Farmers Feeling the Pressure as Fertilizer Prices More Than Double

Farmers Feeling the Pressure as Fertilizer Prices More Than Double
A Sri Lankan farmer works in a paddy field on the outskirts of Colombo on January 9, 2016. Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP via Getty Images
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United States agricultural suppliers are sounding the alarm over the rising cost of fertilizers, which threatens to lower crop yields and worsen strains on global food supplies.

“It’s put a stranglehold on us,” said John Ortiz, sales manager at BigYield.us in Garden City, Missouri, an organization focused on creating strategies that increase the size and quality of crops using liquid-nitrogen-based fertilizers.
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