Trump Woos Farmers at Rose Garden Dinner as Iran War Lifts Fuel, Fertilizer Costs

3 articles · Updated · NPR · Jun 26

Rose Garden outreach became Trump's latest move to calm farmers upset that the Iran war has driven up fuel and fertilizer prices and cut into already thin margins.
Those cost spikes are the core grievance: higher diesel and fertilizer bills are squeezing farm profits and turning a key political constituency against the administration.
The effort underscores how the conflict's economic fallout is reaching beyond energy markets, forcing the White House to manage domestic backlash from rural America.

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