2021 Fall Farm

Page 14 2021 Logan County Fall Farm Outlook Lincoln Daily News Oct. - Nov. 2021 upply Chain Crisis” has become the hot button phrase for many news media sources over the last few weeks. Especially, now that President Biden has vowed to correct the problem by bringing to port all those barges full of consumable goods sitting off the California coast. The fact is the supply chain issues have been ongoing for more than a year, and some of our major manufacturing companies have felt the heat of not being able to fill orders, not being able to complete production on items and indeed parking unfinished inventory in factory parking lots while they await the arrival of necessary components. Among those necessary components is the ever important micro-chip or semi-conductor now commonplace in many items including cars, trucks, tractors and combines. Travis Jones, CEO for LHP Telematics explained the situation companies like his have been in and how they got there in an article published on April 24, 2021by agrinews-pubs. com In “Chip shortage affects ag industry — and, no, it’s not the potato kind” Jones said that when the pandemic broke out, many companies that produce the chips in China Will the supply chain crisis force us back in time BY NILA SMITH Continue 4 “S