Report: California agriculture could lose $8.6 billion due to Covid-19

California food producers stand to lose billions of dollars from the Covid-19 outbreak, a new study finds. And the boost in grocery store sales is not enough to make up for it. The California Farm Bureau Federation and other agriculture industry groups recently commissioned a study to calculate the estimated losses to California growers from the Covid-19 outbreak. The study, prepared by ERA Economics LLC, found that state farmers could lose between $5.9 billion and $8.6 billion, which includes…