Iowa State launches COVID-19 impact tracking app for ag and ethanol

In Iowa, tracking COVID-19’s economic impacts, especially in the state of Iowa, is now possible thanks to resources on a new web hub.

The webpage “COVID-19 Pandemic: Research and Resources” developed by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development and the Department of Economics at Iowa State University, examines the pandemic’s impacts on the economy, agriculture and business across local, regional and global economies.

The hub includes graphs, tables and maps visually representing the scale and extent of the pandemic’s impact and features related press releases and publications, such as “The Impact of COVID-19 on Iowa’s Corn, Soybean, Ethanol, Pork, and Beef Sector” released in April. It also offers an interactive tool to estimate total losses to Iowa’s corn, soybean and ethanol markets due to COVID-19.