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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

Agriculture Apr 6th 2020 - 5am

COVID-19 hits livestock industry hard

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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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Marty Myers, front center, on March 11 was elected chairman of the board of Potatoes USA, the marketing promotion arm of the U.S. potato industry. Myers is western business manager for Fargo-based R.D. Offutt Company, the largest potato producer in the world with operations in 12 U.S. states. The company grows 60,000 of irrigated potatoes among its 190,000 acres in the country. Photo taken March 11, 2020. Courtesy Potatoes USA

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Markets Apr 5th 2020 - 7am

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Mark Giddings, chief executive officer and founder of Giddings and Associates, accountants and consultants in Fargo, N.D., says farmers who have employees as well as sole proprietorships are should be eligible for loan/grants through the CARES Act, related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo taken April 3, 2020, in Fargo, N.D. Mikkel Pates / Agweek

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Farmers scramble for loans to cover payroll under CARES Act

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

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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

From left, Myrna Welter, Jason Welter, JoJo Welter and Randy Welter with grandchildren. (Contributed photo)

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This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shows the appearance of the novel coronavirus wich causes COVID-19. (Submitted / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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Weather

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Weather Apr 4th 2020 - 7am

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Agribusiness

Larry Tammel, co-owner of Harmony Spirits in Harmony, Minn., looks over the World Health Organization’s recipe for hand sanitizer. The distillery is helping fill a need in the community. (Noah Fish / Agweek)

Business Apr 3rd 2020 - 5am

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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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