New reporting from CNBC details how the war in Iran is jacking up fertilizer prices and threatening to raise food prices. Jake Johnson highlighted what he has been hearing from farmers all across southern Minnesota: that prices are already too high, and Brad Finstad’s support for the war in Iran is making everything worse.

Just today, Jake stopped by the North American Farm and Power Show in Owatonna, where a local corn farmer shared his concerns about the rising cost of fertilizer. 

Read the key takeaways:

CNBC: “Iran-induced fertilizer shortage threatens Republicans in farm states ahead of midterms”

• The murky farm outlook also comes eight months before the midterm elections that could cost Trump control of both the House of Representatives and Senate. Democrats, who are trying to win competitive seats in farm-heavy states like Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska, are jumping on the high fertilizer prices as a new example of the affordability issue that continues to haunt Trump and Republicans.
  
  

• “There are tons of people just like me in our district who are like, I don’t get it. I don’t understand. It was already hard, and now they’re making it harder, and nobody knows why,” said Jake Johnson, a public schoolteacher who is running for Congress in Minnesota’s first district against incumbent Republican Rep. Brad Finstad.
  
  

• “Our number one job as a campaign and what we want to talk about to every single person we talk to is we need ways to make things cheaper,” Johnson said. [...]
  
  

• Johnson said farmers in particular are recoiling from Trump’s tariff campaign, which saw his White House authorize a roughly $12 billion bailout last year. The war now adds a new inflationary wrinkle.
  
  

• “A vote for me is a vote to end tariffs, and it’s a vote to end the war,” he said. “We do have to start by undoing the obvious damage that the status quo has foisted upon us.”