Midwestern flooding is making fertilizer logistics a real challenge this spring. Kathy Mathers with The Fertilizer Institute in Washington says river and rail transportation channels have been damaged which has slowed movement of product.
She says the weather all the way back to last fall limited the fertilizer farmers could apply. Now planting delays are compounding the problem and creating a bottleneck with producers all needing product at the same time.
Mather says fertilizer prices were also up last fall and that trend has continued.
She says the prices are function of strong demand for fertilizer products in the U.S. and globally.
