Criminal price gouging? The farming fertilizer crisis

and raises cattle.

He said the price of anhydrous ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer was $490 per metric ton in 2021. By March, that figure had more than doubled, rising to $1,150 per metric ton.

Lillibridge said his farm requires approximately 118 tons of nitrogen fertilizer to grow a single crop — a cost he calculated in real time.

“So on my farm we’re continue reading …