As the Fertilizer Crisis Bites, Farmers Take Drastic Steps

  • Expensive, scarce fertilizers disrupt European farmers’ plans
  • Energy crunch has shut fertilizer plants across Europe

Cows graze on wheat straw in a cattle shed on a dairy farm in Vetschau, Germany.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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Ditching oilseed crops for peas, preparing to cut herds and splashing out on tractor gadgets. That’s what European farmers are doing to try to cope with a worsening fertilizer crisis.