Most crop farmers will be paying more for their seed, chemicals, and fertilizer this year.

Iowa Soybean Association president Jeff Jorgenson, who farms in southwest Iowa, says he was fortunate to get a lot of fertilizer applied last fall.

“We did a lot of ours ourselves, we bought last fall and a lot of guys did (also). But some of those products are almost double what they were not six months ago.”

He tells Brownfield it’s not surprising that input costs have followed commodity prices higher.

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