Jon Tester on Iran Driving Energy Prices Up: ‘Farmers Are Feeling it Already’

TESTER: “Well, I don’t know when you’ll see at the grocery store, but I’m telling you, farmers are feeling it already. Let’s start with the tariffs. Hasn’t been a very good situation. It’s increased input costs raised hell with our markets. And now with energy prices going up, we use a lot of energy in agriculture. And this is going to cut another hole in the margins are not that they’re not that good right now. They’re very very slim. Increased energy costs is ultimately going to there’s going to be a lot of farmers go out of business because the tariffs, there’s going to be a lot more go out. If these energy costs keep going up and they stay up. “

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Jon Tester on Iran Driving Energy Prices Up: ‘Farmers Are Feeling it Already’‘And this is going to cut another hole in the margins’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:TESTER: “Well, I don’t know when you’ll see at the grocery store, but I’m telling you, farmers are feeling it already. Let’s start with the tariffs. Hasn’t been a very good situation. It’s increased input costs raised hell with our markets. And now with energy prices going up, we use a lot of energy in agriculture. And this is going to cut another hole in the margins are not that they’re not that good right now. They’re very very slim. Increased energy costs is ultimately going to there’s going to be a lot of farmers go out of business because the tariffs, there’s going to be a lot more go out. If these energy costs keep going up and they stay up. “Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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