Top White House officials met with fertilizer executives Wednesday to have a “frank discussion” on price spikes and short-term solutions, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.
Rollins said that the Trump administration roundtable centered around how they could work with companies to “keep this fertilizer crisis in check.”
The Agriculture secretary’s comments suggest the Iran war’s hit on American farmers remains an ongoing concern for the administration, despite Rollins’s recent assertion that 80 percent of farmers had already locked in their fertilizer needs for the season.
Fertilizer and fuel prices have skyrocketed in recent weeks due to the conflict’s chokehold on shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a key passageway for critical agricultural products farmers depend on during the current planting season.
