The head of Minnesota’s Agriculture Department chooses to look at the positives when recapping 2020.
Commissioner Thom Petersen says for all the challenges over the past year, many farmers had already been struggling for the better part of a decade.
“We had five, six, seven years of down prices (and in) 2018 we had the lowest farm income in the last 23 years. 2019 we had the wettest year on record.