Could more small meat lockers and butchers help Minnesota livestock farmers?

Meatpacking plants were among the first industries to be hit when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Workers got sick, plants closed and livestock farmers had no place to send their animals to be processed.

Farmers tried to take their hogs and chickens to small, family owned meat processing operations, but they didn’t have the capacity. So tens of thousands of chickens and hogs were euthanized.

Paul Sobocinski is a hog farmer in Wabasso, Minn., and he says he has a solution to this problem. He joined host Cathy Wurzer to talk about it.

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