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The country including clover farms in pennsylvania. little bear farms in texas, ranches in california, and rice lake farms in grant, michigan, where we found rick sibel. >> 600 acre farm grows the onions, carrots and beats typically destined for the smile and dozens of other new york city restaurants. >> normally this time of year i'm shipping two and three trucks midweek to new york. and now i'm only shipping one today. >> rick reduced worker hours and is also postponed spending more than $250,000 on maintenance and equipment. money that is now not going back into the local or national econom...

$250,000 on maintenance and equipment. money that is now not going back into the local or national economy. there are some estimates that as many as 40% of new york city restaurants won't reopen. what would that mean for you? >> there might be a lot less of us around doing what we do. heaven forbid, but that could happen. just like restaurants. as many as 40%, you're saying. i believe that could happen. >> reporter: back at the smile, all matt can do is wait. are you bracing yourself for this business going under? >> i've accepted that if we don't get the support from the government or our ins...

Wasn't it? to run all that way. >> i wouldn't have been able to run that much. i wouldn't even know what to do. to stay strong the way he did. i just -- i wasn't there and i couldn't control myself. i don't know how he did it. >> reporter: farm accidents are as old as the wheel. bad things just happen sometimes. still, sheriff's investigators scoured the area, taking photos and collecting every bit of debris they could find, whether it looked like it was from an electrical box or not. >> one of our jobs for the jurisdiction is to investigate all industrial accidents. >> reporter: because, said...

>> us know that, yeah. >> and so you said masks. that's good. but was everybody six feet apart? >> here's the thing. if there's a family group, they are allowed to if they set with their family group. there has to be a ten foot between them and the next group. so they actually have their own area. >> so we node to get this cou country opened up. that was our main georgia goel. we wanted to get these races going and show it can be done. this is the second night.

It keeps the teams separate from each other. and everyone is wearing face masks. i have one on myself. we checked temperatures wp we got them to sign is off. if they got over 100 degrees, we made them set off the side. things are going good. we're just halfway through the night. >> let me jump in and ask a question. so you said ten people per car. you think everybody showed up? so you had all those people show up? >> you realize everybody is a carrier is not symptomatic.