Aren’t those the “Chemicals in the Water Making the Frickin’ Frogs Gay?”
Maybe Covid 19 is for the best.
Hay.
Short-term I’d stock up on your chemicals well before you need them. Don’t hold your breath for a long-term solution.
Get out the ole Row Crop 77 Oliver with mid-mount cultivators and weed the old school way.
I’m sure the price increase will take the sting out of the lack of sales for the chain suppliers.
“Pretty much the ports, the Long Beach, and then Galveston Texas–where some of this stuff is coming in–for every 17 loads there is one truck driver to do it.”
Eventually they’ll figure out that if more truckers are needed, they’ll have to pay wages needed to attract the additional people, as wage competition has gotten far worse, given that our government is paying something like $20/hour to NOT WORK.
...and yes, that means higher prices for all in this country, much higher.
In its current form, it only works for freshly seeded crops that have not yet broken the surface.
Within a few years, it will be modified to kill weeds through the entire crop cycle.
Bye Bye, Round Up and foreign farm labor.