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Innovation and tenacity: New ASAP report shows farmers faced big challenges in 2020 Mackensy Lunsford, Asheville Citizen Times ASHEVILLE - The pandemic upended months of business planning and decimated restaurant sales for local farmers. Popular Searches The other part of the message: resilience. In what should come as a surprise to virtually no one, this year s survey was heavily influenced by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on local farms. Of the 208 regional farmers who took part in the survey, 52% said they had access to fewer local market outlets for their products last year, a 41% increase over the previous year. That number is influenced by closed markets, delayed openings and limits on the number of vendors ....