5 June, 2022
Just ask Rachael Sharp, a third-generation farmer in the US state of South Carolina, who grows a varied mix of soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, peanuts and oats.
She saw fertiliser prices for her crops soar 320% last year - the sharpest rise that she, or her father, can remember.
Ms Sharp says some of her fellow farmers aren’t planting anything due to the excessive costs. Around the world, prices of fertiliser has been breaking records over the past year, amid extreme weather, transport disruptions, and now the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia, which is contending with Western sanctions, produces large quantities of key chemicals used in the production of fertiliser. - BBC