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Fertilizer prices are soaring – and that's an opportunity to promote more sustainable ways of growing crops

  • Written by Kathleen Merrigan, Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
Fertilizer prices are soaring – and that's an opportunity to promote more sustainable ways of growing cropsA farmer spreads fertilizer on a field in Berks County, Pa.Harold Hoch/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices and industry consolidation. The price of synthetic fertilizer has more than doubled since 2021, causing great stress in farm country.

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