Skyrocketing costs, unfair markets, and poor policy are pressuring farmers thanks to the ongoing conflict

Iowa corn and soybean farmer April Hemmes said her fertilizer costs are up about 30% and are predicted to rise again next year.

Soybean farmers have been hit particularly hard. Most are sticking with the president anyway.

Skyrocketing costs, unfair markets, and poor policy are pressuring farmers thanks to the ongoing conflict

A Center for American Progress analysis found that the war is "forcing rural households to pay at least $26 more per week at the pump and threatening to push grocery prices even…

Farmers are grappling with a confluence of forces — many of them human-made, including the effects of the Iran war.

The war with Iran has created an additional strain for farmers, raising the price of diesel by about 50%. The cost of nearly everything else, from seed to fertilizer, is rising…