Deere Workers Go on Strike After UAW Fails to Reach Deal

“The farm debt-to-income ratio suggests the land market is not so heavily leveraged that a downturn in profits will bring a rush of forced land sales that would crush land values in the short term,” says Mike Walsten, contributing editor to LandOwner.

Thousands of Deere & Co workers began a strike on Thursday, days after overwhelmingly rejecting a six-year labor contract that was agreed on with the tractor maker.

“This marks day one of the beginning for how we can measure how these practices are being used,” says Corey Rosenbusch, The Fertilizer Institute CEO.

Still no word on RFS proposed levels, Chinese corn prices drop to align with wheat and dissatisfied workers walk out at Deere and other major companies.

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