May 18, 2026 • 6 mins
Ryan and Dana talk with National Correspondent Rory O’Neill about farmers growing increasingly desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices. Plus, Trump supporters express concern about the economy following his remarks about rising prices.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Ryan Gorman Show podcast presented by Farah and Farah
Accident Attorneys from Tampa.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
John Byern National correspondent Rory O'Neill. Farmers having big issues
and it's coming as you've got higher energy prices and
fertilizer prices and shortages of fertilized it's just it's a
mess for farmers across the country.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It is, and it's expected to only get more expensive
for us on the final end. You know, of the
whole country now is in the growing season, and what
we're seeing is diesel prices are up sixty percent from
where they were at this time last year.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
That's a huge jump.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And diesel is in everything.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
It's in the you need.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It for the equipment, to plan, to harvest, to then
bring it to the distributor, to then get it to
the supermarket shelf. I mean, every one of those steps
involves diesel. And they just can't absorb those costs. And
you know, we've got what beef is up nearly twenty percent.
Ground beef is up nearly twenty percent from where it
was a year ago. And they're expecting that if they
can't get access to or can't afford the fertilizer. That
(01:07):
means smaller crops, smaller yields, and that means the produce
we get is smaller in price.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, with beef prices rising like there, you imagine if
we had an issue with chickens like we did a
few years ago.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I mean, what we eat we.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Had to get or something, right, Yeah, they were, they were.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
He did buy tofu we'd be bailing out American farmers
now that China's not buying it.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So maybe not such a bad idea, true.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And in this report on some of the issues that
the farmers are dealing with, they quoted a few farmers
and one said his fuel bills jumped from four hundred
dollars to seven hundred dollars while container costs increased thirty percent.
And then you had a soybean farmer who was saying,
you know, they used to sell soybeans for a certain
(02:00):
out and it's gone down quite a bit because China
never followed through with their promise to buy a bunch
more soybeans.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think they made that promise again during Trump's recent
trip over there, but clearly, you know you can't trust them.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So and that's where a lot of our soy beans
were going.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So you have to eat more tofu right, You've got
to bail us out of this.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I don't think so. I've never tried it before, but
it never.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
No, it doesn't really appeal to me at all.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
No. I did try those like meatless meatballs once.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Oh, I've tried some of those, yeah, meatless stuff, and
it's just not good.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
No, I didn't like it.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
But at least for the farmers. At least for the farmers,
they always seem to get a bailout, right, And.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
There is an eleven billion dollar bailout that was passed
because of the tariffs that dropped the rise. So, but
that money has already been good, that's gone, that's out
to the farmers who applied for that release, or most
of it. I think something like nine point something billion
of the eleven billion has already been distributed out there.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, and there are things also beyond fuel prices and
the fertilizer issue that are impacting farmers. You've got, you know,
some of these droughts that we're seeing, extreme weather. I
mean we saw that here in Florida with some of
the freezes over the winter, like a.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Lot of dam oranges, and strawberries.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Get to our crops. So that's adding to these problems.
Our national correspondent Rory O'Neil with us this morning. Rory,
appreciate the update, Thanks so much. President Trump defended his
recent comment that he doesn't think about American's financial situations
while negotiating with Ron, calling it a perfect statement, saying
they need to make it again now. That was during
(03:44):
an interview with Brett Behar on Fox News, where Bear
also brought up some of his supporters whose finances have
taken a big hit.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
When you hear Trump voters, Alex says, I voted for
you three times. He just can't handle the costs. And
he's not for this foreign cop. He's not for the
foreign conflict. But Roy in Pennsylvania, he's a retired farmer.
He can't handle the fuel.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Going up, and he's just he says, it's gotta some
going very fast, and so fuck disappointed. I'm just talking
what they say to him, Roy, Alex, we got a problem.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
We just hit the.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Highest stock market price effort. By the way, then when
I went in now again it's higher with the war.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
It's higher than it was.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
What I went to think of that four oh one
case at their all time I.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That is all great, But if you're a retired farmer
who can't afford the gas, you don't care where the
market's at right now. That's the thing that I feel
like the President's missing in response to these questions that
he keeps getting. You throw out the dows at fifty thousand,
that's that's great for a lot of people in this country.
(04:57):
For many more, though, it doesn't matter. They can't get
through the week. They're struggling, and they can't afford to
pay their bills at the end of the month. That's
the issue.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Well, it's kind of tone def because a lot of
people they can't afford to buy stocks. They might not
even have a four to oh one case. So the
doll being great does not matter if you're not in
part of that, if you're not in that financial you
know demographic that has the money.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
In there right right.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And look, I understand the president's argument about needing to
go into Iran and the nuclear issue and all of that.
