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Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wendong Zhang, Cornell University
Chad Hart, Iowa State University
“Rural Economics”
By: PBS Iowa – June 23, 2023
“Arguably, the markets have already reacted to it. We've seen strong runups in corn and soybean prices over the past week, showing the concern that we have in the drought conditions not only here in Iowa but across the nation, especially as we look towards the Eastern Corn Belt. The challenge here is really that the drought we're seeing right now, while it doesn't look good, it's not necessarily impacting our agricultural production yet.”
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Aaron Smith, University of California, Davis
Andrew Muhammad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“UTIA instrumental in launch of Southern Ag Today”
By: Southern Ag Today – June 23, 2023
“The agriculture industry is facing numerous challenges, from commodity price volatility to rising input prices and ongoing supply chain issues.”
“The launch of this valuable resource demonstrates the commitment of Extension programs in the Southern land-grant system to assist our producers and policymakers and to bolster agricultural production in the South.”
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Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Median home sale price in Wisconsin rose 153 percent since 2012”
By: Wis Politics – June 23, 2023
For the homeowner, this represents a remarkable increase in wealth but for potential buyers, particularly first-time buyers, this increase creates financial stress. The supply of new housing in Wisconsin hasn’t kept up with growing demand over this period, driving up home prices for both owners and renters alike. While the affordable housing shortage often comes up in discussions of the state’s top economic challenges.”
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Shenggen Fan, China Agricultural University
“What Are The Future Trends to Watch Out For in China? 6 Experts Explain”
By: YiCai - June 26, 2023
“More sustainable and healthy diets could limit obesity, disease and environmental impact. Consumption, in particular dietary habits, is closely intertwined with health and the environment. One study found that over half of all Chinese adults are overweight and obese, and of those slightly more than 16% are obese. Consumption of refined cereals, oils, red meat, and highly processed foods has been excessive, while that of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and seafood has been insufficient.”
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Jennifer Ifft, Kansas State University
“Agricultural Land Is Becoming an Investment Vehicle for the Rich”
By: Jacobin – June 25, 2023
“The idea was that they would be pro-family farms, and address concerns about green space and urban sprawl. Whether use-value assessment has been effective at achieving either of these objectives is dubious.”
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Jayson Lusk, Purdue University
“Lusk Named Vice President, Dean of OSU Agriculture”
By: Morning Ag Clips – June 25, 2023
“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to come home to a place where I worked for 13 years and help build on the foundation in place to move the college and our state forward. It’s an opportunity to make an impact and to make a difference. It’s also a place where the students, faculty and staff are doing good things, and OSU Agriculture is well positioned with support of alumni and stakeholders to have an even bigger impact in Oklahoma and beyond.”
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Tom Hertel, Purdue University
“New Study Finds Investing In Nature Improves Equity, Boosts Economy”
By: Phys.org –June 26, 2023
"Traditional economic models of this kind almost completely neglect the fact that the economy relies on nature. This new study required a detailed understanding of how and where land use patterns change as a result of economic activity, with enough spatial detail to understand environmental consequences of these changes. It is a huge achievement."
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Margaret Lippsmeyer, Purdue University
Michael Langemeier, Purdue University
James Mintert, Purdue University
Nathan Thompson, Purdue University
“Resilience to Strategic Risk”
By: Ag Fax – June 27, 2023
“Strategic risks stem from a multitude of factors including a shifting political or social environment, changes in government policy, and a growing or contracting macroeconomy. Industry dynamics involving input markets and product markets as well as competitive and technological uncertainties also present strategic risks to firms. To respond to strategic risks, businesses should reevaluate their long-run business plans.”
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Jay Akridge, Purdue University
“Jay Akridge Believes in Education, Extension”
By: Farm Progress – June 30, 2023
“My brother Paul still runs the business with two stores. I worked for Dr. Payne while attending Murray State University. Near the end of my undergraduate years, he asked if I had considered graduate school. I said no, I was planning to work in the business with Dad.”
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*Disclaimer - This email is to acknowledge citations of current AAEA members and/or their research in any public media channel. AAEA does not agree nor disagree with the views or attitudes of cited outside publications. David Ortega, Michigan State University “Pasta Producers In Hot Water Over Soaring Prices” By: Financial Times – June 21, 2023 “Food prices tended to be sticky given the range of costs beyond those of their basic ingredients. They rise very fast when there is a shock and then they take longer to come down. We see the price of commodities like wheat come down quite substantially. But wages are still up, and some of the raw materials for packaging and others are still high. The pressure from grocers on food producers was likely to continue. But I don’t think they’re going to particularly lead to a lot of action. The increase in prices are because of an increase in costs all along the supply chain.”’ (Continued...) Lee Schulz, Iowa State University “Walmart to Build Case-Ready Beef Plant” By: Progressive Farmer – June 14, 2023 "It's a continuation of Walmart's strategy as they highlight to be end-to-end business operations in the beef supply chain. Cost may be another driver for Walmart as well, as beef prices have increased about 15% in the last couple of years. Beef prices are expected to continue to rise because of the smaller national herd. It's going to hit us like a ton of bricks next year. Beef production is forecast to be down 7 (to) 8%. So, prices are going to start to increase." (Continued...) Chad Hart, Iowa State University “Renting Iowa Farmland Has Reached a 10 Year High” By: Siouxland Proud – June 8, 2023 “A lot of it is related to the higher corn and soybean prices we’ve experienced over the past couple of years. You combine that with some additional government support flowing into agriculture, especially after covid, all lending itself to agriculture continuing to reinvest in itself. And typically when we reinvest in land that means those land prices do tend to go higher.” (Continued...) Joshua Rosenbloom, Iowa State University “Cities Where Inflation is Rising the Most” By: Wallethub – June 13, 2023 “Americans are still dealing with sky-high inflation, which hit a 40-year high last year. Though inflation has started to slow slightly due to factors like the Federal Reserve rate hikes, the year-over-year inflation rate was still a whopping 4.0% in May.” (Continued...) Jayson Lusk, Purdue University ·
“Climb
In Consumer Food Spending Signals Continued Inflationary Pressure” ·
“Survey
Finds Consumers Spending 6.9% More On Food” Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Higher Interest Rates Present New Risks For Farmers” By: Seeking Alpha – June 15, 2023 “On average, Illinois farmers who plant corn after soybeans could see a return of $58 an acre, needing a breakeven price of $3.96 a bushel when figuring in non-land costs, but $5.33 if land costs are included. Farmers who plant soybeans after corn could see a return of $51 an acre. Their breakeven price for non-land costs is $7.98 a bushel, but $12.62 if land costs are included.” (Continued...) Sarah Low, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Study Aims To Identify U.S. Meat Processing Plant Survival Factors” By: National Hog Farmer – June 22, 2023 “Our goal was to understand what factors are associated with plant survival, so we could better inform policymakers who want to invest in these plants." (Continued...) Brian Briggeman, Kansas State University “Farmers Need To Prepare For Rising Interest Rates” By: Farm Progress – June 15, 2023 “We have a lot of pent-up demand. American families want to get out and travel, and they’ve seen real wage growth; both are stimulating the demand side of the inflation picture. Additionally, there have been low interest rates for a number of years. The Federal Reserve is responding by raising interest rates in response to try to cool inflation and boost the economy.” (Continued...) Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis “Food and Ag Summit Tackles Water, Farm Bill” By: Vegetable Growers News – June 20, 2023 “The No. 1 challenge affecting farmers is dealing with regulations.” To be successful, farmers must be given flexibility to innovate and adapt. A domestic food supply needs to be fortified. As California farmers face a shrinking supply of employees, some have advocated for increased automation.” (Continued...) Gary Schnitkey, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Nitrogen Prices Remain Historically High” By: Country Journal – June 20, 2023 “In early June, retail nitrogen prices in Illinois were $1,116 per ton for anhydrous ammonia, $532 per ton for liquid nitrogen (28%), and $623 per ton for urea. Those prices are down from late fall 2022 but are still well above prices for recent years. Nitrogen fertilizer costs per acre will be near record levels for 2023 on many farms. Fundamental factors suggest nitrogen fertilizer prices will decline into fall 2023. Time will tell if, in fact, these declines happen.” (Continued...) Bradley Rickard, Cornell University “What’s Really Happening With Grocery Prices?” By: Prime News Print – June 22, 2023 “We’re seeing grocery price hikes slow as the factors that pushed them higher relax—like livestock diseases, and overall inflation. “We’ve started to see, more recently, a relaxation in most of these pressures on cost: machinery, fuel, labor, and cost of feed, in the case of animal products. And so we’re starting to see these new prices, most noticeably for eggs, fall.” (Continued...) Lee Schulz, Iowa State University
