By Haley Weger
KPLC
Lake Charles, LA - As fuel prices continue to soar, local farmers are among those feeling the pain at the pump.
We spoke to one farmer who says between the fuel costs and fertilizer costs, he is spending more than double what he did last year.
Farming can be a gamble for every harvest, but recent price hikes of fuel and fertilizer add even more stress.
“We’ve seen nitrogen, phosphate, potash, diesel - again, triple digit increases just in a span of four or five months, and that creates so much volatility and so much uncertainty in the amount that producers are gonna need to produce to covet that big increase in variable cost,” said Mike Deliberto with the LSU Ag Center.