Protectionism fractures the global fertilizer market
The guest argued that rising government intervention and export restrictions are structurally undermining free-market efficiency in agriculture.
The argument
Nations like China and Egypt are restricting fertilizer exports to keep domestic prices low and appease local populations. This shift toward protectionism prevents the free market from naturally balancing global supply and demand, leading to localized shortages and inefficiencies.
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"But I can tell you, I think that this is gonna have impacts on pricing and supply at least in the spring of twenty seven. I think this is something we're gonna be struggling through for a very long time. Yeah. And I think that's the worry from people who really closely track these markets as you do, because I've heard it echoed in other parts of the commodity market that it's sort of given investors a a sense of complacency or false sense of security that, oh, these economies are resilient. They find workarounds. There are workarounds when actually it's it's sort of barring from the future, you know, using these cushions until they're and then you don't have that anymore."
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