You can make a compelling case that he needed to
do what he did. But when you can't afford gas, groceries,
you know, utility costs, things like that and you're drowning
(05:43):
and you don't see a way out or this ending
anytime soon. You can understand where those Americans, they don't
care about the rationale for Iran, they're trying to get
through Today
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The Ryan Gorman schiw podcast Up We Set on iheartradioed
by Farah and Farah Accident Attorneys, Tampa,
So Ryan Gorman Show podcast presented by Farah and Farah
Accident Attorneys from Tampa.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
John Byern National correspondent Rory O'Neill. Farmers having big issues
and it's coming as you've got higher energy prices and
fertilizer prices and shortages of fertilized it's just it's a
mess for farmers across the country.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It is, and it's expected to only get more expensive
for us on the final end. You know, of the
whole country now is in the growing season, and what
we're seeing is diesel prices are up sixty percent from
where they were at this time last year.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
That's a huge jump.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And diesel is in everything.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
It's in the you need.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It for the equipment, to plan, to harvest, to then
bring it to the distributor, to then get it to
the supermarket shelf. I mean, every one of those steps
involves diesel. And they just can't absorb those costs. And
you know, we've got what beef is up nearly twenty percent.
Ground beef is up nearly twenty percent from where it
was a year ago. And they're expecting that if they
can't get access to or can't afford the fertilizer. That
(01:07):
means smaller crops, smaller yields, and that means the produce
we get is smaller in price.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, with beef prices rising like there, you imagine if
we had an issue with chickens like we did a
few years ago.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I mean, what we eat we.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Had to get or something, right, Yeah, they were, they were.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
He did buy tofu we'd be bailing out American farmers
now that China's not buying it.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So maybe not such a bad idea, true.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And in this report on some of the issues that
the farmers are dealing with, they quoted a few farmers
and one said his fuel bills jumped from four hundred
dollars to seven hundred dollars while container costs increased thirty percent.
And then you had a soybean farmer who was saying,
you know, they used to sell soybeans for a certain
(02:00):
out and it's gone down quite a bit because China
never followed through with their promise to buy a bunch
more soybeans.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think they made that promise again during Trump's recent
trip over there, but clearly, you know you can't trust them.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So and that's where a lot of our soy beans
were going.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So you have to eat more tofu right, You've got
to bail us out of this.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I don't think so. I've never tried it before, but
it never.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
No, it doesn't really appeal to me at all.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
No. I did try those like meatless meatballs once.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Oh, I've tried some of those, yeah, meatless stuff, and
it's just not good.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
No, I didn't like it.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
But at least for the farmers. At least for the farmers,
they always seem to get a bailout, right, And.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
There is an eleven billion dollar bailout that was passed
because of the tariffs that dropped the rise. So, but
that money has already been good, that's gone, that's out
to the farmers who applied for that release, or most
of it. I think something like nine point something billion
of the eleven billion has already been distributed out there.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, and there are things also beyond fuel prices and
the fertilizer issue that are impacting farmers. You've got, you know,
some of these droughts that we're seeing, extreme weather. I
mean we saw that here in Florida with some of
the freezes over the winter, like a.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Lot of dam oranges, and strawberries.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Get to our crops. So that's adding to these problems.
Our national correspondent Rory O'Neil with us this morning. Rory,
appreciate the update, Thanks so much. President Trump defended his
recent comment that he doesn't think about American's financial situations
while negotiating with Ron, calling it a perfect statement, saying
they need to make it again now. That was during
(03:44):
an interview with Brett Behar on Fox News, where Bear
also brought up some of his supporters whose finances have
taken a big hit.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
When you hear Trump voters, Alex says, I voted for
you three times. He just can't handle the costs. And
he's not for this foreign cop. He's not for the
foreign conflict. But Roy in Pennsylvania, he's a retired farmer.
He can't handle the fuel.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Going up, and he's just he says, it's gotta some
going very fast, and so fuck disappointed. I'm just talking
what they say to him, Roy, Alex, we got a problem.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
We just hit the.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Highest stock market price effort. By the way, then when
I went in now again it's higher with the war.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
It's higher than it was.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
What I went to think of that four oh one
case at their all time I.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That is all great, But if you're a retired farmer
who can't afford the gas, you don't care where the
market's at right now. That's the thing that I feel
like the President's missing in response to these questions that
he keeps getting. You throw out the dows at fifty thousand,
that's that's great for a lot of people in this country.
(04:57):
For many more, though, it doesn't matter. They can't get
through the week. They're struggling, and they can't afford to
pay their bills at the end of the month. That's
the issue.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Well, it's kind of tone def because a lot of
people they can't afford to buy stocks. They might not
even have a four to oh one case. So the
doll being great does not matter if you're not in
part of that, if you're not in that financial you
know demographic that has the money.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
In there right right.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And look, I understand the president's argument about needing to
go into Iran and the nuclear issue and all of that.
You can make a compelling case that he needed to
do what he did. But when you can't afford gas, groceries,
you know, utility costs, things like that and you're drowning
(05:43):
and you don't see a way out or this ending
anytime soon. You can understand where those Americans, they don't
care about the rationale for Iran, they're trying to get
through Today
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The Ryan Gorman schiw podcast Up We Set on iheartradioed
by Farah and Farah Accident Attorneys, Tampa,
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