Fertilizer
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China’s Fertilizer Restrictions and the Crisis of American Agricultural Imperialism
The recent tightening of Chinese export controls on nitrogen-potassium fertilizer blends—compounded by Beijing’s reiteration of existing restrictions on urea—represents more than a routine trade policy adjustment. It constitutes a significant structural intervention in the global agricultural commodity chain, one that lays bare the precarious foundations of American agricultural imperialism and the sharpening contradictions of the… Continue reading
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 US-Israeli strikes on Iran could trigger a global famine
The timing of the US-Israeli attack on Iran “literally could not be worse” for the fertilizer industry, StoneX Group brokerage VP Josh Linville told Bloomberg, alluding to the imminent start of the Northern Hemisphere’s growing season, and problems shortages of the key farming ingredient could cause. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 