By Mary Hightower
U of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
An increase in fertilizer prices in the Mid-South is driven more by a demand from the increase in corn acres than tariffs, economists with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture said.
U.S. corn acres are expected to increase 4.73 million acres this year, according to the Prospective Plantings survey from the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
“That equates to a total of 95.3 million acres, which would be the highest since 2013 and third highest since the 1940s,” said Scott Stiles, extension economics program associate for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.