Peter Orazem, Iowa State University "How Will Economy, Iowa Borrowers Be Affected By Impending Supreme Court Decision On Student Loan Forgiveness" By: The Gazette - June 19, 2023 "Not having to pay loans for the last three years was essentially a net transfer of wealth because the monthly payment could be used for other things, and interest was not accruing. Assuming that they incorporated this into their planning they should be in a better position now to repay debts because there's all these payments that they didn't have to make. So that was sort of a net increase in their income. Now their income is going to return to what it would have been.” (Continued...) Amit Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology "The Importance of Restoring Hope Where There Is None" By: Rochester Business Journal - June 16, 2023 "Economists routinely measure human well-being with the time-honored concept of utility or happiness. However, just because a metric is time-honored does not make this metric an appropriate measure of well-being" (Continued...) Wendong Zhang, Cornell University "Market to Market" By: PBS Iowa - June 23, 2023 "If we are looking at primary agricultural Corn Belt regions like Iowa, that we're only talking about less than, a little over 1% owned by, has any ownership rights that is by a foreign buyer, right. And a lot of those are actually wind farms that has had the leasing rights for the either have bought the easement rights or bought that land for East for wind turbine development, or they have the leasing rights.” (Continued...) Jada Thompson, University of Arkansas "Bird Flu Has Ravaged U.S. Poultry. Now A Vaccine Could Be On The Way" By: KCUR - June 23, 2023 “If you’re adding anything to a production system, the costs are going to go up. There’s no margin of room to eat that cost. a lot of this is hypothetical. As the outbreak diminishes, a vaccine may not arrive fast enough to address the current bird flu strain." (Continued...) |
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Webinar Details
Date: Thursday, June 29, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Presenters: Jerry Cessna and Angel Terán
Description:
Did you know that in recent decades, per capita consumption for several major dairy product categories has risen, including cheese, butter, and yogurt? On the other hand, per capita consumption of fluid milk has declined.
The USDA, Economic Research Service’s (ERS) Dairy Data product gives additional insights into the domestic supply, demand, and trade of various dairy products. These include data on dairy per capita consumption, fluid milk sales, milk supply by State and region, milk production and factors affecting supply and utilization of milk in all dairy products, and numbers and size of milk bottling plants. During this webinar, ERS Economists Jerry Cessna and Angel Teran will present an overview of the product, highlight its many uses and demonstrate where to find these data on the ERS website.
Register now: https://www.ers.usda.gov/conferences/data-training-webinar-dairy-data/
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*Disclaimer - This email is to acknowledge citations of current AAEA members and/or their research in any public media channel. AAEA does not agree nor disagree with the views or attitudes of cited outside publications. Jayson Lusk, Purdue University
Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Wheat Prices Have Stabilized Since The Collapse of The Ukrainian Dam” By: AP News – June 9, 2023 “Anytime this war shows signs of getting further escalated, there’s a lot of concern, People are going to be watching to see what happens with the agreement.” “Expectations for food exports from Ukraine will likely “continue to diminish as we recognize that Ukrainian production will continue to be severely impaired because of the war.” (Continued...) Wendong Zhang, Cornell University “84% of Iowa Farmland Now Owned Debt-Free” By: Ag Web – June 12, 2023 “The rise of cash rent, especially fixed cash rent, correlates with the growing percentage of landowners who are part-time and non-residents of Iowa. Fifty-five percent of land is owned by an owner who did not farm in 2022, and, of them, over half do not have farming experience. Especially for those landowners, a fixed cash rental contract is a natural choice.” (Continued...) Dustin Pendell, Kansas State University “K-State Chosen to Lead Global Animal Health Effort” By: Morning Ag. Clips – June 9, 2023 “Our thought process is that we can start to work together across these 33 countries in the Americas region to develop a set of consistent methods and tools that everyone can use to estimate the economic impacts of animal health,” Pendell said. “Then we can take that knowledge that we generate and disseminate that information back to the decision-makers, whether that be animal health officials, producers or anybody throughout the supply chain, so they can make better management decisions.” (Continued...) Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University “As Vegan Meat Sales Start to Climb, Animal Meat Production Struggles” By: Veg News – June 8, 2023 “But there are other reasons, aside from price, for the drop in demand since 2022. Regularly … we observe the relative importance of price is lower in many coastal states. My opinion is most coastal residents likely place a higher priority on environmental impact, animal welfare, and perhaps some other social considerations that differ from the traditional eating experience factors of taste, fresh[ness], etc. Accordingly, this makes price a lower relative factor for those residents.” (Continued...) Stephan Goetz, Pennsylvania State University
Sarah Low, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Meat processing plants: What factors are critical for survival?" By: PHYS – June 13, 2023 "Even before the pandemic, there was a lot of focus on concentration in meat processing. When the pandemic hit, plants with thousands of workers shut down due to COVID outbreaks. Meat processing capacity was reduced by about 40% at the height of the lockdowns, and ongoing efforts to break up plants were intensified. Our goal was to understand what factors are associated with plant survival, so we could better inform policymakers who want to invest in these plants." (Continued...) |
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Guest Editor:
Slim Zekri (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
Email: [email protected]
Climate change in MENA countries as well as Northern Mediterranean countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, and Southern France) has already made an evident impact affecting rain-fed agriculture as well as surface water reservoirs, aquifers’ natural recharge and cities. Crop varieties and tree species currently under cultivation in the Southern Mediterranean would progressively be appropriate in the North Mediterranean farming systems for adaptation. Rain is becoming more sporadic and more intensive with fewer number of rainy days, higher temperatures, and longer summer months, leading to crop area shrinkage and increased need for water desalination. Hence, the increased water scarcity is affecting all the economic sectors (agriculture, water utilities, industry, tourism, and the environment) and driving a higher demand for water, including for adaptation purposes. Domestic urban and rural water are under increased stress/variability and water service failures/interruptions are becoming more frequent causing social discontent. Although quantitative technical-physical climate impacts are quite abundant, the lack of economic value tags attached to such studies makes them less valuable for policy consideration and undertaking the necessary shifts and adaptations. Previous economic impact studies based their adaptation measures on deficit irrigation for instance, however data is showing that aquifers are under high stress and cannot be used for such a purpose. Similarly, surface water reservoirs’ storage capacity is negatively affected by siltation caused by the more torrential sporadic intensive rains reducing the supply of water and increasing the supply uncertainty. This special issue of Water Economics and Policy aims to bridge this gap.
