For South Dakota farmers, the war in Iran is far worse than it may seem

By: Rick Snedeker

Outlets: South Dakota Searchlight

Published: March 27, 2026

Words: 787

Last Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Iran is more than 6,000 miles from the U.S., but South Dakota farmers, as all American ag producers, are intimately feeling the catastrophic potential of our current war with that rogue Mideast nation.

Since Iran has vengefully halted the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow Persian Gulf chokepoint through which about 20% of the world’s petroleum transits, farmers everywhere have been collectively holding their breath as the critical crop-planting season …

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