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Welcome to the 2021 Georgia Ag Forecast. As we meet for today’s event, we remain in the midst of the ongoing pandemic. COVID-19 has disrupted so much in our world, our country, our state and our communities. In addition, the pandemic’s impact on agriculture has been significant.
The owner of Rodgers Greens and Roots in Douglasville braced herself in mid-March as restaurants that for years had snatched up her crops— Miller Union and C. Ellet’s and St. Cecilia, to name a...
May 5, 2020 · Georgia's spring fruit and vegetable harvest has an estimated farm gate value of $500-$750 million, and roughly 50% of that is traditionally marketed through foodservice. However, with much of the foodservice channel closed due to the COVID-19 response, farmers could find their promising crops have no place to go. "The supply is there.
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The economic impact of the Covid-19 to Georgia Specialty Crop Industry is huge. This economic forecast report serve as educational and professional guide for farmers, researchers and extension staff, lending agencies, policy makers and others in agriculture to facilitate decision making.
There are over 35 commercial vegetables and almost a dozen major and minor fruits and tree nuts produced in Georgia. The combined farm gate value of this dynamic industry is almost $1.7 billion in 2018. Unfortunately, most of the fruits (blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, peaches, citrus, etc. and vegetables (pepper, squash, eggplant, cucumbe...
As soon as the Covid-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, it became imperative that an economic forecast analysis was necessary. The forecast would gauge the perceived impact and their effect to the farmers, industry, state and nation in general. It would further provide information on future farming, resource allocation and financial plan...
Our studies ( https://site.extension.uga.edu/aaecext/) and various newspaper interviews (http://vscnews.com/coronavirus-uga-fruit-vegetable-impact/ ), and https://vegetablegrowersnews.com/news/covid-19-keeps-georgia-produce-farmers-from-hiring-labor-exporting-crops/ will be useful to growers in their daily decision making process and for policy imp...
Year:2020Geographic Scope:NationalCounty:TiftLocation:Coastal Plain Station, TiftonGreenhouse. $566.2 million 4.6% of total. Corn. $358.1 million 2.9% of total. Blueberries. $304.2 million 2.5% of total. Dairy. $297.0 million 2.4% of total. Hay. $291.2 million 2.4% of total. Food and fiber production. plus directly related processing and indirect sectors. 69.4 billion dollars. 352,430 jobs. 2020 TOTAL FARM GATE VALUE.
Aug 12, 2020 · Despite the shutdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Georgia’s vegetable farmers avoided disaster and instead are looking at a money-making year on crops that range from asparagus to...
Apr 3, 2020 · Kubota, the tractor and utility vehicle manufacturer, sent home 2,700 workers this week from its two plants in North Georgia because of cases of COVID-19 and to “evaluate the entire business...