people are focusing upon the price of this. But the really important point is this, the straight of Ham. So, oil, fertilizer , helium all have to pass through the straight of Ham and Iran have blocked that gap.So, they can say you do or do not pass depending on your country's attitude towards our country. And that's quite terrifying because 20 to 30% of our
So, they can say you do or do not pass depending on your country's attitude towards our country. And that's quite terrifying because 20 to 30% of our fertilizer comes through at this point.But if this is not available, the globe has a famine.
significant crop failures in multiple parts of the world, which is maybe even more possible because there's a kind of fertilizer shortage as a result of the war in Iran.You know, we probably will be able to respond to that such that 10 or 15 million people don't die. But there will
The value, to the United States, of these applications has been calibrated about five years ago. Fertilizer and chemicals in the United States-- this, I think, is three years ago-- $38 billion.
And the entire infrastructure of this civilization is embedded in the carbon deposits of the Jurassic Age. Our agricultural food is grown in petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides. Almost all of our pharmaceutical products are still fossil-fuel-based. Most of our clothes.The entire construction infrastructure of civilization is fossil-fuel-based.
leverage in shutting down such a critical piece of uh water for, you know, shipping fertilizer , energy, etc. You think that they would have known this. Right, so that's what a lot of people say, that Trump's stupid, that Trump is hot-headed, that he was misled by the
It's a whole range of crops. We eat food, okay? We eat this green stuff. It actually starts as brown stuff because the fertilizer is an essential part of growing all the food we eat. And the fertilizer is produced by a process called the habber bosch process which takes petroleum and nitrogen and fixes them in such a way that you can put this
livestock into arable and horicultural livestock into arable and horicultural landscapes so that you're not reliant on landscapes so that you're not reliant on imported fertilizer uh and uh all the imported fertilizer uh and uh all the rest of that. And all of that will come rest of that. And all of that will come uh with a cost a cost in terms of yields
In other countries, food security is at the highest levels ever in history. So fertilizer is extremely important across the globe. We invest about 3% of the world's entire energy output in fertilizer production.
as well. We don't know yet what's going to happen in the United States. So fertilizer use per ton of production is down dramatically.
And then we had this little color-coded guide that we tacked to the inside of the coop to tell which chicken was which. So, here are the benefits of keeping chickens. They're great fertilizer . This is-- can you guys see that OK? It looks kind of dark. The chickens live in a coop over wire, and so they poop onto burlap bags that my friend Terry lays underneath the coop.
By using the micro-irrigation systems, the farmers would be able to provide more crop per drop, and also were groomed into better utilization of fertilizers . Not just that he wanted the farmers to get into the global food value system, value chain, so he ensured that you purchase the products that the farmers make in the form of concentrated and dehydrated products, vegetables, fruits.
Things like bringing in symbiotic plants and animals to augment the growing conditions of the grapes instead of using artificial elements-- things like fertilizers and pesticides. So we have these really great, sustainable, delicious grapes that are turned into a wine, as Randall puts it, with minimal human intervention.
reproductive patterns for fish biofuels run off is a major issue as we grow biofuels from corn for example and we add fertilizers or nitrogen lated components they flood into the waters and give it a lot of nutrients and pollution oil spills certainly make the news every time you see a picture of a bird wrapped up in oil and then chemical
country's attitude towards our country. You said fertilizer . Yeah. Oil and helium. Yeah. Helium.
Yeah. How are potato chips going to be impacted by the water? Because the fertilizer . If we don't have the fertilizer , we can't grow the potatoes. And it's not just potatoes. It's a whole range of crops. We eat food, okay? We eat this green stuff. It actually starts as brown stuff because
suffering from. You can't make fertilizer , which which everybody will suffer from. If we lost 20% of the world's fertilizer , we'd lose roughly 20% of the world's food. And it cause a global famine. We've never had this experience before. We've had localized famines. You know, countries like India have had famines in parts of Africa and so on. But if this is not available, the
Child support payments-- this guy, stay away from this guy. And this is the fertilizer industry.
Child support payments-- this guy, stay away from this guy. to create fertilizer . Mother Nature does it for free at room temperature.
Why do we spend so much energy? Because we produce fertilizer using an old technique from 1909. Bacteria can accomplish the same goal much more efficiently.
But now let's add on the main inputs to agriculture. This is what total fertilizer use in America looks like. This is not fertilizer use per acre.
This is what total fertilizer use in America looks like. This is not fertilizer use per acre. This is total fertilizer use in the country.
This is not fertilizer use per acre. This is total fertilizer use in the country. It used to go up in lockstep with our crop tonnage.
Anybody see the problem happen in Amazon right before Christmas, their little recommendation engine, the little problem that showed up in "The New York Times"? If you like fertilizer , you might like black powder and ball bearings, right? The notion is technology is powerful.
Two is the fertilizer effect, so this is the plant growth promoting aspect of CO2.
instead of working with fertilizer and extracting from the soil.
rude livestock feed fertilizer and they're being renamed and fed to you so you don't know you're eating 450 million
So why nitrogen fertilizer ?
Plant food or fertilizer for tomatoes.
I hated fertilizer . My grandmother used to make me polish eggs.
Because all that fertilizer comes down the Mississippi River.
that require fertilizer and chemicals.
But the chemical fertilizer did not exist, either.
But with water and fertilizer they can grow tomatoes.
you know fertilizers pesticides you know other things in a way in which the farmer wants to utilize them right in order to grow his income. So similarly here it basically means going
Child support payments-- this guy, stay away from this guy. Mother Nature creates fertilizers for free.
dependant on these chemical fertilizers . But anyhow, so they came out with this weed killer
We're not looking at fertilizer . We're not looking at helium. We're not looking at long-term food, any of that. We're not looking at the direct cost of the
costs all over the world for fertilizer , food, helium, um petrochems, plastics. I
elements of the production system are being terminated by this conflict. You can't produce chips anymore. And you can't Well, you got hang on. You can't produce these chips either because the fertilizer is disappearing. So, you're holding a potato in your hand.
budget and rises in fuel and fertilizer costs because of the conflicts in Ukraine, Iran, and the Middle East. Now,
I'm just purchasing my own fertilizer , and the orange peels are also a great natural plant pest repellent.
This is a small number because most farmers don't want to have to stick to the very strict organic rule against using any synthetic nitrogen fertilizer . A lot of consumers favor organic because they think there'll be fewer pesticide residues on organic produce.
later the development of synthetic fertilizer , the cultivation of vigorous hybrids in the Green Revolution, transportation networks
They want to use natural fertilizer instead of fish fertilizer .
And so if I need to buy fertilizer or somebody got sick, that will be my bank.
They existed long before we had fertilizer , plants building all of this chemical processes.
We've only had this synthetic fertilizer since the early 20th century.
So this was an alternative to chemical fertilizer .
You want the numbers on that fertilizer bag to be more similar than they are disparate, right?