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MORNING Midwest Digest, April 14, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about different state stay-home orders and their impacts, a possible shift to more soybeans and a chilly morning across the heartland. Some in Michigan are angry and planning to...
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Slaughterhouses start to shut down
Smithfield shutters South Dakota plant due to COVID-19, Colorado plant winding down operations. By Isis Almeida and Michael HirtzerOn Sunday, one of America’s largest pork slaughterhouses shut down...
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Coronaviruses commonly affect livestock, poultry
While the human coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak gains attention, livestock coronaviruses are common worldwide. While many people are hearing about coronavirus for the first time as the COVID-19 strain...
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MIDDAY Midwest Digest, April 14, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about more job losses, snowy weather, farm bankruptcies and a call for help from the dairy industry. There's another wave of job losses coming.More snow could be on the way for...
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How to get your farm through COVID-19
From plans to relief packages, marketing tips to mental health, here are some things you can do right now to keep your farm going during the novel coronavirus outbreak. The outbreak of COVID-19 in the...
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Digging into pork's food processing, income challenges
In a special Around Farm Progress Xtra, editors from National Hog Farmer share insight on the impact of food industry factory closings Plants shuttered as workers get sick from COVID-19 even as...
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Max Armstrong shares insight on what's happening in the dairy industry in the wake of coronavirus Max Armstrong offers a look at the dairy industry with insight from Rabo Research a division of...
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MORNING Midwest Digest, April 15, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about the tax deadline, corn planting progress, meat supplies and dressing for the workday. It's tax deadline day! Or, well, it was. This year you have three extra months.As of...
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MIDDAY Midwest Digest, April 15, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about winter weather, the Farm Progress Show and Paul Harvey. Winter weather just keeps coming, causing a traffic pile-up in Chicago this morning.At this point, the Farm Progress...
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Farm Progress America, April 16, 2020
Max Armstrong shares an analyst's perspective on the core issue facing the meat packing industry Max Armstrong offers insight from one analyst who saw a labor crisis in the meat packing industry...
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MORNING Midwest Digest, April 16, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about more snow, the food supply chain, to-go-cocktails, new packaging for Land O Lakes butter and a funeral for a firefighter who died from COVID-19. Yet again, there's snow...
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MIDDAY Midwest Digest, April 16, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about reduced death rates, restaurant closures, a barn fire, a split-open grain bin and shovel-able snow. In several states, death rates from the novel coronavirus have been...
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Finding the goodwill and lighthearted during COVID-19
A state of uncertainty has brought out the good in people and organizations across the country. As the darkness of COVID-19 grew, farm families, ag organizations and rural communities came together to...
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Farm Progress America, April 17, 2020
Max Armstrong offers one expert's thoughts on coronavirus, it's spread and potential impact on the food industry Max Armstrong shares insight from Richard Raymond, a food safety expert, who discusses...
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MORNING Midwest Digest, April 17, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about the weekend weather, a meat-packing city hit hard with COVID-19, the corn market and more. The nice thing about an April snow is that it doesn't stay long. Temps should warm...
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ROI for cattle can be awesome
Return on investment can be good, but the market still isn’t paying much for weight gain. This week I received a lot of peer pressure to write about certain things, and to be a part of certain...
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MIDDAY Midwest Digest, April 17, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about heavy snow, destruction of the energy market and heartland entrepreneurs. It turns out the snow that fell in some parts of the midwest wasn't shovelable at all, because it...
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This Week in Agribusiness, April 18, 2020
Mike Pearson is manning the desk this week and Max Armstrong is hosting from home as we talk about COVID-19’s continuing impact on agriculture with a special focus on livestock. Part 1Note: The video...
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USDA announces coronavirus aid package
The aid package includes $19 billion in aid to farmers and ranchers as well as part of an effort to maintain the integrity of the food supply chain. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today...
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Secretary Perdue outlines COVID-19 aid support
Checks in the mail by May with $16 billion in direct payments to farmers and $3 billion bulk government purchases in wake of pandemic fallout. In an unveiling of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s...
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