The combined company will be called Precision Build Companies, LLC, headquartered in Tampa, FL.

In rural America, lenders expect it to push their local areas into a recession, according to the Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI).

Experts say dealing with stress during a time of social distancing makes the challenge even greater.

“Over the past two months, producers have felt the first shockwaves being created by the coronavirus,” says James Mintert, the barometer’s principal investigator and director of Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture.

The National Council of Farmer Cooperatives is sounding the alarm about restrictions on the movement of H-2A workers within Mexico in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.