The mounting crisis facing America’s food chain due to COVID-19 will be the focus of the next Farm Country Update from Farm Journal, this Thursday.

Simply put, agrinationalism places national loyalty above economics, culture and science when making food choices.

As stay at home orders have kept customers at home, potato consumption has fallen dramatically, leaving a glut of spuds.

More than 50 organizations signed an open letter to Congress calling for stimulus funding to support independent, small, and mid-size farms, and farm and food production workers, according to a Food Tank article.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Randy Romanski, interim head of Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, about why some farmers are dumping food amidst shortages, in a NPR The Salt interview.