Source: Bob Kemerait, FARM PROGRESS, 3/23/22


Even before war in Ukraine began, the 2022 cropping season was shaping up to be a difficult one in the Southeast. Rising fertilizer prices and increased costs of other inputs coupled with restricted availability of fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides meant farmers already faced significant challenges.  Rising fuel prices will make a tough situation even more difficult. As this tragedy grows ever darker, the Russian invasion will undoubtedly affect our lives and our country in ways that we cannot yet imagine.  There will be impact on American agriculture and American farmers, not the least of which will be sorrow felt in kinship with the farmers and their families in Ukraine.

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