{"id":149472,"date":"2026-04-10T19:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149472"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:11:24","slug":"high-fertiliser-prices-mean-more-soybeans-for-farmers-and-greater-reliance-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149472","title":{"rendered":"High fertiliser prices mean more soybeans for farmers \u2013 and greater reliance on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJeff Winton, a dairy farmer in upstate New York who grows much of the feed for his own cattle, stopped planting corn in 2022 when fertiliser prices spiked. \u201cWe just couldn\u2019t afford the input costs,\u201d he recalled.<br \/>\nThe surge began after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine disrupted exports of nitrogen, urea and other key fertiliser nutrients, with Russia, alongside its ally Belarus, among the world\u2019s leading suppliers.<br \/>\nAs the war in Ukraine entered its fourth year, a separate conflict involving the US,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3349712\/high-fertiliser-prices-mean-more-soybeans-farmers-and-greater-reliance-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJeff Winton, a dairy farmer in upstate New York who grows much of the feed for his own cattle, stopped planting corn in 2022&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}