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  "path": "/2026/05/17/farmers-grow-desperate-as-fertilizer-and-energy-costs-grow/",
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  "textContent": "Farmers across the Midwest are reported to be facing the worst agricultural downturn since the 1980s as rising energy and fertilizer prices continue to bite due to the Iran war. Axios reports, “Mark Mueller—a northeast Iowa farmer and president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association—tells Axios that the current landscape is more challenging than at […]",
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