Todd Littleton is a third-generation farmer in Gibson County, Tennessee. This spring, his fertilizer bill jumped $100,000. That’s a 40% spike from last year. “The problem is, we’re so strained financially coming into this issue,” he told Fortune.
Littleton didn’t start a war with Iran. He didn’t close the Strait of Hormuz. He grows crops in West Tennessee. But the costs of a conflict 7,000 miles away landed on his doorstep in March, and they aren’t going away when the shooting stops.
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