Posted on 10/12/2021 12:29:09 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Dale Hadden cannot find any spare tires for his combine harvester. So the Illinois farmer told his harvest crew to avoid driving on the sides of roads this autumn to avoid metal scraps that could shred tires.
New Ag Supply in Kansas is pleading with customers to order parts now for spring planting. And in Iowa, farmer Cordt Holub is locking up his machinery inside his barn each night, after thieves stole hard-to-find tractor parts from a local Deere & Co dealership.
"You try to baby your equipment, but we're all at the mercy of luck right now," said Holub, a fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer in Buckingham, Iowa.
Manufacturing meltdowns are hitting the U.S. heartland, as the semiconductor shortages that have plagued equipment makers for months expand into other components. Supply chain woes now pose a threat to the U.S. food supply and farmers' ability to get crops out of fields.
Farmers say they are scrambling to find workarounds when their machinery breaks, tracking down local welders and mechanics. Growers looking to buy tractors and combines online are asking for close-up photos of the machine's tires, because replacements are expensive and difficult to find, said Greg Peterson, founder of the Machinery Pete website which hosts farm equipment auctions.
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Wall Street and K Street/DC have sold out Main Street to China for the last 30 years, and this is one of the results.
Not to worry.
Nancy Pelosi and her socialist pals are ready to March into the fields and hand harvest everything.
Pull those turnips, comrade Nancy!
I seem to remember a lot of this sort of thing in “Atlas Shrugged”....
Ping.
no big deal its only food
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It all looks good on paper until a supply-chain disruption on part A causes shortages in B and C, which causes shortages on D, E, F, and G.
This is analogous to the 2008 breakdown in CDOs where financial leverage caused a massive breakdown.
Boy O Boy.
I read that 57 years ago.
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Racing tires already hard to find too.
FJB. I hope his silly snowflake supporters are pleased that the tweets have stopped.
I guarantee you the thieves are migrant farm workers/gangs from Central America. I see it everywhere.
Leftists have destroyed cities, and they are working on the countryside too
More food shortages means more population die-off. Bill Gates is ecstatic.
Imaging the wailing and the gnashing of teeth that would have occurred if any of this had happened under Trump’s watch.
Buttigieg needs to get his act together, soon.
...not to mention BIG SAVINGS on Social Security and Medicare!
starvation takes a long time....the kill shot will do just fine for the cabal...
I first read that book in 1974, at the age of 19. The last time I read it was maybe 2003, might be time again. If I can get through John Galt’s 50+ page speech, that is.
Families in the community better watch out for each other especially these times. Make sure to be a good neighbor with those around you when you’re still supplied.
Food only leads to gluttony for the masses anyway.
As long as high placed elites are ok, what else matters?
Along with every other uppity smug liberal.
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