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Early fertilizer buy saves Minnesota farmer from price spike pain

A southwest Minnesota farmer is relieved he doesn’t need to pay for anymore fertilizer for his 2026 crop.

George Goblish grows corn and soybeans near Vesta.

“With fertilizer prices, I’m sure glad I put everything on last fall and paid for it last fall. Because boy if I had to go to the coop now, it would be a tough conversation if I wanted to plant corn.”

He calls current fertilizer prices “outrageously high.”

“And you can’t pencil it out with the prices. So the good thing is probably more soybeans will probably be planted, but you hate to screw up your rotation just because of economics.”

Goblish is a district director on the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council.