Max Armstrong shares that farmers are facing the same input cost challenges from around the world. He offers a look at farmer examples from Australia, where a mango producer says he's seen costs double, and he shares what he's done to cut costs, but that may not be enough. In India, a farmer there who grows rice and wheat, on just two acres, uses diesel for pumping water and managing the crop, skyrocket. And Brazil, farmers are buying up fertilizer inputs now to get supply on hand.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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