What also happened that year is in the areas where there were good rains, and where farmers had previously produced surplus grain, farmers had decided to withdraw from the fertilizer market, not use fertilizer and actually had dropped their use of fertilizer by 27 percent.
Co se také toho roku přihodilo bylo, že v oblastech s dostatkem dešťů, kde dříve vyprodukovali nadbytek obilí, se farmáři rozhodli vypustit používání hnojiv. Vlastní spotřeba hnojiv se snížila o 27%,