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spring planting economics
What looked like a normal start to spring has turned into a full farm-country gamble as rising Middle East tensions, volatile grain markets and higher fuel and fertilizer costs force growers to rethink every acre, every pass and every hoped-for payoff.
By
Juan Manuel Garro
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April 6, 2026
Spring planting just turned into a nerve-racking global math problem as DTN says farmers from Ontario to India are reworking fertilizer, fuel and yield plans while bombs still fall across the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz stays effectively shut.
By
Juan Manuel Garro
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April 5, 2026
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Ground beef hit $6.86/lb in March, and ranchers say prices won’t fall soon
Corn doubled to 25% in one week, the fastest spring planting surge in years
The House froze Tuesday and a King’s visit made everything worse
Phosphate up 200%, nitrogen up 30%: Rollins bets big on US fertilizer
$9.6 billion sent to farmers, and all 9 major crops are still losing money
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