Montana ag producers not optimistic about upcoming year

People attending a virtual seminar on the economic outlook for Montana Tuesday heard agriculture producers have a gloomy outlook for 2020, even without figuring in impacts of the outbreak of COVID-19.

The Bureau of Business and Economic Research 2020 Montana Economic Outlook seminar set for Havre Tuesday was moved to an online presentation to reduce exposure to novel coronavirus 2019.

During the discussion, which also covered potential impacts throughout the economy of the COVID-19 outbreak, Montana State University Extension Economic Associate Specialist Joel Schumacher presented an agr...