Graph: Macrotrends
Headline: New York Times, 10/5/2026
Kevin Draper reports:
While truckers may save 24.4 cents a gallon by using dyed diesel, allowing farmers to use it in their road vehicles won’t make a huge dent in their fuel costs.
Diesel also isn’t a major expense on farms. According to the Agriculture Department, diesel made up just 2.6 percent of an average crop farm’s expenses in 2025. Things like labor, rent and agricultural chemicals are much larger expenses.
“It probably won’t do a whole lot, really,” said Gregory Ibendahl, an agricultural economist at Kansas State University. It isn’t taxes on diesel that is hurting farmers, but the nearly doubling of the price from last year. What they really need, Mr. Ibendahl said, is “something big to get the prices back where they were before the Iran thing started.”
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