The Year for Victory Gardens
The Year for Victory Gardens Barring some major changes in direction, 2022 is the year for town people to plant victory gardens, and this is the year for operators of small farms to produce all they can. Why is that? Farm income has been down for years because the prices of food commodities (at least in the United States) have been different. But 2022 is looking different for many reasons. The year started with rising costs for natural gas, and with that, rising costs and shortages of ammonia fertilizers made using natural gas; consequently, less fertilizer applied will mean decreased food production. Then, Russia invaded Ukraine, and much of Europe and North America are shutting down trade with Russia. That has caused three major problems: (1) Efforts to stifle Russian trade have increased oil and natural-gas prices even more (further increasing fertilizer and agriculture operations costs); (2) Russia...