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Marty Yahner walks among the black angus steers at Yahner Brother Farms outside of Patton. / Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
The coronavirus pandemic has left a significant mark on the agriculture industry but it has also provided a learning experience.
“Perhaps the biggest lesson for agriculture to come out of the pandemic is how important it is for our food supply chain to be able to adapt to unexpected circumstances. Early in the pandemic we saw the food supply chain disrupted in two major ways,” said Liam Migdail, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau spokesman.
There were major bottlenecks in food processing.