For more than two decades , the Georgia Farm Gate Value Report has offer a comprehensive psychoanalysis of the county - level yield note value for commodities in Georgia ’s No . 1 industry , agriculture .
The reports provide all-important data to the state ’s farmers and present University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agents with a resourcefulness to interact and make relationships with producers in the state ’s 159 county . Now the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences ( CAES ) is providing Georgia ’s farmer with a new tool : Georgia Farm Gate Value 20 - class Trends .
Agricultural trends in GeorgiaWhile the yearly farm gate theme share insight on ranking and buck economic value data for Georgia ’s commodities , the fresh farm gate trends will rather look at pct variety across more than 20 years of data . " Using per centum change gives an idea of trends , which can evidence us more of a news report than the numbers , " said Ben Campbell , associate professor in the CAES Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and UGA Extension coordinator .
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic , for example , the baby’s room - glasshouse industriousness responded well — multitude were isolate at habitation , and purchasing flora became one of the many way to reset the time and get by . Meanwhile , trends show that the baby’s room - greenhouse industry was decimated during the Great Recession , while vegetable good did surprisingly well because at the end of the day , everyone needs to run through , Campbell said .
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Over 20 years of data show industry resilienceThe trend reports will break the state ’s 76 - plus commodities into six groups : row and scrounge crop ; blueberry bush and pecans ; nursery and greenhouse ; vegetables ; cows , hay and domestic fowl ; and hospitality and agrotourism . There will also be a trend report on Georgia agriculture overall .
Each report begins with a summary of trends for key crop within the commodity group followed by highlighted graphs of tendency for the crops with data from 2001 to 2022 . All information has been inflation - adjust to 2020 .
" The data point speaks to the fact that agriculture in Georgia is logical , " said Jared Daniel , data coordinator in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics . " The ag industry is important and here to continue . "
Daniel , who take in his bachelor-at-arms ’s stage in agribusiness and his master ’s degree in agrarian and enforce economics from CAES before charter a purpose as an agent with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System , added that while producer may stress about change in the market or issue like the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Recession , the key is focusing on the foresightful terminus — specially serious line direction and gainfulness — over number from any single given year .
" For producer , what we ’re really seeing with these trends is that things will recover . It takes time , and the amount of metre is always the bighearted variable , " Campbell total . " We think worst - case scenario , that something will defeat an industriousness , but it comes back . It always does . "
Source : uga.edu
