American farmers dealt new blow as Trump's Iran war escalates

[riversedge]

Source: msn



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As the U.S.–Israeli bombardment of Iran continues with no end in sight, the economic shockwaves are already hitting American farmers, with some struggling to buy fertilizer and gasoline prices rising.

The war zone sits at the crossroads of the world’s fertilizer supply. Since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran a week ago, maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a near standstill. The waterway moves roughly 20 percent of the world’s daily oil and a quarter of its nitrogen fertilizer.


Chet Edinger, a corn and soybean farmer from Mitchell, South Dakota, saw it coming. As soon as the news broke, he rushed to lock in one last load of urea, the most widely used nitrogen fertilizer, the morning the strikes began. He paid 22 percent more than he had late last year, the highest price he had ever seen.

Days later, the market froze entirely.

“You can’t even buy it right now if you wanted to,” he told Newsweek. “Because all the supplies are tied up with their existing customers.”

The Fertilizer Cliff
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NOW, because of Trumps Iran war--there is Another reason for grocery prices to rise!!



Urea barge prices at the Port of New Orleans jumped from $475 per ton the week before the strikes to $683 by March 6. Iran controls 10 to 12 % of global urea exports. Qatar accounts for 11% of global supply, shut down liquefied natural gas production

Urea barge prices at the Port of New Orleans jumped from 5 per ton the week before the strikes to 3 by March 6. Iran controls 10 to 12 % of global urea exports. Qatar accounts for 11% of global supply, shut down liquefied natural gas production

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[Walleye]

1. Trump doesn't understand farming, he doesn't care about it

He doesn’t even understand business we need certainty in business. All he knows is “deals“ and nobody trusts him to make a deal anyway. I noticed every time he has a phone conversation with Putin. He starts talking about how our elections are “rigged“ again. It’s obvious he hates his fellow Americans, and thinks we’re all liars and cheaters. I’m sick of it.

[Multichromatic]

2. This is what you voted for MAGA farmer! Enjoy the inflation.

[murielm99]

9. Just like clockwork,

everyone comes out and blames all farmers. We farm. We are Democrats. We work hard to elect Democrats. We try our best to convince our fellow farmers to vote for Democrats. Maybe you can find a way to do something positive as well.

[travelingthrulife]

19. He said MAGA farmers.

My Dad was a Democrat and a farmer. But he was a rarity.

[mwmisses4289]

3. Somehow, i can't garner any sympathy for someone who most likely voted for t.

"Owning the libs and making them suffer" was just sssooo much more important than voting for competent leadership. Too bad the "libs" aren't "owned". And you are reaping the consequences of your stupidity.

[radical noodle]

14. We will ALL reap the consequences

With far higher prices for food and other products that depend on fertilizer for a decent crop.

[NNadir]

18. There's a bumper sticker I see around here: No farmers, no food.

[UpInArms]

4. I spoke with a friend

Who is a farmer and a good democrat last week. In this sea of red, he told me of a person who responded to rising fuel prices with “fuel always goes up when the farmers have to go in the fields, that’s the only reason for higher prices”

[niyad]

7. It is such a pity in so many cases that breathing is an autonomic functiion.

[Bengus81]

5. Pfffftt...they know Trump will send them that much more CASH than he did in 2017

They have $12B supposedly coming and like in his first term he will raise that amount and raise it and raise it. They can ALL be bought off by that POS just like they were in his first term.

They griped and whined about losing soybean sales to China after Trump fucked that up in his first term. He eventually sent them billions and billions in subsidy's.

Those farmers in Kansas that bitched and screamed in his first term voted for him by 80%-90% in Kansas in 2024.

[Icanthinkformyself]

6. Another case of

voting against their own self interest. We are all paying a heavy price with more damage to follow because the MAGA cult is infantile. Are the farmers who voted for the Convicted Felon known pedophile happy that they will soon be working for the corporations that are buying up the farm land? They will be paying rent to those entities for the house built on the land that the farmers once owned. 'Company towns' will become the norm, again.

[durablend]

8. Farmers should've voted EVEN HARDER for him

[Old Crank]

10. Perfect

About a 40% jump in a week or so.

I don't know how much they use but that gets expensive for large acreages.

[durablend]

11. Why don't they just take a dump in the fields

"Like the good old days before all that gubermint interference stuff"

[Vogon_Glory]

12. Assuming we have free elections in 2026 and 2028 and afterwards

Democrats should make it a point to tie the economic crises of the Trump and GW Bush years to the Republican Party.

FDR ran against Herbert Hoover for years after the 1932 elections. I don’t know how long the shelf life of the memory of Trump’s second term will last, but I’d bet on at least half a decade.

[mwooldri]

13. Urea? Dang :(

Urea is a main ingredient in Diesel Exhaust Fluid. So diesel prices are up, now DEF prices will go up... Another factor to drive freight costs higher. Which will end up with the consumer paying more.

[NJCher]

15. I have around 150

Broccoli plants and a few barrels of compost if that helps any.

[Mysterian]

16. Keep voting republican, idiots!

They CARE about the important issues affecting your lives...... Jesus, drag queens, and most important...GUNS!

[markodochartaigh]

17. Well, this sure is an overly negative take on the situation.

They may end up seeing their farms, which have been in their families for 150 years, sold off at auction to hedge funds, just like they have seen periodically since the Reagan days, leaving their children no choice but to move to the big city and try and compete in the shrinking job market. But at least they don't have to see the .002% of athletes who are trans accepted as competitors in college sports. Or see the 1% of the population who are trans use a restroom marked for people not of their birth gender. Or see the 0% of kids who identify as pets use litterboxes in schools. Or have their pets eaten by the 0% of Haitians who eat pets. Or hear the president champion workers rights as he becomes the only president in US history to actually walk a picket line.
Losing the farms which were their heritage to corporations who don't care about the land should be a small price to pay for saving The Homeland from woke trans furries. Pass those farmers another beer to wash down their Argentinian beef hamberders while they watch their sportsball.

[paleotn]

20. What an incredibly interconnected world we live in

Simpletons like Shitler and his cast of equal morons just can’t grasp that.