Over the last six weeks a non-trivial percentage of the stories that I, and ever other reporter, have covered can be classified as “X industry’s changes caused by COVID-19.”
Here’s my latest: New Hampshire’s four slaughterhouses are doing fine despite the turmoil elsewhere in the industry.
Didn’t know we had four slaughterhouses? Then read the story.
I buy sides of beef from a NH farmer every year. Just picked up this year’s order two weeks ago and he mentioned I was lucky because he was sold out for the rest of the year with advance orders and couldn’t get any more appointments with the processors. I sent you your article just now and this was his reply “this is no longer true. All 3 of my processors have stopped taking established appts because their labor is quitting […] I had to cancel many of my customers’ orders because my appointments with 3 processors have been canceled due to no help!