At F Stop Farm in Manor, that was everything. "We won't have harvestable produce for four weeks," farmer Ryan Farnau told Austin 360 on Sunday. "It's going to be tough. We're going to have to reset."
'A new way' needed of supporting local farmers Erin Flynn, co-owner of Green Gate Farms, which has two properties - one in Bastrop and one in East Austin - said in a blog post on Thursday: "We had done everything right." "We bought our supplies and seeds early as we anticipated COVID-induced scarcities, worked overtime prepping fields and planting, then spent countless hours preparing for the storm by covering, watering and mulching. We were as ready as you can be," he said. But without crop insurance, the farmers are the ones who take the hit. To add more layers of protection for farmers, Flynn wants to see food hubs, preservation laws that protect farmland, farmer education funding, loan forgiveness for students who choose to be farmers, and mentoring programs for new farmers. Without much produce to sell at markets, many farmers won't have income as they try to restart their crops. Some of them have community-supported agriculture programs, whose members paid for boxes that the farmers now won't be able to fill. Farmers are left asking customers again to support them by buying their crops in the future. "What we really need is a whole new way of supporting local farmers," Flynn said. Source - https://www.freshfruitportal.comUSA - Texas farmers suffer heavy vegetable and citrus crop losses
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