Fertilizer Crisis - Food Shortages this Autumn

Basically, America fertilizes a huge amount of its farmland to avoid having to actually rotate crops or have fallow periods. This means that the food supply in the US is almost entirely dependent on imported fertilizers.
Who is the largest supplier of fertilizer for the US?
Russia.
The sanctions from the biden administration doubled the price of fertilizer for big agrobusiness and there isn't enough to go around at the moment, and there won't be for the rest of this growing season. I recommend getting your grains now.
>But it's so high!
Yeah well we said get your grains in 2020 so consider that your two year late fee. Food prices will be double what they are now come October.

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tell me what to buy

And this war could have been stopped from the beginning if NATO looked for a solution with Putin instead of escalating the situation. It's all scripted anyway

also, grab a bag or two of fertilizer for your garden, ask local horse and cow owners if you can have their manure.
Wet fallow your garden soil for at least two months to avoid diseases. Use 55 gal. drums if you need a way to keep the dirt soaked.

Greens that freeze well like brussels sprouts, leafy greens in general have high nitrogen requirements. Good time to discover the joys of sauerkraut if you haven't made it before. It's easy, don't fret.

bags of flour
make sure to store so weevils don't become an issue.

>And this war could have been stopped from the beginning if NATO looked for a solution with Putin instead of escalating the situation. It's all scripted anyway
this

So far so good. Yes i'm stressed out and i hate more than half the population for what they did (vaxxies), but now we.get food shortages. The suffering begins. Well earned i must say.

It's been guaranteed since March of last year. Really for longer than that but as of March of last year the writing was on the wall. The cost of farming is completely out if sync with what cross can be sold for. And that was before the fertilizer fuckery. And then there's the drought. The time to start owning land to farm was yesterday. Get moving you simpletons.

>This means that the food supply in the US is almost entirely dependent on imported fertilizers.
If you were really an American, you'd know that was a lie. The US produces far more fertilizer than it needs and exports the rest. The only reason anybody buys low quality Russian fertilizer is because its so cheap.

Top Fertilizers Exports by Country:
Russia: US$12.5 billion (15.1% of total exported fertilizers)
China: $10.9 billion (13.3%)
Canada: $6.6 billion (8%)
Morocco: $5.7 billion (6.9%)
United States: $4.1 billion (4.9%)
Saudi Arabia: $3.6 billion (4.4%)
Netherlands: $2.9 billion (3.5%)
Belgium: $2.63 billion (3.2%)
Oman: $2.6 billion (3.1%)
Qatar: $2.2 billion (2.6%)

The US took a hit of 20% of its diammonium phosphate supplies alone from banning Russian imports and liquid nitrogen is up 210% in price, though. China put a moratorium on exporting fertilizer, too.

>Who is the largest supplier of fertilizer for the US? Russia.
In fairness the population of the US is growing because of all the Russians fleeing to America so we need more fertilizer to grow more food. Meanwhile Russia's population is plummeting and they have an overabundance of fertilizer. Also Russia invaded Ukraine like a bunch of Nazi orcs, stealing Ukraine's grain and fertilizer and selling it on the black market.

So 28% of the world's exported fertilizers aren't available and given there's multiple types of fertilizers the US is suffering a supply squeeze and have said even with the money the government is allocating to start producing more of its own fertilizer it'll take 3 to five years.

>rotate crops or have fallow periods
Doood, just stop growing plants and put animals on the land.

Read elsewhere that some US farmers tried to plant more basedbeans and less corn because of the nitrogen fertilizer shortage. Any truth to that?

Yes but it causes insurance issues also if you try tapping the same field for two crops, and basedbeans require potassium fertilizer, of which Russia produces about 40% of the world's export volume. So that's in a shortage, too.

With Nazi Russia either destroying or stealing all of Ukraine's fertilizer, there's less on the global market. Investigators suspect arson at the Winston-Salem fertilizer plant that exploded back in February.

They sell us the precursors to make a portion of said domestic fertilizers.
Either way, a huge disruption in the fertilizer market that caused its price to more than double has already effected the crops during this years planting season and is continuing to as their is a global shortage of it (so even if the average farmer could afford to use the same amount as they could last year (they can't), they would have a hard time getting it in regular intervals needed during the season). All of this means that yields are going to be significantly lower this year for most crops, but especially for corn, which has a trickle down effect of being used in everything from livestock fed to most shelfstable products needing caking agents and preservatives that need corn in their production.
Even if we were able to make 100% of our fertilizer domestically with no precursors needed from foreign nations, we are still fucked this growing season in conjunction with inflation growing at rate that is not going to end soon. There'll be trouble and hard times no matter what, there will be rationing and food shortages; and realistically it's not going to go back to normal after one bad growing season because of the cascading effects of supply chain collapses and closures/destruction of various food production/distribution centers around this country in the last year.

Potassium is more for root crop. If you want good big juicy beans, nitrogen would be the reccomendation.
Thanks for effort, but you are more proof you fucking Any Forums people run your mouth without first hand experience.
Potassium is a supporting player when it comes to bean plant growth. While it doesn't directly impact stem or root growth as phosphorus and nitrogen do, it keeps plants healthy enough to support that growth. A light feeding of compost is generally all bean plants need for adequate potassium. For infertile soils, use 5-10-10 fertilizer or add 10 pounds of ground granite or 10 pounds of greensand per 100 square feet.

I thought that we purchased much of our potassium from Canada rather than Russia. What kind of insurance issues?

Not my problem

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It's higher-risk and you'll have a harder time insuring the second crop because of the greater failure odds. Also the problem with Russia getting sanctioned is that everybody is required to get considerably pricier with their exports. Canada and Russia together produce something like 4/5's of the potassium fertilizer in the world. Russia's an enormous supplier even though Canada has its own, it's suddenly a lot more expensive when the other major producer is out of the market.

What would you recommend that anons do now to help us get through the next 15 months? Can we prepare now to plant a garden next spring?