Farmer John Yeley watched fertiliser prices spiral after the start of the Iran war with dismay. That quickly gave way to anger.
Before hostilities broke out in February, the anhydrous ammonia he spreads on his cornfields cost $800 a ton. Now it’s $1,050. That means he’ll have to fork out $53,000 more for the stuff than before the war — “a cost increase that was not anticipated at all”, Yeley said.
“I’m upset that in these trying times, when the ag sector is already hurting bad, it was the last thing we needed stacked on top of us,” he added.
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