Rules around equipment repair continue to impact farmers (Alamance Co.)
Story Date: 7/29/2022

 

Source: Mary Helen Jones, SPECTRUM LOCAL NEWS, 7/28/22

For over 70 years, Michael McPherson’s family has farmed. His grandfather started as a dairy farmer, and Michael and his wife now farm corn and soybean. To get the crops from seed to harvest, it takes a lot of equipment. “We’ve got tractors. We’ve got combines, sprayers, even gators that we use around the farm all the time,” McPherson said. “So yeah, we keep a lot of equipment around here, and it’s a lot to keep up, a lot of maintenance.” To be successful, farmers need that equipment to work.

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