Fuel, fertilizer costs strain US farmers' support for Republicans in midterms

Fuel, fertiliser costs strain American farmers' support for Republicans in midterms

Farmers in the Midwest United States face surging diesel and fertiliser costs which are outpacing their incomes. The sector has seen diesel prices climb by 67 percent while fertiliser prices, at times, have seen steep price jumps. This comes amid trade along the Strait of Hormuz being disrupted by the US' war with Iran and trade wars with China and Canada crashing crop prices and disrupting potash supply, raising doubts over their continued supp…

Fuel, fertilizer costs strain US farmers' support for Republicans in midterms

As soybean farmer David Schacht begins his fall harvest, surging diesel and fertilizer costs are fast outpacing his earnings. He maintains this has not changed his support for President Donald Trump's Republican Party.