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BREAKING: @POTUS just signed an Executive Order to immediately cut diesel costs by temporarily allowing highway use of tax-free dyed diesel and deferring the federal diesel tax on that fuel through the end of the year — no interest, no penalties.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says he will likely implement an EXPORT BAN on DIESEL FUEL imminently This would be a HUGE relief for our farmers, who are STRUGGLING with increasing diesel prices, which is a result of refineries being blown up in the Russia-Ukraine War US companies should be keeping their refined diesel in the US to help ease pressure on truckers, farmers, and more. Bessent says they're deciding between a FULL export ban or a PARTIAL export ban, and a decision will be made "fast"

1.9 million b/d of US diesel exports are the only thing keeping the global diesel hole from getting worse right now. Ban that and US pump prices ease while Europe's diesel market, already near $167 a barrel, has nowhere left to go but higher. Domestic relief, global shock

Corn is for food. Not fuel. Enough!

On Tuesday, the U.S. military helped ship over 15 million barrels of oil and products out of the Strait of Hormuz — combined with pipelines, the total leaving the region is closer to 20 million barrels. 7-day average of oil leaving the Strait is over 8 million barrels a day. Make no mistake, thanks to the U.S. Navy, oil is flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Here’s the ass kicker of it all. Beef prices won’t go down a penny. Imports will be bought cheaper, marked up to current market beef prices, and that new margin goes to packer and retail corporations. All while the lemmings drool over Trump and clap like sea lions for it.

A new study by @NationalCorn found: -U.S. corn seed prices averaged 68% higher than Brazil’s -Insecticide prices averaged 87% higher -Some fungicides cost more than double what Brazilian farmers paid -Many herbicide comparisons also approached double Brazilian price levels For NCGA President Jed Bower, an Ohio farmer, the findings confirm concerns many growers have held for years: “It sure doesn’t look like we’re the low-cost producer anymore,” Bower says. “The study shows the American farmer is really paying for all the innovation and research for the rest of the world to take advantage of.” agweb.com/news/crops/crop-pr…

@USDA has confirmed multiple cases of New World Screwworm in Texas. We’re moving fast and smart. Last year, I rolled out a bold five-point plan to protect American livestock and stop this pest in its tracks: 1. Invest into our sterile fly production through the construction of a massive $750M sterile fly production facility at Moore Air Base. 2. Protect the U.S. border at all costs through enhanced surveillance, sterile insect dispersal, trapping, and livestock movement controls. 3. Maximize readiness by partnering with states on emergency plans, training, and securing treatments. 4. Take the fight directly to the screwworm with increased sterile fly dispersals across the U.S. - Mexico border. 5. Innovate our way to eradication through cutting-edge research, more efficient production, better traps, and next-generation tools. We’re already executing that plan on the ground: • 20-km zones with strict movement controls around both detections. • Heightened surveillance and trapping across the area. • Millions of sterile flies released weekly, 2 million aerial drops twice a week plus ground releases in the area to break the pest’s life cycle. • Strike teams, mobile labs, and emergency treatments deployed through unified command with Texas partners. Faced with the irresponsibility of both the Biden regime and too much of the Mexican one, we needed time — to prepare, to coordinate, and to ready the infrastructure to beat what was coming. We acted, and we got the time. Now the task is to turn the tide. We eradicated New World Screwworm once before, and we will do it again! For any questions, guidance, or feedback on NWS please email: screwworm@usda.gov

Look at the ratio and the comments on this post. No one wants ethanol. It’s being forced on us against our will by the people that are supposed to be representing us.

What’s really happening… Export the best quality and highest value cuts to foreign nations for bigger margin Import the lowest quality and cheapest meat to blend with excess trim fat and mark it up to sell to Americans for bigger margin That’s what’s really going on.

This would be absolutely terrible possible for Iowa that depends on data centers as a key economic driver and has miles and miles of unused land. This is a very bad look.