| Show Ag chemical shortages could grow grov US U.S. farmers will iII face even more more mor acute shortages of fertilizers and other agricultural chemicals unless ss positive government programs are adopted to significantly increase natural gas reserves according to 10 toan tonn an nn Amoco Oil Company farm chemicals e expert The demand for fertilizer a R natural nat ural gas end product has increased because of the increasing demand r 4 fur for American C foods l JI but u the Ih supplies tip sup plies of bf nah uY jj ai a h lit V fl not Mt bL Wen en enable able tl to keep up Archer W. W I Logan Amoco Oil Oils Oil's s pesticide Ie Ii merchandising ing manager said lit in a recent speech to the Nati National nal Corn Growers Gro A n. n For or the time being at nt lea least t the days lire are gone when you could apply apply ap op ply almost almot unlimited amounts of 01 fertilizer to increase e crop crol yield yields yields- because it was cheap and plentiful Logan Said aid The same sane is true for pesticides and propane because e these end products of natural gas are also becoming increasingly hard to get 1 The he nation has the capability and resources to 10 intensify the search for new domestic natural gas reserves and to develop additional supplies J ho he said lint Hut lo to do lIc it it the govern meet ment must remove the he n g ga gal that thai ha line kept prices front from responding to 1 the lh natural forces of lIf supply and demand If you expect that the price rice of ot n a bushel hushel of corn will vill be he down when hen it 1 comes conies time to 10 sell Logan told the formers farmers you ou have no nl Incentive to 10 increase your crop yields Why buy more fertilizer convert more morea a acres to production or drill for more natural gas gns if the price youre you're going to 10 get I isn't nt n a fair one one logar urged that Federal Power Commission price restraints be removed re moved immediately and that natural natural nat ural gas be he allowed to rise to its competitive price with other fuels in the market place placer |
