Source: Tyne Morgan, AGWEB, 5/21/20


New data shows COVID-19 illnesses at the farm level are less than 1%. Purdue University teamed up with Microsoft to create an online Food and Ag Vulnerability map. The point of the map is to show COVID-19’s impact on the farm level is very miniscule when you look at the bigger picture, explains Jayson Lusk, Purdue University economist and one of the authors. “Early on when COVID started hitting and we saw runs on grocery stores, one of the biggest questions I was getting was are we going to have enough food to eat,” Lusk says.

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