Fuel prices!!
Farmers use diesel fuel. Truckers use diesel. It is now over $4 a gallon.
For crops, you pay for the fuel to get the seed, plow, disc or till, fertalize, and harvest. Then you pay for the fuel to take it to market-which is either the nearest coop, mill or if produce a buyer warehouse, or if you are a smaller farmer, to each individual store you sell to.
Once it is at the warehouse or coop or mill, then then it is trucked to a refining plant, then to a packager, then to another warehouse and finally to a store.
At the end, you pay for the raise in fuel when you buy the groceries.
And, the fuel is still going up. 2 years ago we were paying $1.87 a gallon for the tractors. This morning, the coop sign was reading $4.11 a gallon.
The stores, mills, coops, warehouses and farmers are not making that money. The truck drivers are not making that extra money.
The fuel companies ARE. I think everyone should write to the fuel companies and complain how milk is now over $5 a gallon and how high everthing is. Maybe if they go several billion letters they would think about it.
I am looking for postal rates to go up next.
Thanks for letting this farm wife vent!!
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