diesel fuel

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The cost of diesel fuel for tractors and other farm machinery is also rising, leading farmers to cut whatever costs they can from their budgets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

“At every stage, someone on a tractor or someone in a truck had to do something, and that is diesel. And diesel fuel is way up.”

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

Off-season produce is vulnerable to higher prices because of the increased price of diesel fuel for trucks, refrigeration and fertilization, said Stanley Lim, co-director of Michigan State University’s Food Access & Supply Chain Technology Lab.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

Intermediate material and services inputs have seen substantial cost gains in recent months due to rising prices for diesel fuel, electronic components, industrial chemicals, and even meat.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Even in the snowstorm it smelled of salt and tar and more faintly of diesel fuel and rotting lumber.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson