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Farmers Brace for Economic Hit From Coronavirus

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Farm Income

Mike Tomko

Director, Communications

photo credit: North Dakota Farm Bureau member Lindsay Faye

Mike Tomko

Director, Communications


"This will be a wallop," reports POLITICO.

“These type of black swan events, you can’t anticipate it,” said John Newton, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation. “It’s a shock to the global economy. We will rebound and recover — it’s just a matter of how long’s the drag on this.”