YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - "It's HUMILIATING for Trump" Hayes on how Trump is FAILING farmers
MS NOW's Chris Hayes explains how Trump's attempt to purchase fertilizer for farmers from Belarus amid his ongoing trade war with Canada has backfired.
WASHINGTONPOST (Michael Birnbaum) - Trump seeks fertilizer deal with Russia ally Belarus amid Canadian tensions
The proposed potash purchases would expand trade with a country that helped Moscow launch its invasion of Ukraine.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - How Trump's policies are causing PAIN for farmers and making YOUR FOOD more expensive.
Pres. Trump's policies are driving up diesel and fertilizer prices, which in turn are driving up costs for farmers and food prices for consumers. Former Montana Senator Jon Tester tells Ali Velshi that farmers "are looking at not being able to pay their bills because the energy costs are so high."
AXIOS (Erica Pandey) - America's next grocery shock is brewing
America's grocery squeeze has thus far been most painfully felt in a few expensive categories, like beef, coffee and chocolate. - Now, the forces pushing up food prices are starting to pile up: expensive grain, soaring fertilizer and fuel, plus unpredictable weather and raging wars. Why it matters: The next grocery price shock could hit much harder — and much wider. The big picture: Your grocery store is fed by a vast global supply chain, and pressures are building all along it. - The Iran and Russia-Ukraine wars have driven up diesel prices , making it more expensive to operate farm equipment for harvesting and to truck food from suppliers to stores. - The war in Iran has also disrupted fertilizer supply and price, as a large share…
America's grocery squeeze has thus far been most painfully felt in a few expensive categories, like beef, coffee and chocolate. - Now, the forces pushing up food prices are starting to pile up: expensive grain, soaring fertilizer and fuel, plus unpredictable weather and raging wars. Why it matters: The next grocery price shock could hit much harder — and much wider. The big picture: Your grocery store is fed by a vast global supply chain, and pressures are building all along it. - The Iran and Russia-Ukraine wars have driven up diesel prices , making it more expensive to operate farm equipment for harvesting and to truck food from suppliers to stores. - The war in Iran has also disrupted fertilizer supply and price, as a large share…Open
NYTIMES (Jeanna Smialek) - It’s the Scent of Manure to Most, but ‘the Smell of Money’ to Them
The Netherlands has been trying to figure out what to do with manure it can no longer use thanks to environmental rules. Volatile fertilizer costs may help.
NPR (Joe Hernandez) - How a fertilizer shortage caused by the Iran war could affect U.S. food prices
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupted shipments of fertilizer and natural gas, a key component in fertilizer manufacturing. It's unlikely to cause major price hikes for U.S. grocery shoppers.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupted shipments of fertilizer and natural gas, a key component in fertilizer manufacturing. It's unlikely to cause major price hikes for U.S. grocery shoppers.Open
NYTIMES (Peter S. Goodman and Finbarr O’Reilly) - The Iran War’s Persistent Threat to Farmers in Poor Countries
A reopening of the Strait of Hormuz would do little to swiftly ease the pain inflicted by higher prices for fertilizer, food and fuel in Ivory Coast.
NYTIMES (Kevin Draper) - War Hangs Over American Farmers as Fertilizer Prices Rise
The Iran war and lower crop prices have hurt makers of sulfur-based supplements. But farmers won’t skip nitrogen-based fertilizers, no matter the cost.
NYTIMES (Peter S. Goodman and Finbarr O’Reilly) - Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
The humanitarian relief system, decimated by cuts, faces a grave challenge as the Middle East war causes soaring costs for food, fuel and fertilizer.
AXIOS (Nathan Bomey) - Farmers growing increasingly desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices
Farmers across the Midwest are entering planting season under mounting financial pressure, as the Iran conflict drives up diesel and fertilizer prices — deepening an agricultural downturn that some say is the worst since the crisis of the 1980s. Why it matters: Rising fuel and fertilizer costs threaten to push more family farms out of business, drive up food prices and further strain rural economies already battered by trade disruptions, inflation and extreme weather. The big picture: Mark Mueller — a northeast Iowa farmer and president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association — tells Axios that the current landscape is more challenging than at any time since the 1980s farm crisis , when interest rates soared and exports plunged,…
Farmers across the Midwest are entering planting season under mounting financial pressure, as the Iran conflict drives up diesel and fertilizer prices — deepening an agricultural downturn that some say is the worst since the crisis of the 1980s. Why it matters: Rising fuel and fertilizer costs threaten to push more family farms out of business, drive up food prices and further strain rural economies already battered by trade disruptions, inflation and extreme weather. The big picture: Mark Mueller — a northeast Iowa farmer and president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association — tells Axios that the current landscape is more challenging than at any time since the 1980s farm crisis , when interest rates soared and exports plunged,…Open