Follow this link to read this Times.co.uk article on the effect of the Russia Ukraine war on global fertilizer and food supply:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cb821442-a306-11ec-b670-edca588c9993?shareToken=39df6b13c3ad0897a623bed969045deb

The cost of fertiliser, essential for growing crops and grass for cattle and lambs, has quadrupled in the past year from about £250 a tonne to nearer to £1,000. Farmers told The Times that some fertiliser merchants had temporarily closed their order books because of a lack of supply while others were rationing the amount that they could buy.