Fuel and fertilizer costs are up.

Fertilizer costs are up big-time, and fuel costs went from $13,000 to $19,000 (for an average farm), and that's a huge increase. The concern is, what happens if we don't get that bumper crop next year? It's not likely that livestock is going to continue to be as profitable as it was last year.

unanticipated rise in fuel costs.

You want a balanced slow-release fertilizer that feeds the roots throughout the fall and is still around to fuel the stems and leaves next spring.

I wasn't really looking at it solely to save fuel costs, but the renderer who was picking up our dirty vegetable oil at the store told us he was going to start charging, so I decided to look into the car as a way to use our used cooking oil,

But it was the 39 percent rise in jet fuel costs in the last month alone that pushed us to make this decision.