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Diesel prices hit a record high amid woes for American farms

Diesel prices hit a record high amid woes for American farms

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September 11th, 2026

Diesel prices hit a record high amid woes for American farms

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The moment when diesel prices are hitting record highs coincides precisely with the very time when many American farmers must put their combines, tractors, and other equipment into operation in order to harvest two of the United States' most important agricultural commodities: soybeans and corn.

๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์€, ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋†๋ถ€๋“ค์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ฃผ์š”ํ•œ ๋†์‚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 rendering an already punishing year even more brutal for these farmers, who have also been grappling with escalating costs for fertilizer, seeds, and equipment.

์ด ๊ธ‰๋“ฑ์„ธ๋Š” ๋น„๋ฃŒยท์ข…์žยท์žฅ๋น„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋น„์šฉ ๋ถ€๋‹ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€๋„ ์”จ๋ฆ„ํ•ด ์˜จ ์ด ๋†๋ถ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์–ด ์ด๋ฏธ ํ˜น๋…ํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ•œ์ธต ๋” ๊ฐ€ํ˜นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

On September 4, diesel prices in the United States shattered all previous records, surging for the first time to an average of $5.85 per gallon, a consequence of the six-month war with Iran having disrupted global fuel distribution.

๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ 9์›” 4์ผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ์‹ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ž€๊ณผ์˜ 6๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„์˜ ์ „์Ÿ์ด ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์œ ํ†ต์„ ๊ต๋ž€ํ•œ ์—ฌํŒŒ๋กœ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐค๋Ÿฐ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  5.85๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์น˜์†Ÿ์•˜๋‹ค.

According to AAA, prices have climbed 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 inflict a profound blow," declared Paul Mitchell, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsinโ€“Madison.

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

"And it is by no means a problem confined to the harvest.

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

It is the transportation of everything โ€” moving grain or silage from the field to the farm, and from the farm to wherever they sell it โ€” that is at issue."

๊ณก๋ฌผ์ด๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ์ผ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋“คํŒ์—์„œ ๋†์žฅ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋†์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์˜ ์šด์†ก์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.โ€

Jason Kurtz, a farmer who cultivates corn and soybeans near Forest City, Missouri, lamented that his expenditure on diesel fuel has doubled this year.

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

His combine harvester consumes 200 gallons (750 liters) of fuel per day, and he anticipates operating it for 30 days.

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

Furthermore, he added that diesel fuel is also required to power his tractors and trucks.

๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ž™ํ„ฐ์™€ ํŠธ๋Ÿญ์„ ๊ตฌ๋™ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋””์ ค์œ ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

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

โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ™•์„ ๊ฐํ–‰ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•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 ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"We have to keep the machinery running.

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

We have to use diesel, and that is what is eating 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" as a consequence of having had to bear greater expenditures on fertilizer and chemicals.

49์„ธ์˜ ์ปค์ธ ๋Š” ๋น„๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ™”ํ•™๋ฌผ์งˆ์— ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐ ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ, ์˜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 currently 60% higher than they were before the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran in late February, when the national average stood at roughly $3.76 per gallon.

AAA์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์ด 2์›” ๋ง ์ด๋ž€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ๊ฐœ์‹œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ด์ „, ์ „๊ตญ ํ‰๊ท  ๊ฐค๋Ÿฐ๋‹น ์•ฝ 3.76๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ์‹œ์  ๋Œ€๋น„ ํ˜„์žฌ 60% ์ƒ์Šนํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ์ด๋‹ค.

Prices rose swiftly as crude oilโ€”the primary feedstock for diesel and gasolineโ€”surged owing to war-induced disruptions to tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

์ „์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ์•ผ๊ธฐ๋œ ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆˆ ํ•ดํ˜‘์˜ ์œ ์กฐ์„  ํ†ตํ•ญ ์ฐจ์งˆ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋””์ ค ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์†”๋ฆฐ์˜ ์ฃผ์›๋ฃŒ์ธ ์›์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ธ‰๋“ฑํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ์‹ ์†ํžˆ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"The more a farm finds itself grappling with a cash shortage, the more it is compelled to agonize most profoundly over precisely what it must scale back in order to bring that about," Mitchell remarked.

โ€œํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ถ€์กฑ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•œ ๋†์žฅ๋“ค์ผ์ˆ˜๋ก, ์ด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ถ•์†Œํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊นŠ์ด ๊ณ ์‹ฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฒ˜์ง€์— ๋†“์—ฌ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ์ฒผ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"There are no few farms that have found themselves in precisely such a predicament."

โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋ด‰์ฐฉํ•œ ๋†์žฅ์ด ์ ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค.โ€

Kurtz, who cast his vote for President Donald Trump, has announced that he intends to postpone certain farm operations, anticipating a decline in diesel prices.

๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์—๊ฒŒ ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋˜์ง„ ์ปค์ธ ๋Š” ๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์˜ ํ•˜๋ฝ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋†์žฅ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ถ”ํ›„๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ธฐํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

"That, precisely, is one of the virtues inherent in farming," he remarked.

โ€œ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด์•ผ๋ง๋กœ ๋†์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๋Š” ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋ฏธ๋•์ด๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Tomorrow, the situation will be markedly different."

โ€œ๋‚ด์ผ์€ ์–‘์ƒ์ด ํŒ์ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ํ„ฐ์ด๋‹ค.โ€

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