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Rising Fuel Prices Hit Farmers Already Struggling With WA State Costs
Monday, 30 March, 2026
While farmers aren’t excited about higher fuel and fertilizer bills resulting from the recent conflict in Iran, the additional cost wouldn’t be as big of a threat to farms in Washington state if it weren’t for the costly decisions in Olympia that have already pushed many farms across the state to the brink of insolvency. Jason Vander Kooy, a Mount Vernon-area multigenerational family dairy farmer and Save Family Farming’s Vice President, joins Dillon with details on the impacts he’s seeing, and why pundits who only focus on the Iran conflict’s affects are missing the bigger picture for farming here in Washington.
