Putting cows on the front page since 1885.
Putting cows on the front page since 1885.
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Earlier this year, President Joe Biden signed an executive order calling for strengthening vulnerable agricultural supply chains and encouraging production here at home. In the past 18 months, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural producers, processors, and other small businesses revealed the dangerous effects of consolidation up and down the food supply chain. Farmers, processors, and retailers faced significant losses, and customers found product shortages and high prices. The pandemic isn’t the only issue. News of the r...
In spring 2020, we heard terrible stories of overburdened hospitals leading to preventable deaths in Italy. Soon after, these stories started to hit closer to home – New York City. Now, as COVID-19 surges to a new peak, these shortages have even reached rural areas, where hospital systems are already often under-resourced and understaffed. Across the country, rural communities are seeing record numbers of hospitalizations. As of last week, in the region surrounding Platte County, Neb., there was only one available intensive care unit (ICU) bed....