Potential topics/issues include, but are not limited to:
Timeline and
submissions
Manuscript submission deadline (via Editorial Manager): July 31, 2023.
All submitted papers are expected to fully comply with Water Economics and Policy journal standards and are subject to regular review procedures. Papers should not have been published previously in any other journal (print or electronic format). All submissions should follow the journal’s Submission Guidelines found here: https://www.worldscientific.com/page/wep/submission-guidelines.
About the Guest
Editor
Dr Slim Zekri is Professor in the Dept. Nat. Res. Econ. at Sultan Qaboos
University. He earned his PhD in Ag. Econ. and Quantitative Methods from the
University of Cordoba, Spain. His main research interests are in Water
Economics & Policy; Agricultural Economics and Environmental Economics. In
2017 he won the Research and Innovation Award in Water Science from the Sultan
Qaboos Higher Center for Culture & Science. He is Associate Editor of the
journal of Water Economics and Policy. He worked as a consultant for a
range of national and international agencies. He is member of the Scientific Advisory
Group of the FAO’s Globally Interesting Agricultural Heritage Systems since
2018. In 2020 he edited a book titled Water Policy in MENA
Countries published by Springer.
September 13, 2023 - Online
Conveners: Florence Becot, National Farm Medicine Center - Shoshanah Inwood, The Ohio State University - Jeff Hopkins, USDA ERS - Becca B.R. Jablonski, Colorado State University - Allie Bauman, Colorado State University - Jessica Crowe, USDA ERS - Katherine Lim, USDA ERS - Ashley Spalding, USDA ERS
Supported by: Farm Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Efforts to recruit and retain the next generation of farmers have traditionally focused on supporting the farm business through a focus on access to land, capital, and business management skills. While addressing these barriers are important, these efforts are likely insufficient as they fail to consider the full suite of social and economic challenges faced by farm households. From a theoretical standpoint, farm families are embedded in a complex agri-family system. Within the micro-level of this system, the farm household and the farm operation are interconnected through the constant exchange of resources (i.e. time and money). Challenges faced by the farm business can therefore have negative consequences on the farm household, and likewise, challenges faced by the farm household can negatively impact the farm business. Despite these theoretical insights and some empirical evidence that farm families experience household-level challenges connected to health insurance and health care, childcare, and insufficient household income, we know little about how household challenges impact the farm business. Directly connected to this knowledge gap is a limited understanding of the ways in which existing social programs and policies (which are specifically designed to meet these needs) may support farm sector profitability, survivability, resilience, and transition.
We invite theoretical, empirical, and discussion papers at the intersection of farm households’ social and economic needs, social programs and policies, and farm business viability. Farm households’ social and economic needs include, but are not limited to: access to health insurance and health care, childcare, affordable housing, nutrition and food security, poverty, and retirement. The papers can be based on new research or can revisit data previously analyzed with a new eye towards the focus of this conference.
Through a mix of paper presentations and panel discussions, the goal of this one-day conference is four-fold: 1) to broaden the long-standing body of work seeking to understand why, how, and which farm families are able to cultivate successful farm businesses in the face of on-going changes and the inherent instability of the agricultural sector, 2) to initiate the scientific debate on the linkages between farm households’ social and economic needs, social policies, and farm business development, 3) to develop new networks of family farm scholars working on these topics, and 4) to better understand data available to understand these relationships, as well as identify data gaps. Conference contributors will also have the opportunity to submit a paper for inclusion in a special issue of the journal Agriculture and Human Values. The deadline for the submission of papers for consideration in the special issue is November 2023.
Potential research questions connected to the theme include:
Submission guidelines
Please submit abstracts of up to 350-words by July 14. Decisions for inclusion in the conference will be made by August 7.
Submit abstracts at https://farmfoundation.swoogo.com/farmhouseholds/cfs.
For questions about the conference theme and the special journal issue, contact Florence Becot at [email protected].
For questions about the conference logistics and registration, contact Martha King at [email protected].
About the Conference
The conference will take place on September 13, 2023 online. Registration details for the meeting will be published at a later date.
Webinar Details
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Presenter: Saied Toossi
Description:
USDA typically administers 15 domestic food and nutrition assistance programs that together affect the lives of millions of people and account for roughly two-thirds of its annual budget. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, USDA launched additional programs and expanded the scope and coverage of existing ones.
In this webinar, Economic Research Service (ERS) Research Economist Saied Toossi will provide an overview of the fiscal year 2022 edition of the Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape annual report series, which examines recent developments in USDA's largest food and nutrition assistance programs along with trends in program participation and spending. The report also includes an examination of the economic and social indicators related to participation in these programs and a recent summary of ERS food and nutrition assistance research. Register now: https://globalmeetwebinar.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1619906&tp_key=b9600965c3
George Frisvold, University of Arizona
Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis
Simon Somogyi, University of Guelph
“Industry Consolidation Leads To Higher Food Prices, Requiring Sharp Strategies By Consumers”
By: CBS News – June 5, 2023
"We're seeing higher profits for the major, particularly, for the food retailers and food processors. We have seen consolidation in the food sector quite dramatically over the last decades where there are fewer and fewer suppliers. Fewer meat processors and food manufacturers mean higher prices, and, at the same time, we're seeing fewer grocery store chains, too.”
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Amit Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Amid Fears of Chinese Influence, the Committee on Foreign Investment on The United States Has Grown More Powerful”
By: The Conversation – May 31, 2023
“What
remains unclear, however, is if this seemingly routine business
acquisition was reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the
U.S., which has authority to examine transactions involving foreign
investment. The committee is largely prohibited from publicly disclosing
any information filed with it, including if it is reviewing a
transaction or if one was referred for review.”
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James Mintert, Purdue University
“Farmers Feel Financial Pressure from Lower Crop Prices, Says Purdue Survey”
By: Hoosier Today – June 6, 2023
"Producers are feeling the squeeze from weakened crop prices, which has reduced their expectations for strong financial performance in the coming year.”
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Maksym Chepeliev, Purdue University
“Why the Ukraine Dam Destruction Is a Massive Disaster — Now and In the Future”
By: Vox – June 8, 2023
“The area near the Dnipro River is heavily mined, and flood waters could dislodge those explosives. Already there are reports of contamination of industrial chemicals in the Dnipro River. The surrounding areas, in the Kherson region, Mykolaiv region, they rely on the water for irrigation purposes, for agricultural purposes, and of course, drinking water.”
