Understanding Exchange Rates: A Weakening US Dollar—Good, Bad, or Indifferent for Florida Farmers and Agribusinesses?

This document is FE546, one of a series of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date April 2005. Revised May 2009. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication. This publication is part of the Understanding Trade Policy Issues series. Others in the series include FE492 (Understanding the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement) and FE498 (Understanding Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers Program).

Edward A. Evans, assistant professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics; UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center, Homestead, FL 33031.