Keri Jacobs, associate professor, was interviewed for a Sept. 24 Pork story, "ISU Researchers to Investigate Ag Supply Chain Resiliency."
A new grant will allow Iowa State University (ISU) researchers to study how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the U.S. food supply chain with the goal of finding short- and long-term solutions to increase resiliency against future disruption, a release from the university says.
The pandemic led to major disruptions in several agricultural industries, says Keri Jacobs, an associate professor of economics at ISU. “These disruptions were unique because we didn’t experience a shock to the supply of agricultural products—it was largely a shock to our processing capacity through reduced labor,” she says.
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National Hog Farmer, Sept. 24