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David Orden, Virginia Tech
“Farm Subsidies and International Trade Rules”
By: International Food Policy Research Institute – May 25, 2023
“The 1994 Agreement on Agriculture, which emerged from the Uruguay Round, imposed the first real international trade disciplines on agriculture, including rules on market access, export subsidies, and domestic support. However, no further progress was made at the Doha Round. Today, many WTO members continue to seek tighter constraints on trade-distorting domestic support, while others seek more room for producer support related to developing countries’ food stocks.”
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Simone Valle de Souza, Michigan State University
“Is Indoor Leafy Greens Cultivation Profitable?”
By: Vertical Farm Daily – June 7, 2023
"I was invited by the other OptimIA researchers to use mathematical models that take into consideration the biology and technical parameters to determine the potential revenues and costs. My team of economists is looking to identify the economic tradeoffs from the implementation of multiple environmental factors that the other OptimIA researchers were optimizing or planned to optimize as part of the project. Our job is to identify the optimal parameters for profitability in controlled environment production. As part of the OptimIA project, we tackled two aspects of economic analysis: production and resource-use efficiency and consumer preferences.”
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Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont
"As Enrollments Dwindle and Colleges Close, Towns Hope Developers Will Revive Abandoned Campuses"
By: NPR Marketplace - June 1, 2023
What makes that process especially hard is the fact that there’s a lot of space to fill on an empty campus. Someone has to have vision. They have to have enough resources to think into the future about what will happen when this property is redeveloped, and how complicated are the pieces to put together? It’s pretty complicated, if the four Vermont campuses that have closed since 2019 are any indication."
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
Shadi Atallah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Robot Farmers? Machines Are Crawling Through America's Fields. And Some Have Lasers"
By: USA Today - May 4, 2023
"In some cases, ag robots can do things that simply couldn’t be done before. One example is small robots that can navigate and weed under the canopy of a cornfield after the plants have grown high. Any weeds, even hidden ones, take nutrients and moisture from the soil that could go to crops. Now we just accept those weeds because we can’t get to them."
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Tomas Nilsson, Olds College
“Technology in Agriculture...Home Weed Control”
By: Ag Today – May 25, 2023
“Today’s show begins with Tomas Nilsson, faculty member at Olds College of Agriculture and Technology, and Terry Griffin, K-State cropping systems economist. The pair discusses challenges technology faces when trying to be adopted by producers in agriculture.”
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Andrew Stevens, University of Wisconsin – Madison
“Agri-Food Supply Chain Resiliency During Covid-19”
By: Market Day Report – May 31, 2023
Speaks at minute mark 0:20”
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Kenneth Burdine, University of Kentucky
“No Bull-The Value of Castration For Calves”
By: Southern Livestock – May 26, 2023
“If you don’t regularly castrate male calves prior to sale, consider whether you have the resources to add it to your standard calf management protocol. Unlike some management practices, buyers can easily observe this one, making it an easy one for marketing your management and one that has a relatively high return for your efforts. If you need assistance with the how-to and when of castration, contact your county extension educator.”
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Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University
“U.S. Meat Demand Declining, Still Remains Above Pre-Pandemic Levels”
By: National Hog Farmers - June 1, 2023
“U.S. meat demand declining, still remains above pre-pandemic levels”
By: National Hog Farmer – June 1, 2023. In short, while personal finances have squeezed things, residents remain very interested in having beef, pork and other meat proteins in their diet which supports demand levels being above early 2020 levels.”
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Jayson Lusk, Purdue University
"The Future of Food: Lab-Grown Meat and Plant-Based Alternatives"
By: Lera Blog - May 2, 2023
"Plant-based meat alternatives have emerged as another sustainable and ethical solution to meet the growing demand for protein. Companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have garnered significant attention due to their innovative use of plant-derived ingredients to replicate the taste, texture, and nutritional profile of conventional meat products."
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Jennifer Ifft, Kansas State University
“What an El Niño Could Mean For Food Prices”
By: Axios – May 2, 2023
“If El Niño ends up intensifying the prolonged drought in the Central and Southern Plains, the results would be "economically devastating.The drought we've been seeing in the region has actually contributed to high crop prices ... everywhere. El Niño event could make the extreme situation in states like Kansas actually worse."
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Tomas Nilsson, Olds College
“Why Aren’t Farmers Embracing Ag Tech?”
By: The Western Producer – May 6, 2023
“What really surprised me with this, when we started running through the numbers, was to find that the rate of adoption is not as high as we would like it to be. If you want to promote further environmental stewardship, to really deal with the fertilizer issues and reduce nitrogen emissions from fertilizer use… there is probably an enormous opportunity here for the industry and producer organizations to provide that education and training that’s needed.”
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Read More On: The Western Producer
Jason Grant, Virginia Tech
“USDA World Agricultural Supply & Demand Estimates Report”
By: USSEC – May 12, 2023
“If realized, this will be the largest year-over-year production increase in nearly two decades. More than half the increase is estimated to come from increased yields in Argentina, after a historic drought. Meanwhile, USDA reports Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay account from more than a quarter of production gains from increased plantings and higher yields across all three countries. U.S. farmers are forecast to plant acreage numbers similar to last year, but projections show higher yields.”
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Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis
“Mangoes in Nor Cal?”
By: Chico News Review – May 19, 2023
“California’s agricultural identity already has changed drastically over time. In its earliest days of statehood, California was a major producer of rain-watered wheat, grown on several million acres. When irrigation became ubiquitous, so did specialty crops that thrive in a hot, dry climate but need water in the summer.”
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Aaron Smith, University of California, Davis
“Automation and Precision Farming Bode Ill For Jobs in SA Agriculture But Are Crucial For Food Security”
By: Daily Maverick – May 21, 2023
“The relevant question is not whether we will have mass unemployment, but what will happen to the specific workers who are replaced. Can they retrain and find new jobs? And what of their communities?”
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Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University
“K-State Plans Webinars to Address Cattle Production Challenges”
By: Farms.com – May 22, 2023
“As of May 11, all but 11 counties in Kansas are abnormally dry or classified in some degree of drought. Many counties have experienced persistent severe drought since late 2021. Not only have producers dealt with forage shortages, high forage and feed ingredient costs, and toxic forages, but water quality and availability is also an issue for some.”
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Steven Klose, Texas A&M University
“Bee-vival? Is Texas’ Bee Population Rebounding?”
By: Farm Progress – May 23, 2023
“A challenge for small-scale beekeepers is the business of competing in a market where honey is produced on a large scale and readily available. Similar to other commodity product markets, small-scale honey producers may struggle to compete from a cost-efficiency standpoint. Therefore, they need to find a way to differentiate their product to attract a premium price. Niche market opportunities may come from simply being ‘locally sourced’ or being produced from a unique nectar source.”
