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The Saturday Harvest 🌾

A round-up of stories we found this week on coronavirus, food policy and farming

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Here's our Saturday morning roundup of stories we've come across this week from our colleagues. If you can read them with a cup of coffee, all the better. Stay safe and healthy.

The Mercury News | by Manuela Tobias | April 20, 2020


The Hill | by Alex Gangitano | April 19, 2020


The Counter | by Sam Block | April 16, 2020


Closure of Smithfield and other plants forces South Dakota pork producers to consider desperate measures’

South Dakota News Watch | April 21, 2020

Sizing up the new farm rescue package

Politico | April 20, 2020

Coronavirus-driven CO2 shortage threatens US food and water supply, officials say

The Guardian | April 20, 2020

How the COVID-19 pandemic is sending American agriculture into chaos

PBS | April 20, 2020

'Horrible choices': Iowa livestock producers may have to euthanize pigs as packing plants struggle

Des Moines Register | April 21, 2020



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