Mary Wilson
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September 22, 20216:42 AM CDT
Last Updated 7 hours ago
By P.j. Huffstutter and Mark Weinraub
... Now, the storm's ripple effects are hampering production and movement of some fertilizers and crop chemicals ahead of U.S. harvest. This is straining an agricultural and food supply chain already battered by trade and logistics delays during the pandemic.
Rising input costs threaten the incomes of farmers who had banked on booming profits this year, as crop prices soared to the highest in nearly a decade, after years of stagnating around break-even levels. Ragland and other farmers have been rethinking what they will plant in the spring; crops requiring less fertilizer look more attractive. ...
RATIONING SUPPLIES
Global glyphosate supplies were already tight as flooding, COVID-19 outbreaks and congested ports snarled production and exports in China for months, said Allan W. Gray, executive director of the Purdue University Center for Food and Agricultural Business.
As a result, chemical manufacturers are rationing supplies to farmers and others ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...tent&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Last Updated 7 hours ago
By P.j. Huffstutter and Mark Weinraub
... Now, the storm's ripple effects are hampering production and movement of some fertilizers and crop chemicals ahead of U.S. harvest. This is straining an agricultural and food supply chain already battered by trade and logistics delays during the pandemic.
Rising input costs threaten the incomes of farmers who had banked on booming profits this year, as crop prices soared to the highest in nearly a decade, after years of stagnating around break-even levels. Ragland and other farmers have been rethinking what they will plant in the spring; crops requiring less fertilizer look more attractive. ...
RATIONING SUPPLIES
Global glyphosate supplies were already tight as flooding, COVID-19 outbreaks and congested ports snarled production and exports in China for months, said Allan W. Gray, executive director of the Purdue University Center for Food and Agricultural Business.
As a result, chemical manufacturers are rationing supplies to farmers and others ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...tent&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter