Posted: 4/2/2012 6:35:47 PM EDT
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As an old retired farmer, I just about cry when I see the prices a farming family has to pay today just to get a crop in. bad enough that gasoline and diesel are climbing out of sight; $4 fuel in a 250 gal tank is $1000 burned up real quick. how's the next generation going to get by with these prices? it's going to be tough.
“Farmers are also really concerned with the uptick in fertilizer prices over the past three weeks,” he said. “Urea in our area is at $690 ton, up $175 ton in 30 days. The other sources, phosphorous and potash, are up to $650 ton, which is $150 ton higher than last year.”
The "Ouch!" Heard 'round the Delta 
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I've been around the financial side of farming my whole life.
Prices have gotten outrageous in the past 10 years. A brand new farmer would need upwards of 1mil to buy land, equipment and seed/chemicals/fert. Even renting land and equipment puts you way over what you're going to get back for the first few years.  
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