As spring planting season begins, Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with David Bowen, a fourth-generation farmer in Mississippi who is concerned that if the war with Iran continues, he won’t be able to buy enough fertilizer. Roughly one-third of the world’s fertilizer ingredients are shipped through the nearly-closed Strait of Hormuz.
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