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

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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

Trump’s executive order seeks controversial overhaul of seafood industry

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Red meat production plunges 23 percent during April amid pandemic

By ,  May 21, 2020

USDA creates coronavirus loan guarantees for rural businesses and farmers

May 21, 2020

Covid-19 looms over refugee camp on the U.S.-Mexico border

May 21, 2020

USDA’s keep-it-open power extended to fruits and vegetables

May 21, 2020

When it comes to RFS petitions, Wheeler makes no promises

By ,  May 20, 2020

Half of SNAP recipients can buy groceries online

May 20, 2020

Coronavirus aid slanted against local food, says small-farm group

May 20, 2020

Trump launches coronavirus aid to agriculture, with a $750,000 top payment

By ,  May 19, 2020

Charting the spread of Covid-19 in the food system

May 19, 2020

Schools are feeding millions of children. Now they face huge losses.

By ,  May 18, 2020

Meat production to rebound sharply after coronavirus slowdown – USDA

May 18, 2020

House votes to double coronavirus payments to agriculture

By ,  May 17, 2020

FERN’s Friday Feed: In times of knead

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

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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Editor’s Desk: Coronavirus and the food system

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