The pandemic has dramatically slowed or closed many businesses and raised unemployment, but dairy farmer Lee Kinnard says COVID-19 has spiked demand for builders, creating a backlog in construction projects on the farm. “Builders are really backed up. They’re having issues, you know, with having enough labor, bringing on enough labor, and in some cases even the supplies are getting a little tight.”
Kinnard and his family operate a dairy farm near Casco, Wisconsin, and he tells Brownfield he’s hoping contractors can complete a new feed pad in the next two weeks before the earlier-than-normal corn silage harvest begins.
