The ceasefire changes nothing about what hits your grocery bill this fall.
Twenty-one ships are sitting in the Persian Gulf right now. They aren't moving. They're carrying nearly a million metric tons of fertilizer. And American farmers needed that fertilizer last week. | I can't stop thinking about this. Everyone is watching oil prices and cheering the peace rally. The S&P climbed 2.9% yesterday. The Nasdaq had its best day of the year. And almost nobody is connecting any of it to your grocery bill six months from now. | I get it. The relief feels real. Trump promised a pullback in two to three weeks. Crude fell. Markets roared. The story writes itself. | Here's what worries me. Fertilizer isn't oil. There are no strategic reserves. When the oil supply gets hit, governments crack open the emergency stockpile. When the fertilizer supply gets hit, there is no backup. None. The pipeline is the supply. | Elon Musk's Crazy Prediction: 1,000X Your Money | | Elon Musk is predicting this investment could jump 1,000x higher from here. | That turns $100 into $100,000… | $500 into half a million dollars… | And a tiny stake of $1,000 into $1 million. | Click here to get the details because this could be the best investment opportunity of the decade. | Urea prices are up as much as 50% since the war started February 28. That cost lands on a farmer who was already stretched thin. | And the calendar doesn't care about ceasefire talks. Farmers order fertilizer in March to put it in the ground in April and May. That window is closing right now. Even if the Strait opened tomorrow — today — it would still take weeks to restart production and move product through the system. Farmers plant on a schedule. The crop doesn't wait for shipping delays to sort themselves out. | The president of the South Carolina Farm Bureau said farmers may not be able to finance planting their crop this season. Think about that sentence. Not "they'll plant less." Not "yields might dip." They may not be able to plant at all. | I don't think most people realize how fast the math turns ugly. Corn acreage in 2026 is already projected to fall to 93 million acres. That's down from 99 million last year. Farmers are shifting away from nitrogen-hungry crops because nitrogen costs too much. Less corn planted this spring means less corn at the store this fall. Wolfe Research puts the hit to "food-at-home" inflation at roughly 2 percentage points. That's on top of everything else already squeezing your grocery budget. | Nobody knows exactly how bad the harvest will be. I won't pretend otherwise. Weather matters. Substitution happens. Farmers are resourceful people. But the fertilizer window closes whether the diplomats shake hands or not. The lag between a missed spring planting and a higher grocery bill is six to nine months. That clock started running in February. | There's one more piece to this that I keep coming back to. Russia's fertilizer infrastructure runs completely outside the Strait of Hormuz. While our farmers scramble, importers in Nigeria and Ghana are already signing long-term contracts with Moscow for third-quarter delivery. Russia isn't missing a shipment. Russia is winning new customers. Permanently. This conflict is quietly handing them a bigger share of the global food supply, and the peace rally doesn't change that either. | Private Credit on Your Terms | | Percent's secondary marketplace lets accredited investors buy into eligible deals or indicate interest in selling existing positions. Secondary market access in private credit is still rare. 16.72% current weighted average coupon. Terms start at 3 months. New investors can receive up to $500 credit. | See how it works. | Alternative investments are speculative. Secondary liquidity not guaranteed. Past performance not indicative. Terms apply. | Here's the number I keep repeating: a million metric tons. That's what's stuck on those 21 ships. Stuck. Past the planting window. Already too late for millions of acres of American farmland. | The grocery shock is already baked in. It just hasn't arrived at your store yet. Picture those 21 ships sitting still in the Gulf — engines off, fertilizer in the hold — while the planting season closes behind them like a door. That's what the rally didn't price in. That's what lands in your cart this fall. | More on this tomorrow. | — Lauren
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