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Farmers across the United States are facing a growing crisis as fertiliser and fuel costs surge during peak planting season. The spike comes amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, with disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz—a critical route for global oil and fertiliser shipments.

In North Carolina, farmer Russell Hedrick says diesel prices have nearly doubled, making it significantly more expensive to operate machinery during planting season. Fertiliser prices have also surged by around 50%, forcing many farmers to cut usage — a move that could reduce crop yields and impact food supply.

Delays in shipments and rising input costs are creating uncertainty across the agricultural sector. Farmer Andy Corriher warns that the effects are being felt not just by farmers, but by consumers nationwide.

The crisis highlights how global conflicts — including tensions involving Iran — are directly impacting everyday livelihoods thousands of miles away.

Will this lead to higher food prices? And how long can farmers sustain these rising costs? Watch the full report.

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00:05I'll be honest with you, I voted for Trump three times now.
00:08I think that he's human like the rest of us.
00:11I think he makes good calls, I think he makes mistakes.
00:34Diesel was $3.50 a gallon, now we're pushing $6.00.
00:37That's been kind of hard this summer or this spring for really getting planting.
00:43It's 100 gallons to fill a tractor up if people don't know that.
01:06The person that makes the mistakes obviously gets the most criticism.
01:09But either way, if this gives us long term peace and
01:14gets the straight back open and gets things going again, that's all I can hope for.
01:19You can't predict everything that's gonna happen, but
01:21I feel like these things were kind of overlooked as part of collateral damage
01:26that was gonna occur to us, and not just people that do what we do.
01:31Just the American people as a whole, I mean, everybody seems to be suffering.
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