Updated 3/30/20

Like other businesses and families, direct farm marketers, value-added agriculture entrepreneurs and agritourism operators are facing new and imposing challenges posed by the COVID-19 outbreak and by local, state and national efforts to flatten the curve of infections

Navigating the situation is a daunting task, so the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has developed a website to support farmers who are making critical decisions and business adjustments.

The free resource list is available at http://tiny.utk.edu/CPA-COVID19.

The site provides links to resources made available by UT Extension and other universities, government agencies and producer organizations from across the country. Specialists with the UT Center for Profitable Agriculture along with colleagues from the Departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Food Science, and Plant Sciences have contributed to this streamlined listing.

Direct farm markets selling directly to restaurants have also seen demand from that market diminish, while demand for local product from grocery stores and from individual consumers has increased.