Fertilizer costs double in past few years

Journal Gazette | 01/12/2006 | Limit fertilizer to control costs, farmers urged:
by Jenni Glenn
"Fertilizer prices have nearly doubled in the past two to three years, said Lynn Reinhart, a DeKalb County farmer who raises crops on about 1,400 acres of land. The price of natural gas, a key ingredient in nitrogen fertilizer, is rising and fueling the high cost of fertilizer. Reinhart expects to pay about 35 cents a pound for the cheapest type of nitrogen fertilizer, anhydrous ammonia, this year."