Source: Ben Popken, NBC NEWS, 3/12/21


For the farmers in charge of keeping America fed, the past year has been one of “feast or famine.” Commodity prices were depressed at the outset as trade tiffs with China cut demand for exports. Then, the pandemic’s supply chain snarls backed up logistics. The shutdown of restaurants and school cafeterias slashed a key market for many producers, who scrambled to find new buyers and ways to package their items for new retail markets. Labor supply, already strained by tighter border controls...

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