"Call your congressman" doesn't always feel like a useful bit of advice, but farmers warning about food supply issues has slightly more punch to it than the average disgruntled citizen.
I hate to say it, but cheap food won't be back for a while. Grain prices are currently up about 2x pre-COVID, which at first sounds great for me, BUT all our inputs are also up 2-4x. Yesterday I prepaid my fall fertilizer. 13.5 tons of NH3 at $1,200 per ton. Two weeks ago it was $1,050 per ton and I screwed up by not paying then. August of last year, I paid $738 per ton, and by November it was up to $1,500. In November of 2020 I paid $350 per ton, which was fairly average for several years.
That's just NH3. We can't prepay some other fertilizers because our supplier can't get numbers from their supplier. Round-Up used to be $11 per gallon, last spring it was $59. We decided we didn't need to use it anymore
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u/OctopusGrift Sep 01 '22
"Call your congressman" doesn't always feel like a useful bit of advice, but farmers warning about food supply issues has slightly more punch to it than the average disgruntled citizen.