Kansas farmers need relief from fertilizer duties | Opinion

Countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer imports, imposed in 2021, have significantly increased costs for farmers. The author argues these duties have led to higher food prices for consumers and forced farmers to alter their planting decisions. A recent move to reduce some agricultural tariffs is seen as a positive step, but the core fertilizer duties remain. Growing up in Kansas, you learn early that agriculture is not a job. It is a life. You depend on the things you cannot control, like the weather and global markets, and you do your best to manage the things you can. But in…