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B.C. creating Iran war task force as farmers’ fertilizer and fuel costs surge

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The B.C. government is forming a task force to monitor the impacts of the war in Iran — but the province’s farmers are already feeling the pinch.
The war is causing major spikes in the price of both fuel and fertilizer just as planting season is getting underway.
“Between feed, fuel, and fertilizer, it’s completely out of sight right now, trying to make a living farming,” B.C. Conservative agriculture critic Ian Paton said at the legislature on Tuesday, April 14.
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