One major Magic Valley crop is benefiting from the pandemic

Apr 20, 2020 at 10:10 AM CST
There aren’t many bright spots for Magic Valley agriculture right now in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. Farmers are dumping milk and potatoes onto the ground. Beef prices have taken a nosedive, and some processing plants have closed. When you look at wheat, corn, sugar beets, alfalfa and barley, there don't appear to be any big winners. Farming amid the coronavirus Roarey Kennedy, warehouse laborer, looks over a conveyor belt while it moves seed March 30 at Davidson and Company in Eden. DREW NASH, TIMES-NEWS With almost all the valley’s producers and processors suffering, it appears there's just one Magic Valley crop benefiting from the pandemic: Beans. Dry, edible beans.

Apr 20, 2020 at 10:10 AM CST

There aren’t many bright spots for Magic Valley agriculture right now in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. Farmers are dumping milk and potatoes onto the ground. Beef prices have taken a nosedive, and some processing plants have closed. When you look at wheat, corn, sugar beets, alfalfa and barley, there don't appear to be any big winners. Farming amid the coronavirus Roarey Kennedy, warehouse laborer, looks over a conveyor belt while it moves seed March 30 at Davidson and Company in Eden. DREW NASH, TIMES-NEWS With almost all the valley’s producers and processors suffering, it appears there's just one Magic Valley crop benefiting from the pandemic: Beans. Dry, edible beans.