There are products that come out of the Persian Gulf that our farmers back here in the United States and around the world depend on to fertilize crops. Obviously, it's planting season, so if you can't get fertilizer up and out, number one, The price of fertilizer that we do have in this country has gone through the roof. It's become really hard for farmers to afford it and to predict how expensive it's going to go. And then, number two, around the world, there's plenty of places that have already started to plant and they're just not using fertilizer. (04:53–04:58)
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