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ICYMI - Monday Study Panel - Cost of Business in Farms and Cities
The $200,000 Fuel Bill and the $30 Grocery Run
Gas prices impact on farmers this week is the reason your grocery bill jumped $30 without a single change to what you bought. You felt it at the pump. The farmer who grew your food felt it in a fuel bill that already runs $200,000 a year on an average Saskatchewan operation.
The price at the pump is a political signal in America. In a farm operation it is a line item that can determine whether a season makes sense. What changed this week is not just the pump price. It is the speed at which everything connected to it changed at the same time…
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