The world needs to eat - coronavirus or not - and farmers can take heart from that, Wanganui Federated Farmers president Mike Cranstone says.
Even in China, where Covid-19 started, the government is giving priority to the movement of meat and dairy products through ports. Chillers and freezers are full, ports like Shanghai and Tianjin are jammed, but food is moving faster than it was six weeks ago.
The main thing on the mind of Cranstone and other Whanganui region farmers is not the global pandemic, it's the drought.
Farmers short of feed have wanted to send animals to meatworks. However, processing plants are working at capacity, and farmers have often had to wait.
China has slowed the spread of Covid-19 and things are returning to normal there, Silver Fern Farms and Beef + Lamb NZ say. Chinese people are buying more meat online to save going out in the street, and they are trying new beef and lamb recipes.