Input Cost Fits
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson. The frustration is mounting as farmers continue to struggle with war and tariff-driven high input costs and chronically low prices.
Iowa Senator and senior member of the Finance Committee, Chuck Grassley, says he’s hearing repeatedly from farmers who are at their wits’ end …
GRASSLEY … “It was constantly coming up about high input costs, low prices, the uncertainty of tariffs, what’s going on in Iran, and how it’s driven up the diesel prices. Farmers are at fits what to do about it.”
And Congress has been slow to act on more aid or year-round E15, which Grassley urges to include in a war supplemental …
GRASSLEY … “When we put more money into the Defense Department, and because the Iran war is driving up the price of diesel way beyond five dollars, it’s very important that we have E15 in that legislation.”
Or $7 dollars here in Washington.
Grassley argues the connection is unmistakable …
GRASSLEY … “E15 nationwide, year-round, goes very much in a bill to replenish war material, because the war itself is causing some of these input costs to farmers.”
Grassley says Senate Majority Leader Thune, House Speaker Johnson and President Trump have backed year-round E15.
