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Farmers Struggle to Keep Up With the Rising Costs of Fertilizer
via Modern Farmer
Posted March 9, 2022 10:59 pm
by Paul Bonneville
“It’s like we’re finally seeing all the hard work and time pay off,” he says, noting that, this past year, he set a new record for corn at 298 bushels per acre while using the lowest fertilizer inputs to date. “When you make these decisions, you have a hard time seeing the changes all of the time, but these past months, when we were able to do more with less, it feels like a homerun,” he says.
I saw the title of the article and wondered how, if at all, these fertilizer issues affect farming operations that practice organic and/or regenerative practices. This article does go into that a bit. The short of it is that, at least for regenerative farming, you can reduce your conventional fertilizer input needs, but it is in the long game where the benefits play out.
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