It's no question that the price of diesel has an impact on the bottom line of farming. Virtually all mobile machinery on a farm runs on diesel.
Joe Lerew, a fruit grower, slowly drives a tractor across the rolling hills of his Adams County farm planting apple trees. Even without paying road taxes for farm diesel fuel, it costs Lerew $3.80 cents a gallon.

According to Lerew, the high price of fuel has made it costly for the west cost to market apples here giving him a cost advantage, and since Pennsylvania is cradled between Washington, D.C., Boston and New York, there is a hungry market for fruit craving to shed the cost of transportation.

Buying food produced close to home means less fuel is burned from seed to dinner table.