CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) -- You may have noticed that the fields look cleared out for the season, but there's still some heavy equipment rolling around out there and laying down potash, phosphate and nitrogen.

And all of it is extremely expensive compared to normal. President Kevin Johnson of the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association said that, depending on the product, the higher cost is due to tariffs and what farmers are doing.

"The price of phosphate, it has trickled back on what guys are doing. It's not uncommon for somebody to say 'I'll still keep my nitrogen rate, what I'm doing. I'll probably keep my potash rate of what I'm doing,'" Johnson said. "But I definitely think, and retailers are telling, we're all talking to each other, that there is definitely a pullback on phosp

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