{"id":623292,"date":"2026-04-23T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:58:09","slug":"local-farmers-getting-hit-with-soaring-fuel-fertilizer-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623292\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Farmers Getting Hit with Soaring Fuel, Fertilizer Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Vegetable-Agriculture.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Local Farmers Getting Hit with Soaring Fuel, Fertilizer Costs\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>These are uncertain times for those who work the land for a living with the cost of fertilizer and fuel much higher than last year because of the war in Iran. <\/p>\n<p>Andy Wright, the vice-president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlfa.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Agriculture<\/a>, says their fertilizer consists of three main components \u2013 phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen. It\u2019s the nitrogen which has doubled in cost. <\/p>\n<p>He says farmers may need some help from government to keep food costs under control as it\u2019s not only the fertilizer but the cost of fuel for virtually every aspect of agriculture. <\/p>\n<p>Last year was a tough one for the sector with wildfires and drought on parts of the island but Wright says farmers are eternal optimists. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a fuel cost to bring that out of the ground and across the ground to the farm. So, we\u2019re getting hit with fuel surcharges, and then our fuel costs to spread that fertilizer. We\u2019re hearing, (that) one of our suppliers has spoken to a colleague about fuel surcharges of 200 per cent just to get it here.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; These are uncertain times for those who work the land for a living with the cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-623292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}