Seabord experiences one employee has COVID-19

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Seabord experiences one employee has COVID-19

April 17, 2020 By Julie Harker Filed Below: 2020 Occasions, COVID-19, Information

Seaboard Meals says it’s had
one employee confirmed with COVID19 – at its Sioux Metropolis, Iowa pork plant.

“We want it was zero however really feel
very lucky that, at this level, it’s just one,” says Kevin Smith,
Seaboard’s vice chairman of gross sales and advertising, who was on the Kansas Metropolis
AgriBusiness Council on-line occasion Thursday.

Smith says Seaboard is creating
as a lot area between staff on the manufacturing line as they will, “Manufacturing
services aren’t the best locations to create distance however we’re attempting to
enhance issues each single day.”

Smith says they're taking
precautions in any respect of their vegetation, “We’ve carried out temperature checks at
all of our services. We’ve made facemasks obtainable in addition to necessary
inside all of our services. We’ve opened up some areas exterior our services
to principally increase the areas the place folks can have lunch or devour meals.”

Seaboard operates three pork
processing vegetation, in Oklahoma, Iowa and Missouri.

Research reveals massive losses for Iowa agriculture associated to COVID-19

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Research reveals massive losses for Iowa agriculture associated to COVID-19

An Iowa State College examine projecting the financial impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak reveals steep losses for Iowa agriculture, together with over two billion {dollars} every for the hog and ethanol sectors.

ISU ag economist Chad Hart says they projected the losses on
a month-by-month foundation via the top of the yr. However he says the ultimate numbers
may very well be much less, relying on how shortly the overall financial system recovers.

“That actually relies upon upon how COVID-19 responds to the social distancing that we’ve completed right here,” Hart says. “If we will flatten this curve and get it to the place we will restart the financial system, we will recuperate a few of these potential losses via better financial exercise.”

The Heart for Agricultural and Rural Improvement (CARD)
evaluation finds potential injury of $34 million for calves and feeder cattle,
$213 million for soybean, $658 million for fed cattle, $788 million for corn,
$2.1 billion for hogs and over $2.5 billion for ethanol.

Hyperlink to ISU information launch

Snow then hotter Missouri wx this weekend

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Snow then hotter Missouri wx this weekend

April 16, 2020 By Julie Harker Filed Beneath: Missouri, Information

Snow is forecast in a lot of Missouri tonight which isn't unparalleled this time of 12 months. College of Missouri climatologist Pat Guinan.

“We may have a reasonably important snow occasion throughout far northern
Missouri and southern Iowa.”

In an MU Extension on-line assembly about subject crops, Pat
Guinan says there could possibly be one to 3 inches of snow in northern Missouri
in a single day, with 4 or extra in southern Iowa.

Guinan says April precipitation has been considerably under
regular, “Particularly throughout the japanese half of Missouri, northwest tip of the
state. They’ve seen lower than a half inch over elements of east central and
southeast Missouri, so maybe a possibility to compensate for that whole or
deficit that we’ve seen thus far for the month.”

Guinan says a turnaround is coming, “It does appear like as
the weekend begins, lastly we’re going to begin rebounding again to hotter extra
seasonable situations.”

Temperatures in Missouri this week have been 20 to 25
levels under regular. Soil temperatures over the previous few days within the state
vary from the higher 40s in northern Missouri, mid-50s in central and elements of
southern Missouri, with the Bootheel soil temps within the higher 50s into the 60s.

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