Fertilizers

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that the USDA and other agencies are working on short-term measures to help lower fertilizer costs and that an announcement could come soon. She said addressing fertilizer prices will require a significant, coordinated...

Kansas State University economist Gregg Ibendahl warns that rising oil prices are already pushing key farm input costs higher, and could add significant expense for grain operations this year. Ibendahl estimated that a move to $90 per barrel of oil would add more than $1 per gallon at the pump an...

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has stepped up investigations across agriculture, with a heavy focus on meatpacking and other concentrated input markets. Investigators are examining how fed cattle supplies are gathered and routed through the industry, and whether major packers...