COVID Impact on Oregon Wine Pt 2
Monday Mar 8th, 2021
With today’s Fruit Grower Report, I’m Bob Larson. The economic impact of the pandemic, wildfires, and other 2020 challenges were just one of the topics raised at last month’s Oregon Wine Symposium.
Dr. Robert Elyer, of Economic Forensics and Analytics, says the vineyards saw a drop in production, but there are other factors to consider …
EYLER … “Harvests were down. We’re looking to see, ultimately, how that effects the supply chain not only in Oregon, but more generally in the United States. And, we’re still very early. We know that some wineries got federal help and it’s hard to quantify that just yet because we don’t know how much that just simply filled the gap. We ultimately need economic recovery to really wake up those parts of the supply chain which are waiting to open back up again.”