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Diesel and fertiliser are shooting up in price

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There are two things crucial to modern farming - synthetic fertiliser and diesel. So what happens when both of these commodities increase massively in price, but the crops they're used to grow remains the same price? That's precisely the dilemma facing Australian farmers as they prepare to plant their winter crops f…

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