A member of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee is hearing from farmers concerned about escalating input costs.
Randy Feenstra is a Republican from Iowa.
“Just traveling the state of Iowa, this is a grave concern. I mean fertilizer prices right now are, some (farmers) had it already booked but probably 45 percent of people do not have it booked yet, so this is going to be a massive problem because fertilizer costs are at least going to be double.”
He tells Brownfield members of Congress are working with the Trump administration to figure out solutions.
“We’re hoping, we’ve got a meeting with the White House, a big White House ag event on Friday, that we’re going to talk about this issue specifically. That we’ve got to get these input costs, specifically fertilizer, down.”
Otherwise Feenstra says it will be catastrophic for farmers.
