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Corn prices keep slumping, and Minnesota farmers keep planting more
Farmers call it "plant and pray." With supply far outpacing demand, another huge corn crop is projected in 2020.
U.S. farmers will get $16 billion in direct aid because of COVID-19
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Minnesota farmer charged with cheating grain elevator
Federal prosecutors say he had two co-conspirators who worked at the CHS elevator in Herman.
JBS reopens Worthington plant to kill pigs without processing them
Minnesota's biggest pork processing plant reopened for grim duty: killing pigs without turning them into food. The job will help farmers who are contending with barns that are full and crowded by new pigs being born every day.
Manure, fertilizers overload parts of Minnesota with nitrogen, mapping project finds
Group tracks where nearly 50 million tons of animal waste goes on Minnesota fields, adding nitrates to wells, rivers and lakes.
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Virus hit meat plants just as workers asked to speed up
Even as the outbreak began to force plants to temporarily close last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture continued granting permission to chicken processors to boost speeds by 25% on production lines.
Hormel's sales surge but profit is squeezed on COVID-related costs
Executives said they expect costs to be about $30 million to $40 million above previous expectations for each of the next two quarters.
As virus loomed, Worthington pork plant refused to slow down
A week before JBS idled its Worthington pork plant, it was clear that meatpacking plants had become clusters of the virus. But until April 20, JBS was running the plant, which can slaughter as many as 21,000 hogs a day, at full tilt. JBS has made strides since shutting down, but workers say it was slow to react
Next to a vineyard in southwest Minnesota, a site for euthanized hogs
Tens of thousands of pigs have been euthanized in Minnesota in recent weeks thanks to the shutdowns of meatpacking plants after outbreaks of coronavirus among workers. The site where euthanized hogs are ground into compost in Nobles County is a wide open field across the road from a lakeside vineyard.
Testing uneven, or nonexistent, at meatpacking plants with COVID-19 outbreaks
The only guidance from the federal government has been that meat processors should "consider" tests.