COVID-19's Impact on Farmers Market Sales in the Washington, D.C., Area

Jeffrey K. O'Hara; Timothy A. Woods; Nony Dutton; Nick Stavely

doi:10.1017/aae.2020.37

COVID-19's Impact on Farmers Market Sales in the Washington, D.C., Area

Jeffrey K. O'Hara, Timothy A. Woods, Nony Dutton, Nick Stavely

Agricultural Economics

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We use a sales database of farmers market vendors in the Washington, D.C., area to estimate how first half 2020 sales were impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We use 2019 data as a counterfactual for sales that would have occurred in 2020 in the absence of COVID-19. For neighborhood weekend markets that were able to remain open during the pandemic, the change in 2020 average sales between the winter and spring is between 75% and 79% lower than in 2019. Other farmers markets, particularly weekday markets in business districts, experienced delayed openings or were closed for the entire year.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	94-109
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Volume	53
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/aae.2020.37
State	Published - Feb 2021

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COVID-19
data collection
farmers markets
local foods

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Economics and Econometrics

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