Fertilizer Up 77%. SNAP Cut $187 Billion. Food Banks at Capacity. The Storm Is Here.

The Strait of Hormuz closed. Fertilizer prices spiked 77%. Congress advanced a Farm Bill that ignores the largest SNAP cuts in history. Food banks are reporting record demand. The government killed the only survey measuring hunger. And we signed four exchanges, a market maker, and a PR firm that owns CoinTelegraph. 45 days.

Fertilizer Up 77%. SNAP Cut $187 Billion. Food Banks at Capacity. The Storm Is Here. The Strait of Hormuz closed. Fertilizer prices spiked 77%. Congress advanced a Farm Bill that ignores the largest SNAP cuts in history. Food banks are reporting record demand. The government killed the only survey measuring hunger. And we signed four exchanges, a market maker, and a PR firm that owns CoinTelegraph. 45 days. March 14, 2026 WYDE Weekly | March 14, 2026 The perfect storm arrived. It came from every direction at once. February 28: US and Israeli strikes hit Iran. Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz. One-third of global seaborne fertilizer stopped moving. Urea prices surged 77%. March 5: The House Agriculture Committee voted 34-17 to advance a Farm Bill that ignores $187 billion in SNAP cuts. 4 million people projected to lose benefits. March 11: The SEC and CFTC signed a historic MOU classifying Bitcoin and Ethereum as commodities under CFTC jurisdiction, ending years of regulatory turf war. March 11: Mastercard recruited 85+ crypto companies including Binance, Ripple, PayPal, Circle, and Gemini into a global partner program connecting blockchain payments to its card network across 200+ countries. March 12: The Senate passed a CBDC ban 89-10. The same day, SNAP recipients sued the USDA over food restriction waivers in 22 states. The same day, Anthropic invested $100M in its Claude Partner Network. March 12: Great Plains Food Bank reported the highest demand in its 43-year history. One in five North Dakotans. One in four children. March 13: Travis Kalanick launched Atoms , a robotics company building automated food infrastructure after 8 years in stealth. Meanwhile: We signed four exchanges, a market maker, a PR firm, and a social team. Feed the Children's agreement is in fin