Analysis: Alaska Oil Pinch Could Hit Farms

(UPI) — The pinching of Alaskan oil production could not have come at a worse time for U.S. farmers who could see diesel prices spike higher just as they start firing-up tractors and combines for the fall harvest.

Higher demand, along with the need to get fuel to far-flung rural locations, raised the prospect of harvest costs soaring and either being passed on to consumers or eaten by farmers who routinely find themselves at the mercy of the brutal worlds of both energy and agricultural commodity markets.
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