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Read More On: Farm Progress or Austin County News Online
Bruce Sherrick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Planting Cover Crops Can Mitigate PPL Acres In Wet Springs”
By: Machine Finder – May 18, 2023
“Those who are already planting cover crops are seeing benefits as a result of earlier planting, which reduces yield loss. Cover crops also boost the ability of soil to retain water, which means less runoff during heavy rains. The U.S. Department of Agriculture focuses on offering financial incentives to those who implement these practices, such as planting cover crops. Additionally, the University of Missouri provides its own incentives to state farmers who implement these tactics, including cover crop grazing and climate-smart fieldscapes.”
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Maria Gerveni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joe Janzen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Setting Restrained Expectations For New-Crop Corn and Soybean Prices”
By: Farms.com – May 16, 2023
“These new-crop supply and demand projections are valuable not because they necessarily enable users of the information to better predict forthcoming price changes, but because they establish expectations about future market conditions and provide context for forthcoming marketing decisions. Broadly speaking, prospects have coalesced around an inverted market structure with new-crop corn and soybean prices much lower than old-crop values.”
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Amit Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Making Rochester a Knowledge Economy? Beware Of Unintended Consequences”
By: Rochester Beacon – May 24, 2023
“Those who want Rochester to become a strong center of knowledge and innovation need to think carefully about the point that as knowledge-based activities increasingly become the main propulsive force in our city, the geographic divide between individuals with different levels of income may well continue to widen, in the process intensifying differences in terms of access to education, health, and consumption amenities.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley
“Colorado River Deal Offers Only A Short-Term Fix”
By: LA Times – May 24, 2023
“Paying farmers to conserve water might make sense politically, but the $1.2 billion would be better spent on water projects to help the states become less reliant on the Colorado River permanently.”
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Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nick Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carl Zulauf, The Ohio State University
“Ag Economists Revise Corn and Soybean Budgets, Both Show Losses in 2023”
By: Agri-Marketing – May 25, 2023
“We update the 2023 Crop Budgets to reflect declining corn and soybean bids for fall delivery. At currently projected price levels -- $5.00 per bushel for corn and $12.30 for soybeans -- farmer returns will be negative on cash-rented farmland. If prices stay at current levels, or continue to move lower, adjustments will be needed for 2024 production to achieve positive returns.”
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Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis
"California's Vast Farms Are Soaked. There's Nowhere To Plant Tomatoes, And That's Just One Problem"
By: USA Today – April 1, 2023
"We're talking about workers who aren't getting jobs, and their homes may also have been flooded. Growers, too are hurting. Some are potentially looking at major losses, sometimes in the millions. As has long been the case in agriculture, those who succeed in the business are the ones who "have a diversified portfolio of crops, sophisticated algorithms, a lot of experience and really cast iron nerves.”
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Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Economic Impact of Federal Spending On Wisconsin Veterans Rivals The State's Beef Farming Industry"
By: WPR – March 31, 2023
"We tend to lose money to Washington," Deller said. "Making sure that the veterans that are in the state are taking full advantage of all the benefits that are offered to them is one way of getting some of that money back into the state."
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Rodolfo M. Nayga, Texas A&M University
Pourya Valizadeh, Texas A&M University
Grace Melo,Texas A&M University
"Extra Food Assistance Cushioned the Early Pandemic’s Blow On Kids’ Mental Health"
By: The Converation – March 27, 2023
“Despite the heightened poverty and unemployment seen when the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, many low-income U.S. children did not experience a decline in their emotional and mental health, we found in a new study. We looked specifically at kids whose families were participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – commonly known as SNAP – the government program that helps low-income Americans afford food.”
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Simon Somogyi, University of Guelph
"Walmart and Costco In Canada Not Making Food Inflation Worse, Experts Say"
By: CTV News – March 29, 2023
"Their inclusion in our retail landscape is important and allows consumers to have a choice of where they want to put their money. Typically, their motto is 'come to us because we sell in bulk, at a typically lower price than our competitors. Any competition that can come into the marketplace is welcomed in order to help keep costs down.”
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Jared Hutchins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Dairy Sector Boasts 100 Years of Successful Herd Data Collection"
By: Feedstuff – March 24, 2023
“The National Cooperative Dairy Herd Improvement Program (NCDHIP) is an interesting case study because it illustrates how to translate the benefits of data collection for all dairy producers. Its model can serve as inspiration for other agricultural sectors. Previously it was commonplace for dairy farmers to water down their milk to get paid more. But farmers were now paid on butterfat instead of milk weight.”
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Ken Foster, Purdue University
"Purdue’s College of Ag Rises in National, International Rankings"
By: Morning Ag. Clips – March 27, 2023
“Purdue’s College of Agriculture received this recognition because of the hard work and intellectual capabilities of our faculty, staff and students as well as the leadership of our former dean Karen Plaut and her leadership team.”
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Marin Skidmore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Local Manure Regulations Help Reduce Water Pollution From Dairy Farms"
By: Daily News - March 30, 2023
“Wisconsin is unique, because they have allowed counties to participate in enforcement of state agricultural code without state approval. Most states have either sole state-level enforcement or allow local enforcement only with state approval. As a result, Wisconsin has more county-level participation in manure management than neighboring states, although the state still maintains enforcement authority as well.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
"Food Pantries Seeing Increased Need After COVID-era Assistance Ends"
By: The Petoskey News-Review – March 25, 2023
“So these pandemic-era benefits, which are supplemental, that came into effect at the start of COVID and the public health emergency, have been really helping low income households put food on the table. Prices are rising at the grocery store at a rate that we haven't seen in over 40 years, so that's really affecting overall consumer behavior and how they shop for food.”
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Chad Hart, Iowa State University
"Comparing Ames Gas Prices to Nearby Towns"
By: Iowa State Daily – March 28, 2023
“No matter where you are, you notice the gas prices not only in the city you’re in but the area around you. You’re always gonna notice these weird patterns that certain places are always lower than others.”
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Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont
"NoCo9 Speaker Spotlight Series: Jane Kolodinsky of the University of Vermont"
By: Let’s Talk Hemp – March 14, 2023
It has been a long and winding road. Right now we have several hemp research groups that are national in scope. We secured a USDA foundational grant to revitalize rural communities and have teamed up with academic groups in Colorado and Kentucky. We are looking at the economic impact of hemp on rural economies.”
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"Illinois Farmland Prices Continue Upward Rise"
By: Illinois Ag Connection – March 14, 2023
"Average cash rent levels increased substantially from 2022 to 2023 for all land productivity classes with the higher quality land experiencing the greatest absolute increase.”
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Amit Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“To Reduce Adult Crime, Invest More In Early Childhood Education”
By: Rochester Beacon – March 22, 2023
It is worth emphasizing that the benefits generated by the Head Start and Smart Start early childhood education programs on subsequent crime reduction paid for a large portion of the cost of providing the education. Moreover, these benefits paid for almost all the costs of providing education in high-poverty areas.
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Maria Kalaitzandonakes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Food Prices Will Rise Again In 2023, Putting More Pressure On Families"
By: WSIU – March 19, 2023
“None of these are particularly easy or straightforward things, they all affect your daily life and choices,” she said. “People are actively changing their behavior and switching away from important foods.”
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Jennifer Ifft, Kansas State University
"Ike’s Ag Economics To Be Discussed"
By: KSAL – March 19, 2023
“Agricultural policy in the U.S. addresses many important challenges including fighting hunger domestically and internationally. Policies on maintaining a safe and secure food supply along with economic stability for farm families are critical. This presentation will cover key policies addressing these challenges during the Eisenhower Administration.”
