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…
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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…
Dear Farmers, It’s Not Your Fault
You got up before the sun. You checked the cattle in a freezing wind. You planted when the window was two days wide and the forecast was a liar. You ran the…
State Investigators Showed Up After She Questioned the Mega-Dairy
Julie Burgod asked questions about a 25,000-head mega-dairy planned for her small South Dakota county. Less than a day after she laid those questions out in public, a Division of Criminal Investigations…
Talking a Big Game on Ranchers While Flooding the Market with Foreign Beef
President Donald Trump and the USDA are making plenty of noise about standing up for American cattle producers. They talk about giving ranchers more power to process and sell their own meat….
UK Paid Farmers to Quit Growing Food Then Blamed the Weather
The UK has provided a clear blueprint for manufacturing a food shortage. What looks like a sudden crisis blamed on weather and geopolitics is the predictable result of years of deliberate policy…