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Farm prices through the roof; can farmers bear the load?

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John Taylor walked into the Washington County Farmer’s Co-op last week to buy fertilizer for his crops, only to find that he could no longer afford it.

The bag of 19-19-19 fertilizer he purchased last year at $9.50 is now over $20. If he were to put an average of 300 pounds of fertilizer on each acre of his farm, that would come to about $112 an acre just to get the soil ready for planting. More...

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