No one has been immune from the struggles the pandemic has wrought on the nation’s health or the economy, including farmers and their community banking partners. Ag banking experts from across the region weigh in here on the local impact. (Bank Beat)

With states largely determining how to allocate doses after front-line health workers, employers and trade groups contend for access to initial supplies. (Wall Street Journal

While livestock producers might be seeing tight margins and packer profits remain strong, USDA on Thursday issued a final rule in a long-standing political fight over how to define unfair practices under the Packers and Stockyards Act. (DTN)  

Most folks who rent farmland have a driver’s license and start shaving regularly before that happens —but this young farmer does not fit the mold. (WCIA

A purple glow illuminates stacked boxes where lettuce, herbs and kale will soon be sprouting at one of Europe’s biggest “vertical farms” which has just opened in a warehouse in an industrial zone in Copenhagen. (Tech Xplore

President-elect Joe Biden could name his wider climate team in the near future, possibly ahead of a global Climate Ambition Summit on Saturday led by the U.K., where attendees have been buoyed by news in recent months that several major economies will go carbon neutral and cut emissions sooner than planned. (Politico)