Global fertiliser shortage looming

MOTORISTS and transport operators may be complaining about the cost of fuel at the pumps with prices now in the region of


Farmers are just about managing to survive with higher fuel costs which have seen “red diesel,” now priced at over 60p per litre. But the same cannot be said for the cost of chemical fertilisers where demand and supply are currently miles out of balance.

Calum Findlay, a trader with the Lincolnshire based firm of Gleadell, which is one of the leading players in the UK market, is always close to market realities.

Speaking exclusively to The Scotsman yesterday, he said: “It is really quite frightening from the farmer’s perspective. Granular urea