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The High Costs of Growing Corn: How Growers are Squeezed by High Input Prices That Are Set by the Fertilizer Oligopoly


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In this podcast, AAI President Diana Moss talks with two experts in the agriculture sector about corn, a leading U.S. crop. Many farmers bow face serious margin "squeezes." They pay higher and higher prices to oligopolies and cartels for inputs that are necessary to grow their commodities. But growers then sell into markets where commodity prices are often controlled by only a few firms, such as in proteins, or are subject to the significant vagaries of price fluctuations. This episode of Ruled by Reason will focus on how corn growers are paying high input costs, especially for fertilizer. Economic studies, including a recent one authored by a guest on this podcast, reveal serious concerns about high fertilizer prices. These prices have been set for years by a small group of global fertilizer producers that likely coordinate, rather than compete. Anticompetitive fertilizer prices hurt corn growers and consumers, and imperil the stability and integrity of a vital agricultural supply chain.

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