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Does anyone have a clue why we've suddenly run into fertiliser shortages? I feel like fertiliser and food demands should be fairly slow-moving? Not going up 3x
by Incipient 5y ago
Does anyone have a clue why we've suddenly run into fertiliser shortages? I feel like fertiliser and food demands should be fairly slow-moving? Not going up 3x in the space of 18mo.
- pas 5y agoPrice of inputs increased. Logistic network efficiency fell, delays, ports, trucks, COVID increased labor and other costs. That said, who knows. It's a complex system, cascading failures are common. Maybe the demand shock of the pandemic (restaurants cancelled orders, farmers cut back demand for fertilizer, factories predicted big demand decrease, but that was successfully "worked around" by government intervention, now the demand is higer than estimated, plus the aforementioned other factors.)