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Farmers struggle due to trucker shortage

Oct 19, 2021 at 10:29 AM CST

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Gas prices are rising and employing truckers is getting harder by the day. These facts are nothing new, but News 40 investigated how these struggles impact Southcentral Kentucky’s local farmers. Farmer Tom Tucker’s father moved here in 1969, and since then Tom, his father and his son have farmed 2,800 acres in Bowling Green.