Just like motorists filling up their cars with gas, orchardists are experiencing sticker shock as they buy their fertilizers and agricultural chemicals. Greg Rosenau, purchasing manager with Northwest Wholesale, Inc., in Wenatchee, Washington, said the price of a 46-0-0 urea fertilizer, for example, has risen more than 25 percent in less than a year, and he expects prices to continue to rise. It’s all related to supply and demand on a global basis, he said. Over the past few years, there’s been a huge demand for fertilizers in China. About three years ago, Rosenau heard of an incident where barges […]