Seed Bed: Avoiding the pitfalls posed by ‘cheap’ fertilizer
With last year’s fall in fertilizer prices, it’s important to guard against overuse that can hurt your fields, your pocketbook and the environment
by KEITH REID
For the first time in my memory, we are dealing with fertilizer prices that are less than half of the previous year’s values. The fact that this follows two years of unprecedented increases in fertilizer prices, or that the prices are still higher than they were four or five years ago, is immaterial.
It feels like fertilizer is inexpensive