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Few things are more important to a farmer than harvesting his crops, yet farmers in the Ukraine are taking measures to prevent that very action. Many are now destroying harvest equipment to keep the Russian army from confiscating the wheat currently ripening in fields.
“Some of our clients in the Ukraine have been actually damaging their combines, so the Russians can't combine the wheat,” says Dan Basse, president of AgResource Company.
“It’s a war zone. It’s messy. It’s a shame, and our hearts bleed for the Ukrainians who are being harmed,” Basse told AgriTalk host Chip Flory on Monday.