It's one of the most asked questions among farmers this year:
“How are we going to contend with high fertilizer prices?”
“Going back to 2004, fertilizer prices have just about doubled,”
says Glen Harris, University of Georgia Extension soil
scientist. “And it's not the fault of your fertilizer dealer.
There are a lot of reasons for increased fertilizer prices, and
we just have to deal with them — you can't make good corn
without fertilizer.”  When nitrogen prices increased, it was
blamed on natural gas, says Harris, and when lime prices
increased, it was blamed on freight costs. “In general,
everything is up because of supply and demand, and not just in
the United States but worldwide. The global population is
growing and the United States is a cheap market. If they can
sell it somewhere else globally, they will. China has 1.3
billion people and 55 percent of them are farmers. There are 300
million people in the U.S. and about 2 percent of them are
farmers,” he says.  With fertilizer prices being so high, fa