Coronavirus business woes for CA farmers.

Coronavirus woes are hitting everyone, including California’s farm communities. Markets for California farm goods are diminishing, especially crops earmarked for restaurants, airplanes and hotels. Confusion about what constitutes an essential service or an essential business in agriculture during shelter in place orders has become a bit clearer. We’ll explain. What happens to those food products? The USDA thinks they have a partial answer. And coronavirus worries temporarily put a crimp in the Mexican farm labor force coming to the United States. But there was a last minute solution. With more farm families working and studying from home due to coronavirus shutdowns, poor rural internet broadband service is a problem that is back on center stage. We talk with one group that’s attempting to get better internet service to rural areas of California. All that, and a lot more, on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour.