For the billions who don’t work in agriculture, the global shortage of affordable fertilizer likely reads like a distant problem. In truth, it will leave no household unscathed.
FOR the first time ever, farmers the world over all at the same time are testing the limits of how little chemical fertilizer they can apply without devastating their yields come harvest time. Early predictions are bleak. In Brazil, the world’s biggest soybean producer, a 20-percent cut in potash use could…
For the first time ever, farmers the world over — all at the same time — are testing the limits of how little chemical fertilizer they can apply without devastating
(Bloomberg) For the first time ever, farmers the world over all at the same time are testing the limits of how little chemical fertilizer they can apply without devastating their yields come harvest time. Early predictions are bleak.
SAYING the government’s resort to tariff tweaks to fight inflation will not help the economy or give consumers relief, hog and corn farmers are opposing the plan to issue new executive orders that would lower corn tariffs and extend the reduced tariffs on pork. They said they will appeal to…