This 2-page fact sheet written by Christa D. Court, Alan W. Hodges, Mohammad Rahmani, and Thomas H. Spreen and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department describes the economic contributions of the citrus industry to the state of Florida in fiscal year 2015/16, updating previous studies for 2012/13 and 2014/15 and previous estimates for the economic impacts of citrus greening disease. edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe1021

Public health measures enacted to mitigate the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have dampened economic activity by shuttering businesses that provide 'nonessential' goods and services. Not surprisingly, these actions

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This paper presents estimates of the economic impacts of cancelled recreational trips to coastal counties in Northwest Florida due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, which were developed for legal claims by the State of Florida. A survey of households in 13 states indicated that 1.88 million planned visitor‐trips to the region were cancelled up to a year after the incident, resulting in a loss of $1.30 billion in visitor spending. Total regional economic losses were estimated at $2.04 billion in industry output, $1.37 billion in value added, and an employment loss of 20,486 job‐years.