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Joana Colussi, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nick Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Brazil Passes U.S. As Largest Corn Exporter"
By: Agri marketing – March 20, 2023
“In its March "World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE)" report, the USDA raised its forecast for Brazilian corn exports to 50 million tons for the 2022-23 marketing year (October-September). That would put Brazil above the United States, the long-established world leader in corn exports. The United States is expected to ship 47 million tons to foreign buyers, two million tons less than the February forecast. Brazilian exports have risen sevenfold in 15 years, jumping from 7 million tons to 50 million tons. Brazil and China signed an agreement on phytosanitary requirements for corn trade last year, and the first shipment of Brazilian corn to China occurred in November 2022.”
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Brad Zwilling, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Increasing Agricultural Debt and Impact on Illinois Grain Farms"
By: Farms.com – March 20, 2023
"Agricultural debt on a nominal basis in Illinois has been increasing since 1991. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Illinois Farm Business Farm Management (FBFM) are shown to see if increasing debt levels pose problems for the financial health of Illinois farms. With more variability in the farm economy and rising inflation, increasing debt levels need to be monitored closely.”
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Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph
"Ag Policies Called Biased Toward Grain"
By: Sask Today – March 19, 2023
“There is no equivalent of crop insurance for livestock farmers. Thus, there is some argument that a safety net provides an incentive to convert marginal land from pasture to crops. However, there are business risk management programs for all types of farmers, including beef producers. More importantly, the market and commodity prices have a much larger influence on farmer behavior. I think high crop prices (and decent weather) are the major reason for this conversion. While government programs play some role, the difference in relative returns from the market is a major driver.”
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Marin Skidmore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Local Manure Regulations Can Help Reduce Water Pollution From Dairy Farms"
By: Phys.org – March 20, 2023
"Wisconsin is unique, because they have allowed counties to participate in enforcement of state agricultural code without state approval. Most states have either sole state-level enforcement or allow local enforcement only with state approval. As a result, Wisconsin has more county-level participation in manure management than neighboring states, although the state still maintains enforcement authority as well.”
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Seungki Lee, The Ohio State University
"Coffee and Grain Markets on April 14"
By: Ohio Country Journal – March 21, 2023
“Ohio State University Extension invites Ohio grain producers to grab a cup of coffee and join the next edition of a quarterly grain market conversation with Seungki Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics (AEDE) from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. on Friday, April 14, 2023. During this webinar held via Zoom, Dr. Lee will provide his insights on the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) crop report.”
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Jared Hutchins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Dairy Sector Boasts 100 Years Of Successful Herd Data Collection"
By: Eurasia Review – March 23, 2023
“The National Cooperative Dairy Herd Improvement Program (NCDHIP) is an interesting case study because it illustrates how to translate the benefits of data collection for all dairy producers. Its model can serve as inspiration for other agricultural sectors. Previously it was commonplace for dairy farmers to water down their milk to get paid more. But farmers were now paid on butterfat instead of milk weight. The Babcock test created a paradigm shift in dairy, giving producers an incentive to learn and fund research about this new metric.”
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Ricky Volpe, California Polytechnic State University
"The price-Cutting Battle of Retail Chains In Hungary Seems To Be Unique"
By: Trademagazin– March 23, 203
“Inflation will eventually reach a point where it stabilizes and then normalizes. February figures point in that direction. He says: “If the pressure eases at the very beginning of the food supply chain, the impact will go reach retail shelves in a very, very long period of time.”
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Shadi Atallah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Tapping Into New Syrup Flavors"
By: Carriage Towne News – March 23, 203
“Providing information to consumers about the type of syrup they are sampling, as well as the potential advantages of promoting sugarbush and forest diversification, resulted in an increase in willingness to pay for a 12.7-oz bottle by as much as $1.10.”
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James Mintert, Purdue University
"Agricultural Loan Delinquency Rates Fall Further Below 1%, Lowest In Decade-Plus"
By: S&P global – March 16, 2023
“In a release that the improved sentiment was due to a better feeling about financial conditions as farmers estimated their 2022 income following the autumn harvest.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
"While The Costs of Some Things Are Coming Down, a Lot of Other Prices Are Climbing"
By: NPR – March 14, 2023
“We're seeing some improvements in the forces that are leading to price increases, but there's still a ways to go before we start to see substantial relief at the grocery store.”
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Danielle Resnick, International
Food Policy Research Institute
Rob Vos, International Food Policy Research Institute
Will Martin, International Food Policy Research Institute
"The Political Economy of Reforming Costly Agricultural Policies"
By: Brookings – March 10, 2023
“Agricultural support policies provide over $800 billion per year in transfers worldwide. Such policies encompass a broad range of government instruments to support the agriculture sector, which are typically funded from taxpayers and consumers. These include “coupled” subsidies intended to incentivize producers to expand output, “decoupled subsidies” that avoid shifting production incentives, and market-price support measures such as tariff and non-tariff barriers. Many of these policies have facilitated hunger and poverty reduction, but they also have fostered agricultural production systems that threaten environmental sustainability through increased greenhouse gas emission and land use expansion.”
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Simon Somogyi, University of Guelph
"Tips to Ride Out Supply Chain Disruptions and Rising Costs"
By: FFC - March 15, 2023
"The war between Russia and Ukraine is the biggest cause of rising costs. The Ukraine conflict has had a profound impact on the cost of goods with skyrocketing grain and fertilizer prices impacting the production costs in almost all areas of food production - meats, produce, dairy and eggs. Having numerous suppliers for goods, particularly raw materials, is so important. This way, when one supplier shuts down for the ingredient you need or the logistics make it slower to get the ingredient into the processor, you have alternatives."
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Zach Rutledge, Michigan State University
"USDA Session Tackles H-2A, Labor Shortages"
By: Vegetable Growers News – March 9, 2023
“Half of growers face labor shortage problems. Growers reporting labor needs state the average shortage is 20% of the workers they would normally have hired. COVID-19 accelerated existing shortages and forced growers to adjust, by raising wages, providing incentives such as scheduling flexibility, offering health insurance benefits and production bonuses for employee retention and turning to farm labor contractors.”
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Jonathan Coppess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Midwest farmers tripled use of cover crops, but it's still just a small fraction of acres"
By: Earth Eats - March 1, 2023
“It is certainly not at a level that would be necessary for some of the challenges, like the water quality challenges like soil erosion. It's going to take a lot more acres to get there. Cover crops also received a temporary boost, thanks to COVID-19 relief money. The Biden administration spent $60 million on subsidies for more than 12 million acres of cover crops during the 2020-2021 growing seasons.”
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Read More On: Earth Eats, WSIU, KLNE-FM, Spot On Illinois, Iowa Public Radio
William Ridley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"U.S. Cotton Exports Shift Due to Competition, Trade Policy"
By: Herald-Whig – March 4, 2023
“As recently as the early 2000s, Brazil was only a minor player in the cotton market, and now they’re the second largest exporter in the world. Brazil’s cotton production is more than it used to be, with a large expansion in land area devoted to cotton. It is also a trend more broadly with Brazil’s agricultural sectors. They’ve become much more trade-oriented. Almost overnight, they became a major player in the cotton sector.”
