NYTIMES (Kevin Draper) - How Farmers Are Staying Afloat as Crop Prices Plunge
Most U.S. farmers will lose money this year. Landowners and investors are increasingly trying to make money from their land, not what can be grown from it.
NPR (Kirk Siegler) - Eager for a break, farmers don't expect much relief after the Iran peace deal
Fertilizer prices have gone down with the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the prospect of a U.S.-Iran peace deal. But struggling American farmers won't likely see any relief for months.
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Trump speaks at agriculture roundtable in Wisconsin, supporting farmers amid Iran war
President Trump sought to appeal to farmers at a roundtable in Wisconsin on Friday amid skyrocketing fertilizer and energy prices as a result of the U.S. war in Iran. “We’re going to come out, and your fertilizer prices are going to go way down, just like they were four months ago,” Trump told farmers in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Friday.
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Trump's Wisconsin agriculture roundtable: farm economy, bashing Biden & SAVE America Act
President Trump sought to appeal to farmers at a roundtable in Wisconsin on Friday amid skyrocketing fertilizer and energy prices as a result of the U.S. war in Iran. “We’re going to come out, and your fertilizer prices are going to go way down, just like they were four months ago,” Trump told farmers in Chippewa Falls, Wis., on Friday. #trump #wisconsin #farm #agriculture
WASHINGTONPOST (Isaac Arnsdorf, Cat Zakrzewski) - Trump visits Wisconsin in bid to reassure farmers squeezed by surging costs
Besides higher fertilizer and fuel prices, the president also talked at length about D.C.’s fountains and his border policies.
DAILYCALLER (John Loftus) - Americans Farmers Appear To Be Screwed
'The skyrocketing cost of fuel and fertilizer is creating more economic hardships'
NPR (Drew Hawkins) - The rising cost of fertilizer and fuel prices is pushing some farmers to the brink
In the Mississippi Delta, a crucial agricultural region, farmers say their patience is wearing thin. Reeling from the effects of tariffs, they must now also navigate rising fertilizer and fuel costs.
JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - Agriculture Secretary Rollins working with White House on skyrocketing fertlizer prices
With Iran blockading the waterway, fertilizer prices have risen dramatically since the start of the conflict.
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Watch live: Trump Gives Remarks To Farmers At White House
President Trump on Friday afternoon will host hundreds of farmers, ranchers and executives at the White House to outline his administration's agriculture agenda. During the event, he is expected to announce actions to assist U.S. farmers and food suppliers, including new guidance on farm equipment regulations and ways to cut costs within the industry, as energy and fertilizer prices rise amid the ongoing military operation in Iran. Trump will be joined by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler.
HUFFPOST - Farmer Says Trump’s War Will Hit Grocery Prices As Rural Americans Suffer ‘The Collateral Damage’
“I wish this administration would get their act together,” the farmer said.