SUN JOURNAL • December 26, 2022
Farmers in Maine have been complaining for years that they can’t find enough people to help harvest crops, while others have resorted to changing the way they farm. It’s the old business adage — do more with less. Enter Justin Triquet and his business partner and wife, Nikki Leroux, who started JustNiks Rent-A-Farmers earlier this year. Leroux said, “We get all the calls from struggling farmers…having a hard time getting their employees to get a day off because they’re working seven days a week instead of five days a week. We come in and help rescue some of those hours.” “We rent ourselves out to homesteads, all they way up to large production farms,” Triquet said. “And we rent ourselves out for short- and mid-term projects on a contractual basis.”