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Mike Kelly, center, a farmer from Niagara, N.D., stands with his South African workers Jason Griesel, 24, and Hanrich Scholdz, 23. The two just barely made on a flight before the country was shut to overseas flights by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service

Business Apr 6th 2020 - 5am

South African farm workers coming to US jarred by COVID-19

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Cattle, specialty crop growers look to CARES Act relief

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Rural road flooding causes headaches for farmers

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AgweekTV Full Show: Ag business continues, H-2A in a pandemic, Operation Dignity International

AgweekTV for April 4-5, 2020 features how ag business are carrying on during the pandemic, how H-2A workers arrived in the U.S. ahead of a shutdown and a Minnesota farmer helps out in Ghana.

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Farm groups are concerned COVID-19 will cause disruptions to the food supply chain, including the meat processing business. (Michelle Rook / Agweek)

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Columns Apr 3rd 2020 - 5am

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Cows at VanBedaf Dairy eat placidly while attendees at LegenDAIRY III, a dairy open house and promotional event, walk by. Photo taken June 2, 2019. (Jenny Schlecht/Agweek)

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Markets Apr 5th 2020 - 7am

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For the first time, farm businesses are dealing with the Small Business Administration, which is doling out help in the COVID-19 criis through the CARES Act.
Photo taken April 3, 2020, in Fargo, N.D. Mikkel Pates / Agweek

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Soil Health

Jeffrey Miller is the Cass County Soil Conservation District director. Photo taken Feb. 25, 2019, in Fargo. (Mikkel Pates / Agweek)

People Apr 2nd 2020 - 5am

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Crops

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U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D. (clockwise from upper right); Ken Barbic, U.S. Department of Agriculture assistant secretary for congressional relations; Robert Johansson, USDA chief economist; and Brad Thykeson, North Dakota state executive director for the Farm Service Agency, on April 3, 2020, meet with farm groups online about federal COVID-19 relief under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Photo taken April 3, 2020, in Fargo, N.D. Mikkel Pates / Agweek

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Livestock

Pig carcasses hang from an overhead conveyor at a Smithfield Foods Inc. pork processing facility in Milan, Mo., on April 12, 2017. Daniel Acker / Bloomberg

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COVID-19 virus photographed through a powerful microscope. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like. NIAID-RML

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Barry Batcheller is chairman of the board of Appareo Systems LLC, Fargo, and is a senior adviser to a 100 percent autonomous farm project described as Grand Farm Initiative. Photo taken Aug. 30, 2018, Fargo, N.D. (Mikkel Pates / Agweek)

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