No Relief in Sight for High Fertilizer Prices

[jpak]

http://www.lancasterfarming.com/node/1246

EPHRATA, Pa. — Richard Snyder, a farmer from Lycoming County, has seen many ups and downs since he began farming at the age of 18. Prices have gone up, prices have gone down. Some years are wet, some years are dry.

And a few in between have been perfect.

At the age of 72, he still sees things he’s never seen before.

Like many other farmers, Snyder is enjoying high corn and soybean prices — some of which he has never seen before.

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[madokie]

1. We have a nitrogen fertilizer plant in the local industrial park that has been closed

for a decade or longer that is now back in production. It blew up way back in the '70s and we were lucky no one was killed and only a couple people had any injuries. It shook the windows in the town of Pryor which is several miles away

[NickB79]

2. Yep, fertilizer is a very powerful explosive

Timothy McVeigh, some diesel fuel and a half-ton of common farm fertilizer almost leveled the Oklahoma City Building. Strong stuff.