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The Saturday Harvest 🌾

A round up of this week's coronavirus stories in ag, farming and food

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Coronavirus is in the forefront of all our minds. Today, we share some of the stories we have come across in the last week about how it is affecting Big Ag, small farmers, and other aspects of food in our life. Please stay safe and healthy.


Sanderson Farms slaughterhouse worker tests positive for COVID-19

Reuters March 23, 2020

FDA suspends most on site inspections because of COVID-19 concerns

Nutra Ingredients USA March 20, 2020

A Pa. farmer says we’re destroying crops, laying off workers as restaurants, cafeterias shut for coronavirus

Philadelphia Inquirer March 25, 2020

The Daily Yonder March 27, 2020

The effects of COVID-19 will ripple through food systems

Scientific American March 26, 2020


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