The latest round of government support for American agriculture is on track to set a new high. USDA’s $8 billion Harvest Fuel Relief Program, announced by President Trump at a Kansas rally,…
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Trump’s $8 Billion Diesel Relief Is a Band-Aid That Masks the Real Wound
Farmers facing diesel prices near or above $6 a gallon this harvest season will take the money. They have little choice. Combines, tractors, irrigation pumps, and grain trucks do not run on…
Trump Approval Crashes to 33% as Iran War Drives Costs, Puts Farm Policy at Risk in Midterms
With the November 3 midterm elections less than three weeks away, President Donald Trump’s job approval has fallen to a record low of 33 percent, with 66 percent of Americans disapproving and…
Trump’s Dyed Diesel Is a Pathetic Pittance to Appease Rural America
President Donald Trump stood in Grand Island, Nebraska, on October 5 and signed an executive order letting people temporarily buy red-dyed diesel for highway use while deferring the federal excise tax through…
Diesel Shock Hits the Highways As Trucking Firms File for Bankruptcy with Harvest Underway
Sixteen U.S. trucking companies filed for bankruptcy in less than a month as diesel prices exploded higher. The national average climbed from roughly $5.60 per gallon at the end of August to…
We Need Cheap Diesel or We Will Die
Diesel is the lifeblood of the modern world. It powers the tractors that till the soil, the combines that harvest the crops, the trucks that haul grain and livestock to market, the…
Brace for Diesel Above $7 National Average and Elevated Prices for Years to Come
American farmers are staring down another brutal hit to their bottom lines. The national average for on-highway diesel has already climbed past $6.50 a gallon in recent weeks. The EIA reported $6.529…
Argentine Farmers Are Nearly Twice as Optimistic as U.S. Producers. Why Shouldn’t They Be?
A first-of-its-kind comparison from Purdue University and Argentina’s Universidad Austral, released in August 2026, delivered a clear message. In surveys of about 400 producers in each country during May and June, 53…
When Diesel Breaks the Signs: California’s $9.99 Limit Meets the Golden Age of Expensive Freedom
California gas station signs were never designed for the American golden age. Those digital displays, capped at a cheerful $9.99 per gallon, assumed a world of relative normalcy. They did not account…
Why Rural America Needs Real Stewardship, Not Left-Wing Green Schemes or Right-Wing Plunder
The political swing on environmental and land-use policy has become cartoonishly extreme. On one side sits the left’s Green New Deal-style agenda: aggressive net-zero timelines, heavy investment in carbon capture, industrial-scale windmills…