{"id":1525190,"date":"2022-06-21T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525190"},"modified":"2022-06-21T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:20:09","slug":"farmers-warn-of-food-shortages-higher-prices-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/farmers-warn-of-food-shortages-higher-prices-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Warn Of Food Shortages, Higher Prices On The Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffarmers-warn-of-food-shortages-higher-prices-on-the-horizon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525190&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p2\">Farmers and ranchers across the country are struggling with spiking production costs. From diesel fuel to fertilizer, everything they need to produce crops is much more expensive, and farmers are warning that food shortages and even higher prices are on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cRight now we are in a crisis in America as it relates to farmers,\u201d John Boyd, Jr., of the National Black Farmers Association,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rt5nV2hayPg\">told<\/a> Sean Hannity on Fox News. \u201cWe are facing an all-time high in diesel fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Americans are feeling the pinch of gas prices and the rising costs of essential goods like food and other necessities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Inflation is at a 40-year high, and farming is one industry that\u2019s being hit especially hard. The higher costs of farming will further impact the food supply over the next few months, and even years, since crops take time to plant, grow and harvest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Fuel and fertilizer are costing farmers more money. The national <a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/nation-world\/high-diesel-prices-leave-farmers-and-ranchers-struggling-energy-gas-oil-american-farm-bureau-economist-shelby-myers-crops-fuel-consumer-producer-input-costs-crude\">average<\/a> for diesel fuel is $5.81 per gallon, but a year ago, that was only $3.23. This means a farmer is now up to about $870 to fill a tractor with a 150 gallon gas tank \u2013 much more than last year\u2019s price of $484.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Adding to the high costs are supply chain problems. Russia is the largest exporter of fertilizer, and many of the natural resources needed to make the product come from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, so the conflict in that region has increased costs and made supplies more challenging to come by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">An April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/fertilizer-costs-food-prices-51650524400\">report<\/a> from Barron\u2019s noted that the costs of certain fertilizer ingredients have almost doubled since last year. Some farmers are concerned that the costs of inputs could rise as much as 40% this year and another 20% or higher into 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Ag Economy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agdaily.com\/news\/farmer-confidence-falls-production-costs-continue-skyrocket\/\">Barometer<\/a> by Purdue University\/CME Group <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/commercialag\/ageconomybarometer\/farmer-sentiment-plummets-as-production-costs-skyrocket\/\">shows<\/a> how farmers feel about the agricultural economy. The survey showed that 44% of farmers are most worried about the high production costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Shelby Myers, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, <a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/nation-world\/high-diesel-prices-leave-farmers-and-ranchers-struggling-energy-gas-oil-american-farm-bureau-economist-shelby-myers-crops-fuel-consumer-producer-input-costs-crude\">said<\/a> it\u2019s important to remember that the costs to distribute and deliver the goods also affect the final price that gets passed on to consumers in the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">A recent survey in the U.K. showed that 80% of food suppliers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwi.co.uk\/business\/rising-costs-strain-farmer-and-retailer-relations-on-pricing\">asked<\/a> retailers for at least one price increase in the past year, but oftentimes, they don\u2019t get a response quickly, or they\u2019re told no. This might sound good for consumers in the short term, but it could negatively impact farms across the country going forward, especially if it causes farms to produce less food or go out of business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">One local farmer recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gweditingthe-fertilizer-crisis-impacting-california-farmers\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire that consumers could see smaller produce on their grocery store shelves because of a lack of fertilizer. He said farmers could face a situation where, without enough fertilizer, their fruit doesn\u2019t grow to market size.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Many are saying these high prices aren\u2019t going away anytime soon, and looking at the status of farms in the U.S., it\u2019s poised to get worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers and ranchers across the country are struggling with spiking production costs. From diesel fuel to fertilizer, everything they need to produce crops is much more expensive, and farmers are warning that food shortages and even higher prices are on the horizon. \u201cRight now we are in a crisis in America as it relates to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1525192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}