Source: SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 12/21/20


The speed of the economic recovery will largely hinge on the availability, dissemination, and reach of COVID-19 vaccines, pushing a pent-up consumer demand to later in 2021. That’s according to a comprehensive year-ahead outlook report just issued from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange Division. The report lists several key factors that will shape agriculture and market sectors that serve rural communities. The largest factor is COVID-19, which will continue to steer the global economy into 2021. Other factors include monetary policy...

For more of this story, click here.