Strait of Hormuz crisis drives up fertilizer prices for Valley County farmers

Strait of Hormuz crisis drives up fertilizer prices for Valley County farmers

For Jeff Pattison, agriculture is more than a profession – it's an identity and a way of life. A third-generation Valley County farmer whose grandparents immigrated from Norway, homesteading at Opheim more than a century ago, Pattison – a former state legislator who runs Pattison Land & Livestock in Glasgow – says farming has "been in our blood, in our livelihood here for a long time...