The tide began to turn late in 2008. As prices for corn, soybeans and other commodities declined by as much as 50 percent from their summer highs, and the price of natural gas (which typically accounts for 80 to 90 percent of input costs for anhydrous ammonia) followed suit, wholesale fertilizer prices dropped for the first time in six years, according to the American farm Bureau Federation. Anhydrous ammonia, which had sold for $1,000 to $1,200 per ton, fell into the $500-per-ton range, while urea dropped from $850 to $350 a ton.

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