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

Better Farming - January 2010