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Cost of gas to food, were seeing record prices at the grocery store, and it could get even worse. grady trimble is digging deeper into all of this in princeton, illinois. grady? >> reporter: edward, americas farmers are dealing with rising prices for essentials like fertilizer, up 30% from a year ago. fuel to run their equipment up 50-60% from last year. even the farm equipment itself costs more. evan holstein is a corn and soybean farmer out here in illinois, so connect the dots for us as to ho...

Colorado. the prosecution presents first and lays out a timeline of events that led up to the bombing. by mid-1994, mcveigh and nichols, along with their army friend michael fortier, were ready to put their plan into action. mcveigh decided the most effective weapon would be a truck bomb. in september 1994, mcveigh and nichols begin stockpiling ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer often used in truck bombs. >> you combine the ammonium nitrate, the oxidizer with the fuel and you have an explosive mixtu...

I looked to my wife, it was a car bomb. >> early indications are the bomb was a half-ton homemade bomb made of common fertilizer and fuel oil. >> fortunately, the axle housing contains the trucks confidential vehicle identification number. >> using that number, we were able to trace the vehicle itself and identify it as a ford motor product that had been made for ryder rental company. >> the ryder company informs the fbi this particular truck was assigned to elliotts body shop in junction city, ...

Travelers or workers and they could not get the hay across. so i started researching with some different ag perspectives and from fertilizer coming down to parts coming down, to livestock being back and forth with feed it really went to a stand still here for about a week. >> dana: lets put it on the board. montana exports to canada 554 million goods. this is all sorts of things from vegetables, to tobacco products and montana imports from canada. crude, petroleum, fertilizers and especially lum...

And well also talk about the issues that impact the whole country. so, well get there if you, and will make sure they have a view that meets the needs of this country, and from my perspective, of rural america. >> the canadian anti-vaccination trucker protest has come to the montana canadian border, an important border crossing their. theyve managed to close that down. what does that do too agriculture, imports exports across that border? >> look, its a problem. i mean, we use that border, canad...

Trying to buy stuff early and right but the product is not coming across all of a sudden were about six weeks away from our seeding and it is a very big concern in talking with some of the local guys selling fertilizer they are concerned about getting product to their customers. >> dana: you told one of our producers everyone could be paying $50 for steak if this continues. youve written to the president. talked to the governor. have you heard anything from them that could get this moving? >> i ...

Inflation was going to be temporary. a lot of americans are wondering what your definition of temporary is? >> youre being a wise guy with me a little bit. >> cell, emily, hes a being all wise guy for asking a question, but is not just calling lester holt a wise guy, hes calling the american people wise guys. its the number one for the american issue. >> this is just another example of this president thinking hes better than all of us. lester even said in that moment that a lot of americans are ...

Theyve managed to close that down. what does that do too agriculture, imports exports across that border? >> look, its a problem. i mean, we use that border, canada as a trading partner. and theres a lot of products that cross that border. probably, two months away from planting season, a lot of fertilizer comes across the border, into montana. look, we need a trucking industry that works, and i think their ability to protest and make their voices heard is important. and i support that. but shut...

Inflation numbers show prices at wholesalers pay rising 9.7% over last year. fastest pace weve seen in decades. increased farm costs could mean higher pricing in grocery stores during the next few months. a second generation farmer out of north carolina joins us from raleigh. thank you for joining us. i will show you something that you already know. this is contract labor for farms from the year 2020 to 2021. the labor is up 45, fertilizer 18. you got your gas is up 226%, maintenance almost 90. ...

Now its my time. >> he just loved the hill country. there were so many memories of his childhood, his mother, his family, his dad, growing up there. i could almost sense his going into a relaxed state of mind. >> one of the things i enjoyed most was being able to go to bed after the 10:00 news at night and to sleep until daylight the next morning. i dont remember ever having an experience like that in the five years i was in the white house. >> he had had a rough five years. five years of great ...