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Bruce Sherrick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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"Land Prices Remain Strong"
By: Farm Week – March 2,
2023
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"Adopting More Soil Conserving Practices Can Reduce Crop
Insurance Costs
By:
Ag web – March 13, 2023
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"Buying of Transferring a Farm Getting More Expensive"
By:
Farm Week Now - March 13, 2023
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Coppess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Food prices will rise again in 2023, putting more pressure on families"
By: KOSU-FM – March 10, 2023
“None of these are particularly easy or straightforward things, they all affect your daily life and choices. People are actively changing their behavior and switching away from important foods.”
“We hear these huge numbers of $1.2 trillion going toward food assistance, and we lose a more important part of the policy. We overlook some of the tough decisions of choosing between paying a bill, putting gas in the car or eating. And that’s where people are skipping meals.”
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Gary Schnitkey, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nick Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Fertilizer Prices Have Come Down From Record Highs"
By: The Farmers Exchange – March 10, 2023
“Fertilizer prices have been on a declining trend in recent months. Declines in natural gas and corn prices likely have led to nitrogen fertilizer price declines. Moreover, stability in fertilizer markets may have been achieved as the Ukraine-Russia war continues. However, any further disruptions within the market, from escalating global tensions to supply chain disruptions, could lead to fertilizer price increases. Recent profit announcements indicate that fertilizer companies had a good profit year in 2022.”
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Bruce Sherrick, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Farm Values Conference Set For March 23"
By: Morton Courier – March 8, 2023
“They will look more closely at influences on land sales, outside influences on prices being paid, who’s buying and selling, and what to look for in terms of ‘crystal balling’ the future of land values and lease/rent rates.”
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Clayton Michaud, USDA Economic Research Service
"Foreign Ownership of US Farmland on the Rise"
By: Lancaster Farming – February 24, 2023
“Foreign entities own approximately 40 million acres, which accounts for 3% of all privately held agricultural land in the U.S. The majority of that land is forest — particularly purchases in Maine by Canada — but cropland is becoming a more popular commodity for foreign investors.”
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Joana Colussi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Prairie Profile: Joana Colussi"
By: Farm Progress - March 16, 2023
“It’s important for Americans to understand that everything that happens in Brazil and Argentina will directly impact the American market because today’s agriculture is a very global industry, we have to closely watch South American weather patterns and production.”
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Roderick Rejesus, North
Carolina State University
Sunjae Won, Auburn University
Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State University
Serkan Aglasan, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
"Adopting More Soil Conserving Practices Can Reduce Crop Insurance Costs"
By: Ag Web – March 13, 2023
“Advocates of conservation agriculture have long insisted that farmers who adopt use of practices such as cover cropping and no till or reduced till cultivation can improve the water-holding capacity of their topsoil by adding organic matter, which helps to make their crops more resilient in the face of extreme weather events. This attribute can not only benefit individual farmers by reducing their yield variability on a year-by-year basis, it can benefit society and taxpayers by reducing the need to make indemnity payments to U.S. farmers who participate in the federal crop insurance program.”
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Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"What Will 2023’s Diesel Production Capacity Look Like?"
By: RFD-TV - March 15, 2023
"Renewable diesel production is soaring, driven largely by federal and state policies. Many are now speculating over projected production capacity for the years ahead. Dr. Scott Irwin with the University of Illinois spoke with RFD-TV’s own Tammi Arender on last year’s highlights, contributing factors, and what to expect this year. (Speaks at time stamp 0:10)"
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Wendong Zhang, Cornell University
"How Might Rising Interest Rates Impact Iowa Farmland Values?"
By: The Gazette – March 16, 2023
“A simple way to calculate land value is to divide net income by interest rate. This year’s farm income still is strong compared to, for example, 2019 levels. But it’s trending down as COVID-19 assistance programs are being phased out. The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts net farm income to decrease by about 16 percent from 2022 to 2023.”
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Maria Gerveni, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Updated Overview of the Production Capacity of U.S. Renewable Diesel Plants"
By: Agri Marketing – March 13, 2023
“The two main types of biomass-based diesel fuels used to comply with the U.S. Renewable Fuel (RFS) mandates are "FAME biodiesel" and "renewable diesel." Although FAME biodiesel and renewable diesel are produced with the same organic oil and fats feedstocks, their production process differs substantially, resulting in the creation of two fundamentally different fuels.”
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Joe Janzen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"WASDE Recap: Lower US Corn Export Prospects, But Are They Low Enough?"
By: Farms.com – March 14, 2023
“The WASDE report contained significant downward adjustments to projected corn and soybean production in Argentina, but these changes were to some degree anticipated by the market. Bullish news about lower South American production may have boosted US soybean export prospects slightly but was insufficient to support to US corn exports.”
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Maria Kalaitzandonakes, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Coppess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Production in the Next Farm Bill: Is There Any Common Ground?"
By: Ag Fax – March 14, 2023
“This week, farmers, agriculture groups, and climate advocates have been demonstrating in Washington D.C. requesting that Congress do more to address climate change in the next farm bill. The event, Farmers for Climate Change Action: Rally for Resilience, called for resources, assistance, and incentives to encourage farmers to address climate change. This demonstration is a part of a much larger conversation about climate change and agriculture – and how to induce farmers to adopt sustainable practices.”
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Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Speaker: Matthew MacLachlan and Megan Sweitzer
Description: How much are food prices predicted to increase in 2023?
USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) forecasts annual food price changes in the Food Price Outlook (FPO) data product. Forecasting food price changes has become increasingly important due to the changing structure of food and agricultural economies and the important signals the forecasts provide to farmers, wholesalers, retailers, consumers, and policymakers. The FPO forecasts are primarily based on the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) data. The CPI for food measures changes over time in the retail prices paid by consumers for food away from home and for food at home categories such as meats, dairy products, and fruits and vegetables. ERS analyzes the current index levels, examines changes, and constructs forecasts of the CPI for food. ERS also analyzes and forecasts the PPI for farm-level agricultural and wholesale food markets. Like the CPI, the PPI measures price changes over time; however, instead of measuring changes in retail prices, the PPI measures the average changes in prices paid to domestic producers for their output.
In this webinar, ERS Economists Matthew MacLachlan and Megan Sweitzer will provide an overview of the data and analysis available from the Food Price Outlook data product, highlight its uses, and demonstrate how to find the data on the ERS website.
