BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 15, 2022
Fertilizer prices have doubled over the past year and promise to double again by next year’s growing season, the result of multiple factors from geopolitics to supply chain issues driving up costs and uncertainty for farmers in Maine and around the world. Fertilizer dealers said sanctions on Russia are already starting to pinch the fertilizer supply. Daniel Corey, CEO of Daniel J. Corey Farms in Monticello, and others worry about the U.S. reliance on foreign goods like fertilizer that are so key to its economy and about the potential for food shortages.