Farmers say they sympathize with the desire for better wages, but they face equipment and parts shortages. A long strike could affect the food supply chain and their bottom lines.
fresh off the production line more than a decade ago.
"It's got us worried for sure," said Eric Hopkins, the senior vice president of Hundley Farms, which boasts 20,000 acres of mostly vegetables in central Florida."They're already low on inventory and parts right now. A strike is only going to exacerbate things, make it worse.
That's one issue highlighted by David Misener, who travels the country from May to November as a custom farmer. He brings farm equipment and harvests other people's crops for them. His timelines are tight, but he's had to wait long periods for repairs and parts multiple times this season — an unusual occurrence.
The price index for used tractors at Richie Bros. is up by 19 percent since last year, Ackley said. The company's website, where it hosts online auctions, has attracted more than 161 million visitors and 1.3 million bidders in 2021 — that’s up by 15 percent and 19 percent respectively from the same time a year ago.
"Some of the electronic parts have been really hard lately to get for the guidance systems on some of these tractors," Riley said."It's really hard to do anything with how highly computer-driven they are anymore, so that's a problem."
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