When Covid-19 hits a rural meatpacking plant, county infection rates soar to five times the average

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Feeding refugees on the U.S.-Mexico border was always a challenge. Now there’s Covid-19. 

Charting the spread of Covid-19 in the food system

‘The workers are being sacrificed’: As cases mounted, meatpacker JBS kept people on crowded factory floors

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Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

Covid-19, ‘this global tragedy,’ flattens U.S. ag exports

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For rural grocery stores, the pandemic is personal

May 31, 2020

Farmers markets fought to stay open during the pandemic. Now many can’t make ends meet.

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Hog farms in coronavirus crisis need more aid, say producers

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Farmworkers at Driscoll’s supplier demand fair pay, safe conditions amid pandemic

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The lethal Covid-19 connection between meatpacking plants and rural communities

May 28, 2020

As U.S. hog backup tops 2 million head, Iowa says it will help pay for carcass disposal

By ,  May 27, 2020

Senate Democrats propose $7.5 billion to build food supply

May 27, 2020

Grocery prices rising at highest rate since 2012

By ,  May 26, 2020

Poultry slaughter slides but not as far as beef and pork

May 26, 2020

USDA gave Food Box contracts to novices, say lawmakers

May 26, 2020

Red meat production plunges 23 percent during April amid pandemic

By ,  May 21, 2020

FERN’s Friday Feed: The Texas fishing industry in crisis

Editor’s Desk – Covid-19 and the food supply

Trump’s executive order seeks controversial overhaul of seafood industry

A burst of home-grown food, farming, in Alaska

As Covid-19 hobbles the industrial meat industry, small producers are having a moment

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What needs to change in America’s food system

When meat plants shutter, what happens to market-ready animals?

Coronavirus forces California farmworkers to scramble for safe drinking water

Praying for rain

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As pandemic spreads and growing season ramps up, farmworkers deemed ‘essential’ but still largely unprotected

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On the front lines at a North Carolina food bank

The coronavirus has laid bare restaurant workers’ ‘tip to mouth’ existence

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