Facing High Fertilizer Costs, Farmers Still Struggle to Use Less

Photo caption: Matthew Backer wears a gas mask as he spreads anhydrous ammonia onto a field on April 4 at Wise Bros Inc. in Kingdom City, Mo. Photo Credit: Kate Cassady / Columbia Missourian. Article by Bailey Becker, Columbia Missourian. Modern Farmer – June 06, 2023. Article originally published in the Columbia Missourian.

As a young boy in the late 1950s, Frank Glenn knew the soft, freshly-tilled brown dirt lining his family’s fields signaled the start of another planting season. “Back when we were young buckaroos, we would plow and disc and get a crop of weeds to come up [and then] knock them down,” Glenn said. Frank and his younger brother John would hop on the tractor and start pulling their blue plow through the fields in February and March. Then they would go back with a tiller and turn over the topsoil before planting corn, soybeans, wheat and oats. […]

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