[ [link removed] ]Francesca Hong for Governor[ [link removed] ]Francesca Hong for Governor
Jack,
Just as Wisconsin farmers are getting ready to plant, the price of
fertilizer is spiking because of an illegal war.
Urea — the most common nitrogen fertilizer — is up 25% since the end of
February. Diesel is climbing. And because the Strait of Hormuz is
effectively shut down, a third of the world's fertilizer trade is stuck on
the water.
A Waukesha County farmer told [ [link removed] ]FOX6 yesterday: "I don't get a check
every week. I don't get that check until I sell that product. And I don't
know what that cost is going to be. But I know that fertilizers are going
to cost me more, seed's going to cost me more, fuel is going to cost me
more.”
Here's what that means for the rest of us: Fertilizer goes up. Farmers cut
back or eat the loss. And by late summer, we’re paying more for staples
like milk, bread and meat — for everything that has to be grown and
everything that has to be shipped.
Nationally, analysts say farmers may shift over a million acres from corn
to soybeans this spring because corn takes too much fertilizer to pencil
out. Wisconsin planted 3.75 million acres of corn last year, most of it
feed for our dairy herds. Less corn means higher feed costs. Higher feed
costs mean higher milk prices.
This war is costing Wisconsin — it’s already hitting us at the gas pump,
and soon it will be impacting us at the grocery checkout. The question is,
who will be hit hardest? Right now, it's farmers and working families. It
doesn't have to be this way.
We must end this disastrous war. And at home, we must create a tax system
where wealthy people and corporations pay their share, so family farmers
and working people aren't carrying the load alone. And we need a governor
who shows up in every county and listens to the people who grow our food.
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In solidarity,
Fran
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