Northeast Indiana farmer Brian Warpup was happy to hear Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack talk about creating new market opportunities in his speech at the Commodity Classic in Orlando.
Warpup, who raises 3,500 acres of corn and soybeans in Huntington and Wells counties, was elected to the Indiana Soybean Alliance board of directors last year.
He spoke with AgriNews after Vilsack addressed the convention’s record-breaking crowd of more than 10,200 attendees.
What do you think of the ag secretary’s plan to increase domestic fertilizer production capacity?
“With the fertilizer prices in the last year, we had a major increase, double, triple. And I think from what I took from today is trying to get more domesticated a little bit, so we maybe have a little more control over those fluctuations, those highs and those lows in fertilizer prices.
“So, maybe give the United States a little more control, so those inputs aren’t so drastic, which if our inputs go up, our products go up, and since we’re trying to feed the world, food goes up.”
Source: agrinews-pubs.com
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