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New Southern Plains Perspective Blog Talks about Climate Change and High Input Costs
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:39:26 CDT
There's a new blog up at Southern Plains Perspective focusing on climate change and high input costs.
When you work on climate change issues and agriculture, you never know what you're going to get hit with when you go to the coffee shop.
Case in point Just the other day, I was at a gathering of some of my fellow agricultural types and was hit with a pointed question; "Why in the world should we be worried about all this climate change stuff with everything else going on? Have you priced fertilizer or fuel lately and I don't even know if I can get glyphosate?"
Points well taken.
It is kinda crazy right now gas prices alone have gone up over 50% from this time last year. Diesel has seen a similar increase. Fertilizer prices aren't any better. A recent Texas A & M study found that the cost of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers more than doubled between 2020 and 2021. And nitrogen, which accounts for more than 50% of the commercial fertilizer farmers use, is expected to see price increases in 2022 of more than 80% from the previous year.
Not good.
No doubt farmers and ranchers have a lot of unexpected challenges on their plate right now. We were already seeing challenges with inputs resulting from the aftermath of the covid pandemic before international markets got turned on their ear by the war in Ukraine. It's easy to see why folks could take the position that they have more important things to deal with than climate change-but they would be looking at this all wrong.
You can read the full blog here:
https://southernplainsperspective.wordpress.com/2022/03/21/what-should-we-focus-on-high-input-costs-or-dealing-with-climate-change-why-not-do-both/
or you can read all our blogs, listen to our podcasts and watch our videos at:
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