“Spring scramble” = desperately hoping things improve by spring. They will not. Food supply is in trouble:

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Fertilizer shortage may lead to spring scramble on North America's farms

A global shortage of nitrogen fertilizer is driving prices to record levels, prompting North America's farmers to delay purchases and raising the risk of a spring scramble to apply the crop nutrient before planting season.

Farmers apply nitrogen to boost yields of corn, canola and wheat, and higher fertilizer costs could translate into higher meat and bread prices. Global urea prices this month topped $1,000 per tonne for the first time.

World food prices hit a 10-year high, according to the United Nations food agency, led by increases in cereal crops like wheat and vegetable oils.

#fertilizer #FoodPrices

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fertilizer-shortage-may-lead-spring-062826693.html

Australian farmer warns urea supply crisis could halt normal life within weeks

- AdBlue needed for diesel vehicles — half of all trucks on Australian roads run on diesel (along with a quarter of all registered vehicles.)
- Fertilizer for food:

“'Not only will we not be able to grow cattle and we will not be able to grow food and we will not be able to grow grain or anything like that, but even if we could, we can't move it, because we can't turn a wheel in a truck because we have no Adblue,'

As of February we might not have a truck on the road in Australia, we might not have a train on the tracks.

'So quite literally the whole country comes to a standstill as of February.'

#fertilizer #Australia

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/farmer-reveals-the-terrifying-reality-of-australia-s-urea-shortage/ar-AARGHto

Rolling out the sewage for crops. Disgusting.

“In the UK, not only are farmers scrambling for animal compost, but many are even trying to get their hands on treated sewage sludge containing human excrement, or biosolids.

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“The market for manure — from pigs, horses, cattle and even humans — has never been so hot, thanks to a global shortage of chemical fertilisers.”

… and THIS is part of why they want to eliminate animal agriculture!

“Just ask Andrew Whitelaw, a grains analyst at Thomas Elder Markets based in Melbourne, Australia, who runs a commercial pig farm in his spare time. Whitelaw said that he has completely sold clean of animal waste, as farmers hunt for alternatives to the more commonly used phosphate- and nitrogen-based fertilisers that are vital to boosting crop yields.

“We don’t have any left,” he said. “In a normal year, you’d probably get a couple phone calls a year, not a couple of phone calls a week.”

The demand for dung is playing out globally. In Iowa, manure is selling for $40-$70 per tonne, up about $10 from a year ago and the highest levels since 2012, according to Daniel Anderson, assistant professor at Iowa State University and a specialist on manure.

In the UK, not only are farmers scrambling for animal compost, but many are even trying to get their hands on treated sewage sludge containing human excrement, or biosolids.

#AnimalAg #fertilizer

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bloomberg/news/2021-12-10-the-world-is-desperate-for-manure-amid-fertiliser-shortage/

Fertilizer Inflation Contributing to Higher Food Prices

Food prices are expected to rise going into 2022, and one major contributing factor is the rising price of fertilizer. The American Farm Bureau Federation stated that all nutrients had risen dramatically in cost over the last year: ammonia has increased over 210%; liquid nitrogen has increased over 159%; urea is up 155%; MAP has increased 125%; DAP is up over 100%, and potash has risen above 134%. This does not include the growing cost of transportation.

IAF: It is becoming economically infeasible to produce food…by design.

#FoodsPrices #fertilizer #Inflation

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/fertilizer-inflation-contributing-to-higher-food-prices/

Cole the Cornstar shares how his bill for fertilizer & seeds has exploded year-over-year — this is real, and farmers can NOT absorb these kinds of costs.

This is part of the Great Food Transformation to destroy farming and ranching, and force people into dependency on the technocrats. Grow your own, with your own compost! Start now!

#Fertilizer #FoodPrices #WarOnFarms #SupplyChain

full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP9oP09wars

50% Surge in Fertilizer Prices Adds $128,000 in On-Farm Costs for 2022, Finds Texas A&M Study

As the nation struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of supply chain disruptions continue to wreak havoc on agricultural input markets, both in terms of availability [!!] and cost of inputs. In the case of fertilizer, prices have exploded over the past year

As farmers furiously try to price and source fertilizer ahead of the spring rush, a new report from the Texas A&M Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) shows supply chain disruptions are wreaking havoc on nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous prices, costing feedgrain farms the most.

#Fertilizer #FoodPrices

https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/corn/50-surge-fertilizer-prices-adds-128000-farm-costs-2022-finds-texas-am-study

Farming Insider Warns The Coming Food Shortages Are Going To Be Far Worse Than We're Being Told

As I’ve been warning, I’m hearing these same things from farmers: prices for inputs have exploded IF they are available at all! A controlled demolition of our food supply is ongoing.

