Iowa meat lockers see record sales: Hart

Chad Hart, associate professor, was interviewed for a May 22 Gazette story, "Eastern Iowa meat lockers see record sales due to processing plants' coronavirus shutdowns."

“As the big plants went down, we did see folks shift to our smaller locker plants to process some of those animals,” said Chad Hart, associate professor of economics at Iowa State University and an Extension economist.

“But it doesn’t cover fully what’s needed.”