Across the world, a dearth of workers is shaking up food supply chains

Supplies are getting hit and some employers are forced to raise wages at a double-digit pace. 

In Vietnam, the army is assisting with the rice harvest. In the UK, farmers are dumping milk because there are no truckers to collect it. 

Brazil’s robusta coffee beans took 120 days to reap this year, rather than the usual 90. And American meatpackers are trying to lure new employees with Apple Watches while fast-food chains raise the prices of burgers and burritos.