CONWAY — Due to shortages of purveyors and materials, COVID-19 has forced farmers to get creative to survive, but the flip side it is opening up a whole new crop of new customers.
Brian Herbert of Double Rainbow Farm in Eaton recently spoke to the Sun about difficulties farmers are experiencing in the year of COVID.
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