Mar 27, 2020
Episode 47 features American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall, Arizona farmer John Boelts and South Carolina farmer Chalmers Carr discussing the need for temporary farm workers to be cleared to enter America from Mexico under the H-2A visa program despite a Coronavirus-related State Department halt of visa applications in Mexico. The episode also features ag economist David Widmar discussing COVID-19's short- and long-term impact on the ag economy, as well as the music of Bobby Tomberlin from Hank Snow's Rainbow Ranch in Madison, Tennessee, presented by the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville.