The Washington Post · Letter to the Editor · September 9, 2026
Washington Keeps Bailing Out Farmers
A letter on what the war is doing to the farm economy: fertilizer prices jumped when the Strait of Hormuz closed, Washington reached for the checkbook, and farmers promised independence are now kept afloat by the largest federal share of farm income in a generation. The argument is that they deserve an economy that survives without a bailout, not another speech.