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Diesel prices are hitting record highs at a difficult time for American farmers

Diesel prices are hitting record highs at a difficult time for American farmers

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September 11th, 2026

Diesel prices are hitting record highs at a difficult time for American farmers

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The timing of record-high diesel prices coincides precisely with the moment when many American farmers must operate combines, tractors, and other equipment to harvest two of the nation's largest crops: soybeans and corn.

๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์€, ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋†๋ถ€๋“ค์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋†์‚ฐ๋ฌผ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€์ธ ๋Œ€๋‘์™€ ์˜ฅ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฝค๋ฐ”์ธ, ํŠธ๋ž™ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์žฅ๋น„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋™ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๋•Œ์™€ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

This surge is making an already brutal year even harsher for these farmers, who have also had to contend with rising costs for fertilizer, seeds, and equipment.

์ด ๊ธ‰๋“ฑ์„ธ๋Š” ๋น„๋ฃŒ, ์ข…์ž ๋ฐ ์žฅ๋น„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋น„์šฉ ์ƒ์Šน์—๋„ ์ง๋ฉดํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ด ๋†๋ถ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฏธ ํ˜น๋…ํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ•œ์ธต ๋” ๊ฐ€ํ˜นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

On September 4, diesel prices in the United States reached a record level, driven by a six-month war with Iran that disrupted global fuel flows, surging to an average of $5.85 per gallon for the first time.

๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ 9์›” 4์ผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ด๋ž€๊ณผ์˜ 6๊ฐœ์›” ์ „์Ÿ์ด ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•œ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐค๋Ÿฐ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  5.85๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์น˜์†Ÿ์•˜๋‹ค.

According to AAA, prices have risen further since then, trading at an average of $6.05 per gallon on Friday.

AAA์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ์ดํ›„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์—๋Š” ๊ฐค๋Ÿฐ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  6.05๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

"Those prices come as a considerable blow," said Paul Mitchell, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

โ€œ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ํƒ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์œ„์Šค์ฝ˜์‹ -๋งค๋””์Šจ ๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ๋†์—… ๋ฐ ์‘์šฉ ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™ ๊ต์ˆ˜์ธ ํด ๋ฏธ์ฒผ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"And it isn't just a matter confined to the harvest.

โ€œ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ์ˆ˜ํ™•์— ๊ตญํ•œ๋œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The transportation of everything is involved โ€” hauling grain or silage from the fields to the farm, and then from the farm to the point of sale."

๊ณก๋ฌผ์ด๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ์ผ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋“คํŒ์—์„œ ๋†์žฅ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋†์žฅ์—์„œ ํŒ๋งค์ฒ˜๋กœ ์šด์†กํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์˜ ์šด์†ก์ด ๊ด€๋ จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

Jason Kurtz, a farmer who grows corn and soybeans near Forest City, Missouri, said his spending on diesel has doubled this year.

๋ฏธ์ฃผ๋ฆฌ์ฃผ ํฌ๋ ˆ์ŠคํŠธ ์‹œํ‹ฐ ์ธ๊ทผ์—์„œ ์˜ฅ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜์™€ ๋Œ€๋‘๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋ฐฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋†๋ถ€ ์ œ์ด์Šจ ์ปค์ธ ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋””์ ค์— ์ง€์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ ๋Š˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

His combine consumes 200 gallons (750 liters) of fuel a day, and he expects to run it for 30 days.

๊ทธ์˜ ์ฝค๋ฐ”์ธ์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— 200๊ฐค๋Ÿฐ(750๋ฆฌํ„ฐ)์˜ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ 30์ผ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๋™ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

In addition, he needed diesel to power his tractors and trucks.

์•„์šธ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ž™ํ„ฐ์™€ ํŠธ๋Ÿญ ๊ตฌ๋™์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋””์ ค์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"We have to harvest," he remarked in an interview conducted on Tuesday at his farm, roughly 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Kansas City.

โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ™•์„ ํ•ด์•ผ๋งŒ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ™”์š”์ผ ์บ”์ž์Šค์‹œํ‹ฐ์—์„œ ์•ฝ 90๋งˆ์ผ(145ํ‚ฌ๋กœ๋ฏธํ„ฐ) ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋†์žฅ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"We have to keep the machinery running.

โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋™ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Since we have to use diesel, it is what eats into our profits."

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋””์ ค์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ์ž ์‹ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.โ€

Kurtz, 49, lamented that his financial situation this year was "already tight" after he had to pay more for fertilizer and chemicals.

49์„ธ์˜ ์ปค์ธ ๋Š” ๋น„๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ™”ํ•™๋ฌผ์งˆ์— ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ดํ›„, ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์žฌ์ • ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด โ€œ์ด๋ฏธ ๋น ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ํ† ๋กœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to AAA, diesel prices in the United States are now 60% higher than they were before the US and Israel launched a war against Iran in late February, when the national average stood at about $3.76 per gallon.

AAA์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์ด 2์›” ๋ง ์ด๋ž€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ๊ฐœ์‹œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „, ์ „๊ตญ ํ‰๊ท  ๊ฐค๋Ÿฐ๋‹น ์•ฝ 3.76๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€๋˜ ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ˜„์žฌ 60% ๋” ๋น„์‹ธ๋‹ค.

Prices climbed rapidly as crude oil, the primary raw material for diesel and gasoline, surged owing to wartime disruptions to tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

์ „์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆˆ ํ•ดํ˜‘์˜ ์œ ์กฐ์„  ํ†ตํ–‰ ์ฐจ์งˆ๋กœ ๋””์ ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์†”๋ฆฐ์˜ ์ฃผ์›๋ฃŒ์ธ ์›์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ธ‰๋“ฑํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"It is cash-strapped farms that will have to think hardest about what they can cut back on in order to make this happen," Mitchell said.

โ€œํ˜„๊ธˆ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๋†์žฅ๋“ค์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ค„์—ฌ์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณณ๋“ค์ด๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ์ฒผ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"There are many farms facing that situation."

โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•œ ๋†์žฅ์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค.โ€

Kurtz, who is hoping for a drop in diesel prices, stated that heโ€”having voted for President Donald Trumpโ€”plans to postpone some farm work until later.

๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์˜ ํ•˜๋ฝ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ปค์ธ ๋Š”, ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋†์žฅ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ถ”ํ›„๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ธฐํ•  ๋ฐฉ์นจ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

"That is one advantage of farming," he said.

ใ€Œใใ‚ŒใŒ่พฒๆฅญใฎไธ€ใคใฎๅˆฉ็‚นใงใ‚ใ‚‹ใ€ใจๅฝผใฏ่ฟฐในใŸใ€‚

"Tomorrow, the situation will change completely."

ใ€Œๆ˜Žๆ—ฅใฏ็ŠถๆณใŒไธ€ๅค‰ใ™ใ‚‹ใงใ‚ใ‚ใ†ใ€‚ใ€

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