep up with the demand.
Mike
I hear there are barges sitting outside Baltimore full of 32 percent with no where to go
They are hauling 32 from Texas to Kansas right now because it didn’t get used in Texas like they thought. With the dry weather in Kansas ain’t nobody going to use that high dollar stuff this summer LOL
Yeah those colluding cock suckers can eat it.
What is there left. 2. Maybe. Fertilizer companys.
Ya on phosphate we got mosaic and simplot. Those two pushed hard for import tariff on foreign phos and eventually that happened.
So ya, colluding cocksuckers !!!!
We have farmers selling off their complete herds because they don't have the grass and couldn't fertilize due to the price hike this spring. I'm thinking of biting the bullet and just getting 2 tons of 20-10-20. I already offered to let my neighbor use my pasture (I only have a few horses so I can tolerate his cattle on there for a couple of weeks). With everybody selling off their herds down here prices are going to drop and I am betting some of those same people will try to list their farms but with percentage rates being high I am not sure how many will be interested in taking out loans to buy them.
Risk versus Reward
Like watching a high stakes card game with 4 small time players and a couple of high rollers.... There will not be a clear cut winner, just who is left standing at the end of the game.
Kenny Rogers, The Gambler
On a warm summer's evening
On a train bound for nowhere
I met up with the gambler
We were both too tired to sleep
So we took turns a-starin'
Out the window at the darkness
The boredom overtook us
And he began to speak
One of my customers down in texas works a 2600 acre ranch for cattle. They use a 880 acre block for grass they cut for hay. I believe they cut it twice a season, but i'm not 100% sure on that. They worked a deal with the local chicken growers to get chicken manure, ect, for $39/ton that they spread on the grass field to fertilize it. He says it's working out great, and even with high diesel costs to truck it around, it's still far cheaper than the typical fertilizer options.
Branden
The local chicken farms are charging a lot down here because they can, try $400-600 a ton for chicken manure but then fertilizer per ton is roughly $800-900. With the recent high heat and lack of rain it is not looking good for hay production so we will see a massive increase in hay prices in the Louisiana area as demand will outsource supply with a lack of production from lack of fertilizing and also rain. We had an ok spring which would have been great to fertilize and get a good strong pasture but the costs were prohibitive for many in this area (CENLA) and we took the gamble to save a little. Luckily my pasture is almost set up like a silvo pasture so I have the trees to protect a lot of it. I do have to cut the pasture because the native grass in times of drought produces an acid that is stored in it (up in the seed heads if I remember correctly) that can cause founder and other issues in equines and other livestock.
I fully expect to see the wild horse herd populations grow in this area as people dump their horses like they did when there was a drought in 2010.
that shit *literally* will burn anything if it's put on too thick. Hell, you don't need weed killer, just lay about 1 inch of chicken crap where you want to kill weeds.
Horse population will drop once things get really bad and people start to eat the horses. When food prices get so high that the working poor start to have difficulty getting enough calories, they'll find ways to supplement.
Branden
We'll see. I'm not a fan. Tried it in Italy.
A good discussion for another time. Best to start a new thread on that one.
I went to freaking Lowe's to get some fertilizer for my back yard which was stripped bare during tree removal (4 of them). I about "keeled" over Doug Mercata style when I saw the 50lb bag. I got the 25 lb bag and then some "natural" fertilizer (which is fine because it doesn't burn, stinks..yes).
I wish, local chicken farms. Truck loads, loose, I think they might also spread it (I kind of think my neighbor spread it himself last time, I'll have to ask).
That must be calculated at per tn nutrient or something. At $400 to $600/tn, chem fertilizer would be cheaper.
But is it free range?????But the chicken litter is organic!!
You can overdo it with the chicken litter. Evidently, it has some residual effect. There has been so much chicken litter spread over the farms in my area over the years that they rarely use it anymore.
No meat or horse meat.
History indicates that you will love it if the alternative is Stalingrad or Donner Pass.
Sirhr
Low and slow on horse and dog.
At least, at least that's what my Chinese friend says.
Like what according to who?
Long-term Iowa State Research Shows Poultry Manure Improves Profits, Soil Health
America is spoiled and wants everything quick, easy and cheap.Like what according to who?
Long-term Iowa State Research Shows Poultry Manure Improves Profits, Soil Health
www.cals.iastate.edu
When this recession deepens and the cheap and easy disappear, nothing will happen quickly. Hunger will come about much quicker than building a sustainable homestead.
Prior to WW2 all crops were "organic".
Population wasn't as large and neither was production. Of course we didn't waste as much out of necessity. I see backyard farms coming back like we had when I was a kid.
Bill Gates has a plan to reduce the population...... He also is the largest farm land owner in America.
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