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May 5, 2021
DELMARVA.- Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner! That’s the words many dining services may hear as restrictions are lifted and demand for chicken across Delmarva continues to grow.
Chicken in America is now the most affordable protein and as the industry is starting to see normalcy again, we’re told this may bring some challenges. “Getting that mix right is the challenge right now and that’s what chicken companies are working really hard to do. We know how many people in the country rely on the food we produce,” said Delmarva Chicken Association’s James Fisher.
Prior to the pandemic, experts say that most product was given to grocery stores. Now that things are opening up, it’s being split with restaurants and other dining services.
New COVID-19 strain bringing some concerns to people, as it seems to have a higher transmission rate
December 31, 2020
DELMARVA- This week in Colorado the United States confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus strain first identified in the U.K.
“We do not believe that there is much different about this strain meaning that it makes people more ill or more severly ill,” Bill Chasanov, Infectious Disease Physician at Beebe Healthcare, said.
A doctor at Beebe Healthcare said the strain known, as the 1-1-7 strain, is causing some concern for many, as there aren’t exact answers as to how it will impact people yet.
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December 31, 2020
WORCESTER COUNTY, Md.- This year has been a tough one farmers as we are told they got more rain than usual this year.
Virgil Shockley, a Worcester County farmer, said the weather patterns for this year have been all over the place.
Shockley added that they usually expect to get nor’easters twice a year, and this year there were more than that, bringing an increase in rain.
Since the day after Thanksgiving, Shockley said he has had close to seven inches of rain and that increase will impact crops.
“What is different about this year is that fact that you don’t get a half inch rain, you don’t get a one inch rain, you get a 2 and a 3 and a 4 inch rain 50 which we normally don’t get,” Shockley said. “Cold, damp doesn’t equal corn plants coming up, it just doesn’t work and soybeans the same way.”