Trump Says He Is Considering Helping Farmers With High Fertilizer Prices

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: US News & World Report/Reuters

June 11, 2026, at 4:27 p.m.


WASHINGTON, ⁠June ⁠11 (Reuters) - U.S. ⁠President Donald ​Trump ‌on Thursday ‌said ⁠he is ⁠considering taking action to ​help ​farmers affected by ⁠high fertilizer ⁠prices.

"I ⁠am looking ​at doing a ​form ⁠of ⁠help," Trump told reporters at the ⁠White House, without providing details.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-06-11/trump-says-he-is-considering-helping-farmers-with-high-fertilizer-prices

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Short article at post time.

[Permanut]

1. Using whose money?

[SunSeeker]

2. 78% of farmers voted for this mess! Now they want my tax money?!

https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/trump-election-farming-counties-trade-war/

[SeattleVet]

3. They're going to harness the massive amount of bullshit he spews?

[Blumancru]

4. Just keep feeding him whatever slop he shoves down his gullet

And empty his depends into a big container. Voila, no fertilizer shortage.

[chouchou]

13. Good one !!

Made me laugh...

[Cheezoholic]

5. Well, we just handed the Executive branch another 70 billion under the auspice that its for the DHS/ICE

The real secret id that the roughly 225 billion that DHS/ICE has received can be spent any way the Executive branch wishes. They can move it anywhere they want. they can make it disappear (which they are). While the law states Congress has the power of the purse, once the money is given to the Executive branch for the them and the departments under them, the OMB (Russel Vought) have a huge piggy bank slush fund. Now Congress can get pissed, call them in for accountability that the money is being spent as they intended but once that cash gets under the Executive branches umbrella there isn't a whole lot anyone can do short of an independent DOJ investigating. That ain't gonna happen here. The slush fund is way way more than 1.776 billion folks. Its larger than the budget for the Marine Corps. And they now have it in their pocket.

[twodogsbarking]

6. Mexico will pay for it.

[Buddyzbuddy]

7. Finally! Something the Felon actually might know about.

BULLSH*T!

[thesquanderer]

10. Yes, my thought was that he was going to increase his volume of bullshit, but then realized that would be impossible. nt

[tanyev]

8. The high fertilizer prices HE CAUSED. Say it, news media! 😡

When the war in Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz in late February, the world's attention went to oil prices. However, equally consequential is how the crisis impacted the global fertilizer market, which will inevitably affect food prices, planting decisions and hunger for the rest of 2026 and beyond.

Roughly half of global food production depends on nitrogen fertilizer, the only nutrient that crops require every growing season. The supply chain behind it begins with natural gas. The Haber-Bosch process extracts hydrogen from methane and combines it with nitrogen from the air to produce ammonia, the foundation of urea and most other nitrogen fertilizers.

A third of its global trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz, cut off overnight when it closed, sending urea prices surging from around $490 to over $700 per tonne.

Major exporters, including China and Russia, then restricted exports to protect their domestic supply, further tightening the market. Fertilizer plants across South Asia, which depend on imported Gulf natural gas as their feedstock, also began shutting down.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/05/iran-war-fertilizer-biochar/

[Javaman]

9. 1) too late by this point

2) where is he magically going to get it?

[hadEnuf]

11. Well, if the farmers need sh!t

then Trump is the right person to go to.

[alterfurz]

17. aka King MerdeAss...

...everything he touches turns to 💩

[ToxMarz]

12. Haven't we given these Trump loving welfare queens enough money by now that the taxpayers should own all these farms.

[LPBBEAR]

14. This one shouldn't be too hard for him...

he's so full of shit he has plenty to spare.

[Prairie Gates]

15. Why weren't farmers more attuned to the downside risks of their decision-making

Another bailout for farmers who chose an administration that would very likely choke supply lines for their needed precursor materials?

Where are the Fox Business and CNBC capitalists inveighing against moral hazard? These farmers have three times made the same terrible business decisions, and now the rest of society has to bail them out?

[bluestarone]

16. The ONLY reason for this is, BUYING votes!!

We know it's illegal to buy votes, BUT RETHUGS always seem to get away with it through the self made LOOP holes!!

[SamuelAdams]

18. This is unreal.

They're the ones who voted for this. They should have to suffer the consequences, not be bailed out over and over again by the rest of us.

[republianmushroom]

19. Well trump does spread a lot of bullshit.

[paleotn]

20. He's doing a Lucy again

He won't do anything of any substance. He'll snatch the football away.