Labor & Economic News Blog


Friday, May 13, 2005

Higher fuel costs may burn hole in U.S. farmers' profits
Everywhere they turn, farmers face sticker shock: more than $100 for a bag of genetically engineered, chemically treated seed corn-- $4,000 per acre for prime farm ground-- more than $100,000 for a new, large tractor-- and twice as much for a new combine.

 



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