On Jan 7, 10:08 am, Phisherman wrote:
I checked out the "turf builder" fertilizers at the BORG. A Lesco bag
of fertilizer that covers 12,000 sq feet is $57. I would need 3 bags
to cover the lawn, so with tax that runs $190. Last year it was less
than $60. Most of the bags were covered with bird crap on them and
had holes large enough to spill out the contents. I guess nobody else
is buying either.

Half a year ago when commodity Price was very high, I read an article
about the price of fertilizer that are from mineral would go up
because there were only a few places that exported one of the
fertilizer component (the word "Russian company" somehow comes to my
mind). This creates a semi-monoply situation. And they were talking
about double or triple the price of that fertilizer component.

I think the article was about the price of potassium if I remember
this correctly. Regardless which mineral we are talking about here, I
would assume that their price should have come down along with the
other commodities, right? If this is not the case, I don't know --
may be the store is selling their old stocks based on the old purchase
price.

Anyway, I will not be surprise to see fertilizer price goes up.
Considering the fact that people in the world want to eat better. And
the green revolution requires the use of large amount of fertilizer.
Now I hear about bringing green revolution to African countries. This
is a good thing for hungry people in that continent. But there is
obviously a good chance that the use of mineral based fertilizer will
also go up despite how many times people say they want to use
organic. Therefore, fertilizer price probably will go up. In
addition to this, the purchase power of US dollars will come down if
the huge spending program is approved in US. These will all affect
the price of fertilizer.

Seem like this is a good time to go organic, and this is exactly what
I am trying to do with the use of composts, chicken manure...etc.

Jay Chan