#FoodShortage #fertilizer #SupplyChain

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/farming-insider-warns-coming-food-shortages-are-going-be-far-worse-were-being-told

Massive fire rips through North Carolina fertilizer plant, thousands asked to evacuate over explosion fears

This is not a coincidence -- this is the war on food production. We are already low on #fertilizer.

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North Carolina officials are asking thousands living within a one-mile radius of a raging fire at a fertilizer plant in the city of Winston-Salem to evacuate Tuesday amid fears of a large explosion.

The fire started Monday night at Weaver Fertilizer Plant on North Cherry Street, and the City of Winston-Salem officials have confirmed small explosions at the plant.

Winston-Salem firefighters fought the blaze for about two hours before the fire "began affecting a rail car" and at that point "became an explosive hazard," prompting concerns of an explosion of ammonium nitrate, Battalion Chief Patrick Grubbs, a 15-year veteran of the Winston-Salem Fire Department, said in the latest on-camera update provided to reporters at the scene at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Mayo said Monday evening that fire crews "abandoned" the fire-fighting operation because of the large volume of ammonium nitrate on site.

#Fire

https://www.rt.com/news/547950-fertilizer-plant-fire-north-carolina/

Russia stops the export of ammonium nitrate

With world fertilizer supply running short, nations are taking steps to hold on to whatever they can to ensure their domestic food production will be unaffected this season.

(Meanwhile fert factories in the US are being burned down...)
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“From February 2, a two-month ban on the export of ammonium nitrate comes into force. The corresponding government decree has been signed,” its statement told.

“This is a temporary measure, the remaining volume can be exported from April 2, when Russian enterprises will receive ammonium nitrate in the required volume, and the demand for it in the domestic market will peak,” said First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov.

#fertilizer

https://www.fertilizerdaily.com/20220202-russia-stops-the-export-of-ammonium-nitrate/

#WarOnFarms #Fertilizer

Really not good: further degradation of #fertilizer supply chain:

Lithuanian Railways has already received an official notification from Belarus that oil products belonging to Poland’s ORLEN Lietuva and fertilizers from Lithuanian company Achema will no longer be able to be transported through Belarus to consumers in Ukraine.

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Belarus since Monday, in response to the blocking of the transit of potash fertiliser through the Baltic port of Klaipėda, has blocked trains with Lithuanian petroleum products and fertilizers, especially those going to Ukraine. For several days now, economists and policymakers in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius have been counting possible economic losses due to their transit war with Belarus. The current crisis in the relations between Minsk and Vilnius was instigated by Lithuania’s ruling coalition, particularly Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė and Foreign Minister Gabriel Landsbergis.

#Fertilizer #Ukraine #Belarus

https://southfront.org/lithuania-goes-from-bad-to-worse-as-belarus-closes-vital-economic-railway-artery/

Another fire at a fertilizer plant, Yakima, WA, USA destroys 1.75 million pounds of mixed components for fertilizers - how many fertilizer facitilies have burned down just this year now? (As fertilizer shipments from Russia stop?)

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Fire rages at fertilizer facility, forces evacuations in Sunnyside

Although a chemical fire in Sunnyside quickly consumed an industrial building and emitted sulfur-laden smoke throughout the afternoon and evening, Monday’s blaze was caught early enough to avoid injuries and could have been much worse, officials said.

A smoldering pile of sulfur quickly became a raging chemical fire just after 1 p.m. Monday at Nutrien Ag Solutions, 1101 Midvale Road, Sunnyside Fire Chief Ken Anderson said.

The fire destroyed one storage building on the southeast corner of the fertilizer storage facility in the Port of Sunnyside and damaged others, but adjacent Nutrien buildings and storage tanks containing hazardous chemicals were spared, Anderson said Monday evening.

The storage building contained 1.75 million pounds of mixed components for fertilizers, but there were more dangerous chemicals in adjacent buildings and tanks, and firefighters prevented the blaze from spreading to them, Anderson added.

“It was caught early on — it could have been much worse,” he added.

#Fertilizer #Fire

https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/no-one-hurt-as-fire-rages-at-fertilizer-facility-forces-evacuations-in-sunnyside/article_7ba76165-fa09-5277-a7e7-a39fed1aa43e.html

Fertilizer prices spike 43% to fresh record high as supplies tighten. Rising costs of farm inputs will continue to send food prices soaring.

#fertilizer #FoodPrices

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-28/fertilizer-price-surges-43-to-fresh-record-as-supplies-tighten