I don't know if you all have heard that the price of N fertilizer is
supposed to double in 2008 over what it was last year. Some of it will be
demand for corn for ethanol production (which only comes even close to being
profitable due to US govt subsidies) but my son tells me that the real
problem is that we are running out of natural gas.
In light of this info, I had assumed that there would be a sudden rush
toward organic agriculture by any farmers leaning in that direction, and the
rest of them deciding they needed to grow more beans. If this article is
true, that common pesticides stop N fixation, it's going to throw a monkey
wrench in the system.