With stay-at-home orders and empty grocery shelves appearing as people shopped for food during the covid-19 crisis, the realization was magnified how the food system is critical infrastructure and must continue to operate effectively.

But farmers and leaders in the agricultural  industry say they are struggling to get workers and keep them safe in the pandemic, while also meeting the demands of a food-system increasingly overburdened by coronavirus concerns.

And if the agricultural  industry is less than successful, there may not be ample food refilling grocery shelves come summer.

The agriculture industry and food production chain is obviously an essential business, exempt from work-from-home orders and needed to operate as usual — because residents buying out grocery stores depend on it.

And as one expert put it “no farms, no food; no food, no Walmart, if we want to feed the public, we still have to keep operating at high levels.”

But the covid-19 pestilence struck just as the agriculture industry was about to ramp up as it usually does this time of year.

And with coronavirus travel restrictions and U.S. consulate closures in countries like Mexico, the fate of a large part of the agricultural workforce was suddenly thrown into limbo.

Just when thousands of Mexican nationals come to U.S. farms every year to work through temporary visas, which allows American companies to hire foreign nationals to fill temporary agricultural jobs.

So American farms are having trouble harvesting and delivering product to market due to coronavirus restrictions, or the markets closed like restaurants. While farmers and dairymen also struggle with keeping their domestic workforce working in a safe manner.

As one owner said, “How do I keep them healthy and safe and also reassure them they can come to work? Without them, we aren’t able to refill those grocery store shelves.”

The timing and restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic is a perfect storm to affect the food supply chain.

There have also been reports of dairy farms disposing of milk they can’t deliver and other farms plowing under crops they can’t harvest or deliver.

As one director of a farmers association said, “The timing of this couldn’t have been more dire. If you had asked me if there was a perfect time to mess everything up, throw a wrench into the ag sector, this would be it.”

The Biblical prophecies (Matthew 24) describe both pestilences and famines together as signs that would indicate the beginning of the end of this age of grace called the “beginning of sorrows.”

These events and conditions happening now are warning signs pointing to the nearing fulfillment of the Last Days prophecies at the end of this age revealing it’s time to prepare now for the nearing appearance of Jesus Christ for His Church by being born again spiritually into the Kingdom of God as Jesus said we must (John 3) and His Apostles who were authorized (Matthew 16:19) described how (Acts 2).

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