News 12 May 2020

Routine in abnormal world

While the Coronavirus pandemic has forced many jobs across the country to change, Dan and Carol Speicher — owners of the family-owned cattle farm Prime Feeders Inc. located in New Hampton — say the day-to-day operations of their business have largely remained the same.
“Regardless of what is going on in the world and the weather, you have to feed the cattle twice a day,” Dan said. “The cattle expect to be fed at 7 a.m. and then again at 3 p.m.”
Prime Feeders sell the majority of their cattle to packing plants. However, because of COVID-19, there is a shortage of workers in these plants, and they aren’t purchasing cattle from farmers.
For more on this story see the May 12 Tribune.

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