Indiana Prairie Farmer
Jim Mintert called the quick, extreme rise in recent fertilizer prices unprecedented. And he used that term in mid-November, realizing fertilizer prices may go higher, if you can even get it.
“The last time fertilizer prices shot up and were relatively high versus historic levels was 2013,” says Mintert, a Purdue University Extension ag economist and director of the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture. “This quick rise went much higher and blew right by what happened in 2013.”