Ping.
Currently, nitrogen (for green growth) has tripled in price, while potash and phosphorus for flowering/ fruit set) has doubled in price, and it isn't even planting season yet !
What happens when the civilian population and farms and farmers of Ukraine have been ethnically cleansed and eliminated during an invasion ?
Who is then going to provide the food and grains that Europe and the Near East have counted on for generations,
after a barbaric scorched earth, ethnic cleansing policy during the Russian invasion ?
Now, ..consider growing food crops without fertilizer, or fertilizer that will bankrupt the small farmer,
but will benefit only the mega-agriculture conglomerates who will pass along the additional expenses.
Grow a "Victory Garden" on your own, even on small containers if need be; or see how England prospered during WWII,
or even how those overcame the "Great Depression " of the 1930's.
Buy seeds that are 'indeterminate', so that you will have food growing and harvesting during the entire growing season, or just grow 5 Zucchinis plants.
As FReepers, we even have access to our own "Gardening Forum" every Saturday, with Dianna in Wisconsin which is open to everyone from 'rookie', or "black thumb'
all the way to Master Gardener, where there is no question about gardening that won't be helped, or answered.
Start your on "Victory Garden" to cut your food expenses and develop an additional survival skill.
Also, encourage your neighbor to go for survival gardening, because it makes sense .
And Remember above all else :" Let's go Brandon !"