President Donald Trump’s plan for tariffs on three of the US’s largest agriculture trading partners have produce growers ringing alarm bells that fertilizer costs will spike before prime planting season.
Canada—most imports from which face a 25% tax starting Tuesday—supplies about 80% of a key fertilizer ingredient used to grow US crops including potatoes, lettuce, tobacco, avocados, peaches, and legumes, according to the Agriculture Department.
“You’re talking about, you know, a big portion of cost of production of commodity crops, so it could be—it could be devastating” for farmers, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said in an ...