Iowa’s GOP Gov. Candidate Zach Lahn: Farmers Are Struggling with Higher Costs, When You Add the High Cost of Diesel, ‘We Really Have a Problem’

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LAHN: "Well I think when you talk about what’s going on with affordability for farmers and by the way this is something we launched our campaign on in the beginning. You have to take a step back and really understand what’s been going on for decades in the agriculture industry where we’ve seen consolidation after consolidation of businesses taking choice and competition away from farmers. We’ve reached monopoly stages there And now what we’re seeing with some of the increased prices on diesel it’s kind of just another one of these pieces that’s adding up to that. And we’ve been focused you know in the state on how do we cut the gas tax and other priorities to help farmers have more affordable fuel when they go into harvest. So this has been a part of our campaign since the very beginning And I really think farmers understand that for a long time they have been treated as price takers And really the deck has been stacked against them And now when you add in the higher cost of diesel we really have a problem"