Yes. For farmers, it's a double whammy. Ag machinery uses a lot of iron

and steel.

A substantial rise in those manufacturing inputs combined with a lower price for beans (which spills into corn and wheat), will hurt a sector already facing some of their lowest profits in a decade.

Hopefully, farmers can organize and help support a Congress that pushes back against the neo Smoot-Hawley policy.

In response to this post by HowieT3

Posted: 06/15/2018 at 3:30PM

... and the chickens (pigs?) start coming home to roost. -- HowieT3 06/15/2018 3:26PM

Yes. For farmers, it's a double whammy. Ag machinery uses a lot of iron -- Shenhoo 06/15/2018 3:30PM

How are your peach trees doing. This is the best -- Cold Hoober Hoo 06/15/2018 5:27PM

I have two. First year for peaches! -- Shenhoo 06/15/2018 5:35PM

Good for you. Those Redhaven will set a lot of fruit every year. -- Cold Hoober Hoo 06/15/2018 7:59PM

Really? Groundhogs got all my lettuce, and just cleaned out my pea patch. -- Shenhoo 06/15/2018 8:17PM

Odd, I have groundhogs -- hoothat 06/16/2018 12:19AM

It's little. 18 in raised beds. Just 3 4x8 landscape timbers. -- Shenhoo 06/16/2018 07:44AM

Well it does have hog in its name. You can always get a.177 pellet -- Cold Hoober Hoo 06/15/2018 8:22PM

We drive from DC to the Delaware beaches a lot. If a field we pass ... -- HowieT3 06/15/2018 3:42PM

Yes. For farmers, it's a double whammy. Ag machinery uses a lot of iron

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