Well, we have, but what it's done is taken us from a profitable situation to the most severe losses that we've seen in our history as a company. The U.S. government estimates that 200,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since March. Business for the truckers that ship Geneva's steel is off, as it for the company's other suppliers. Projects and services that expected to benefit from Micron's expansion have been placed on hold. Suppliers of farm equipment and chemicals are also hurting, as agriculture feels the pinch.
Agricultural prices are very much depressed.
At current prices they figure it would cost more to care for and harvest the apples than they could make selling them. And it just gets you in the heart. In a nearly empty packing shed Randall's brother, Sheldon, filled gift boxes purchased by a local bank for its customers. We would probably have around 35 people in this building - three or four out here and the rest in the packing area working today. Today we have none.