DAEE Faculty on Economic Impacts of COVID-19

Faculty and specialists from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics are lending their expertise at local, state and national levels, weighing in on the economic impacts of coronavirus to consumers, agriculture and industry.

MSU News

Media

• Paycheck Protection Program Benefits Montana Businesses; Which ones is unclear -- Yellowstone Public Radio, June 10, 2020 (Wendy Stock)
• The COVID-19 CARES Act: What Should be Done for U.S. Farms? -- RealClear Markets, April 14, 2020 (Vincent Smith)
• "Aid Bill offers small businesses payroll cash, but money could run out fast." -- Bozeman Daily Chronicle, April 1, 2020. (Christiana Stoddard, Carly Urban) 

Blog Posts

• Seasonal Farm Labor and Increasing Incidence of COVID-19 -- AgEconMT, Aug. 16, 2021 (Diane Charlton)
• Seasonal Farm Labor and COVID-19 in 2020 -- AgEconMT, June 1, 2021 (Diane Charlton)
• New data reveal extent of PPP participation in Montana's farm sector -- AgEconMT, July 7, 2020 (Dan Bigelow)
  
• An Uncertain Outlook for Pandemic Economy -- AgEconMT, July 1, 2020 (Brock Smith)

• COVID-19: Government Response, Global Trade, and Livestock Markets-- AgEconMT, June 26, 2020 (Diane Charlton)

• The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) in Montana-- AgEconMT, June 8, 2020 (Kate Fuller)

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• The Fate of Land in Expiring CRP Contracts: A Montana Perspective-- AgEconMT, May 26, 2020 (Dan Bigelow)

• Agricultural Employment and PPP Calculations for Seasonal Employers -- AgEconMT, May 18, 2020 (Diane Charlton)
• Dark Days for Oil Companies -- AgEconMT, May 12, 2020 (Brock Smith)
• Cattle expectations for fall under COVID-19 -- AgEconMT, May 4, 2020 (Eric Belasco)
• COVID-19 is changing buying habits -- AgEconMT, April 17, 2020 (Joel Schumacher)
• Paycheck Protection Program: Who Gets the Money? -- AgEconMT, April 14, 2020 (George Haynes)
• COVID-19: How might farmland values be affected? -- AgEconMT, April 13, 2020 (Dan Bigelow)
• What's Brewing for Barley Markets -- AgEconMT, April 7, 2020 (Anton Bekkerman)
• COVID-19: Will there be enough farmworkers? -- AgEconMT, April 6, 2020 (Diane Charlton)
• Understanding the Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses -- AgEconMT, April 1, 2020 (Brock Smith)
• Tracking COVID-19 in Rural America -- AgEconMT, March 30, 2020 (Anton Bekkerman)
• COVID-19 and Commodity Prices -- AgEconMT, March 25, 2020 (George Haynes)
• Economic Recession Impacts on Cattle Markets: Lessons from 2008 -- AgEconMT, March 25, 2020 (Anton Bekkerman)
• Preventing an Economic Plague -- AgEconMT, March 25, 2020 (Brock Smith)
• Being there for each other by staying apart: Coronavirus and social distancing -- AgEconMT, March 17, 2020 (Kate Fuller)

Podcasts

• What’s Impacting the 2020 Pulse Markets?-- AgEconMT, June 11, 2020 (Anton Bekkerman)

• Recession Impacts on Cattle Markets  -- AgEconMT, April 2, 2020 (Anton Bekkerman)
• Farm Workers Can't Keep Their Distance and Can't Get into the U.S. to Work -- NPR Business, March 27, 2020 (Diane Charlton)
• Food and Farmworkers - NPR Planet Money, March 25, 2020 (Diane Charlton)

Webinars 

• Economic Impacts of Coronavirus in Montana  -- MSU Extension Economics (Joel Schumacher and Kate Fuller)
• Solid Finances: COVID-19 Financial Issues for Consumers -- MSU Extension Economics (Joel Schumacher)

Resources

• COVID-19: Financial Issues for Consumers Downloadable pdf -- MSU  Extension Economics (Joel Schumacher)