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Minnesota's farms and food industry face another pandemic growing season

The 2021 growing season is about to start in Minnesota, bringing fresh questions about how the state's sizable agriculture and food-processing industries will manage another pandemic spring.

Yet favorable weather and commodity prices last year drove an overall 45% increase in the net value of 13 major Minnesota crops, like soybeans and corn for grain, to $11.7 billion, federal data show. Declines in hog slaughter in April and May didn't stop the state's pork plants from processing 12 million animals throughout 2020, up 1% from the previous year.

Today, Minnesota has just as many live hogs and pigs as it did at this time last year - 9 million.

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-farms-and-food-industry-face-another-pandemic-growing-season/600039701/

 

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