Kirk Sigler
speaker
510 appearances
72 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 9 Sep
Kirk Sigler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Geopolitics is just the latest stress for farmers like Justin Sherlock, who grows soybeans and corn in North Dakota.
He's going into his fourth straight spring planting season in the red.
The only way most farmers are still able to get a loan from the bank is because land prices are still high, and that's collateral.
High diesel and fertilizer costs due to President Trump's Iran war capping what's been a slow burn in the heartland since COVID.
And then tariffs with soybean prices staying flat and inflation rising.
Sherlock says something's got to give soon.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Fargo, North Dakota.
Geopolitics is just the latest stress for farmers like Justin Sherlock, who grows soybeans and corn in North Dakota.
He's going into his fourth straight spring planting season in the red.
The only way most farmers are still able to get a loan from the bank is because land prices are still high, and that's collateral.
High diesel and fertilizer costs due to President Trump's Iran war capping what's been a slow burn in the heartland since COVID.
And then tariffs with soybean prices staying flat and inflation rising.
Sherlock says something's got to give soon.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Fargo, North Dakota.
Farmers are already dealing with high equipment and fertilizer costs due to inflation and President Trump's latest trade war.
And the war in Iran has driven up those costs even more.
Justin Sherlock grows corn and soybeans.
Sherlock is going into his fourth straight year in the red.
The farmers here still holding on are only surviving because land prices are so high and that's collateral to the banks.
We're at a point where we're literally betting the farm to try and keep going one more year right now.
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