Register here: https://globalmeetwebinar.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1600633&tp_key=b1cd4ab812
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*Disclaimer - This email is to acknowledge citations of current AAEA members and/or their research in any public media channel. AAEA does not agree nor disagree with the views or attitudes of cited outside publications. Simon Somogyi, University of Guelph "Grocery CEOs Defend 'Reasonable Profitability’ In Grilling Over Soaring Food Costs" By: Global News - March 8, 2023 "Canadians meanwhile face soaring prices on meat, pasta, milk and other staples, grocers should be transparent about how much money they make on these sales. That information isn’t readily available. As those are the things that most consumers buy, I think it’s fair that we have some understanding of exactly how much profit there is.” (Continued...) Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Electric Vehicles Poised To Chip Away At Biofuel Production” By: Feed Strategy – March 6, 2023 “But renewable diesel is likely here to stay, at least for the time being. And with growing electric vehicle (EV) adoption set to decrease demand for ethanol, the balance of crop production may well be permanently altered.” (Continued...) Jada Thompson, University of Arkansas “High Egg Prices: Getting To The Bottom Line” By: The Hill – March 5, 2023 “While scrutiny of how consumer goods are priced is beneficial, it’s important to be careful when shining that light out of misguided fervor. Such may be the case with recent claims made by politicians and activist groups about causes for higher than typical egg prices. There is value in knowing how a specific market works and the impacts of supply and demand when considering price volatility.” (Continued...) Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Ag Economist Pushes For More Free Trade, Not Less” By: The Connection – February 24, 2023 “Exports are absolutely crucial to the agricultural sector, particularly in the Midwest. Those exports increased in 2022, in part because there was a drought and shortages, to a certain extent, in Brazil and Argentina,” two of the U.S.’s top export competitors.” (Continued...) Joe Janzen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “The Russia-Ukraine War and Changes In Ukraine Corn and Wheat Supply: Impacts On global Agricultural Markets” By: Farms.com – February 27, 2023 The impacts of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on Ukrainian corn and wheat supply are reassessed at the war’s one-year anniversary. Ukraine’s corn and wheat production and exports are of broad interest because they comprise a significant share of the global market for these crops. Overall, corn and wheat exports from Ukraine in the 2021/22 marketing year were down 20% from projections made before the conflict. (Continued...) Jonathan Coppess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Midwest Farmers Tripled Use of Cover Crops, But It's Still Just a Small Fraction Of Acres” By: CKUR - February 27, 2023 “It is certainly not at a level that would be necessary for some of the challenges, like the water quality challenges like soil erosion. It's going to take a lot more acres to get there. There could be more bipartisan support for incentives. It can maybe help jump start that by showing, you know, funds going in for this practice will get response on the ground, and we can measure (Continued...) Hope Michelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Global Fertilizer Market Update” By: Progressive Farmer – February 27 “High fertilizer prices hit all farmers hard, but they affect small, subsistence farmers and poor people across the world even harder. After decades of decline, global hunger affected 46 million more people in 2021 compared to 2020.” (Continued...) Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Bangladesh Agricultural University “A Big Farming Push” By: The Business Standard - March 5, 2023 "If the project can be implemented, it will transform agriculture and make it more commercially viable. Other crops besides rice, which is currently the main crop, will become more important. About 73% of our land is currently used for rice cultivation, and this project places special emphasis on rice. On the one hand, rice production will be increased, and on the other hand, other high-yielding crops will be grown in some areas to complement rice" (Continued...) Zach Rutledge, Michigan State University “Finding Solid Labor In a Tight Market” By: Country Folks Growers - March 3, 2023 “This is important because there was a decline in the number of Mexican immigrants between 2010 and 2020 for the first time in American history. Again unsurprisingly, that the supply of domestic farm labor declining – partially because there are better opportunities in non-farm sectors of the U.S. job market. There are also lower birth rates in Mexico. And until recently, there was tighter border security.” (Continued...) Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Biden's
Message To Wisconsin About Unemployment Compared To Statewide Data" "Experts
Weigh In On Wisconsin’s Proposed Budget Surplus" "Wisconsin
Hospital System Laying Off Over 300 Employees, Cites Cost and Revenue
Pressures" Jayson Lusk, Purdue University “Americans Planning Frugal Uses For Their 2023 Tax Refunds” By: Bioengineer.org – March 8, 2023 “There seems to be some optimism about food inflation improving, but consumers are not willing or able to spend more on food than they are currently. I would also not expect food spending to start falling unless economic conditions worsen, which is a real possibility. This month’s report highlights the role that frozen foods play in many consumer diets. Frozen vegetables are the most common item that people select from the freezer aisle. It appears that price is a key part of that decision.” (Continued...) Amit Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology "Can Global Warming Be Meaningfully Reduced By Taxing Cow Burps?" By: Rochester Business Journal - March 10, 2023 "It is now well known that the phenomenon of global warming also called climate change is caused significantly by the emissions of the so-called greenhouse gases. The principal culprit here is carbon dioxide which is emit-ted into the atmosphere from the com- bustion of fossil fuels. Given the salient contribution of carbon dioxide to global warming, policymakers throughout the world have focused their attention on the steps that we humans can take to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels." (Continued...) |
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Chicago, IL – November 16-17, 2023
Climate change affects all aspects of the agricultural sector, from technology and input choices, to the wages and welfare of workers, to the prices consumers pay for food and agricultural products. To promote research on the distributional impacts of climate change, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with the generous support of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), will convene a research conference in Chicago on November 16-17, 2023. The conference will be organized by Ellen Bruno and Meredith Fowlie of the University of California, Berkeley, and Danae Hernandez-Cortes of Arizona State University.
Research submissions that explore the distributional implications of climate change in an agricultural context are encouraged. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
The organizers welcome submissions of both empirical and theoretical research, including papers by scholars who are early in their careers, who are not NBER affiliates, and who are from groups that are under-represented in the economics profession. The program will prioritize research on the U.S. agricultural sector and economy. To be considered for inclusion on the program, papers must be uploaded by midnight (EDT) on Thursday, June 15, 2023 via the following link: http://conference.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=AEf23
Complete papers are preferred, but extended abstracts may also be submitted. Please do not submit papers that have been accepted for publication and that will be published by November 2023. Authors chosen to present papers will be notified in early July. A virtual pre-conference meeting will be convened in August 2023. The organizers will consider publishing the papers presented at this meeting in an edited NBER proceedings volume, or in a special issue of a refereed journal, subject to the interest of the paper
Questions about this conference may be addressed to [email protected].
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*Disclaimer - This email is to acknowledge citations of current AAEA members and/or their research in any public media channel. AAEA does not agree nor disagree with the views or attitudes of cited outside publications. Patrick Westhoff, University of Missouri “What The CBO Budget Outlook Means For The Farm Bill Debate” By: Yahoo! News - February 26, 2023 “New budget projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will provide a point of reference for the debate over the next farm bill. If the debate follows the pattern of recent farm bills, budgetary concerns are likely to be front and center.” (Continued...) Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "How Green Are Biofuels? Does Corn-Derived Ethanol Promote Sustainability?" By: Genetic Literacy Project - February 23, 2023 “It is also becoming clearer to the scientists who’ve been debating biofuels that they’ll never resolve their differences on the exact effects of biofuel production on greenhouse emissions. It’s a very polarized question. For some, concerns will remain, no matter what the evidence is.” (Continued...) Jayson Lusk, Purdue University "Are You A Smart Shopper?” By: PBS News Hour- March 2, 2023 “Incomes, by and large, have not kept pace with the increases in the food prices that we've seen. So the consequence of that is people aren't able to afford as much food as they did a year ago. The recent inflation also means buyers are not able to weather the costs like they did when prices went up in 2021, when they may have had more money saved or were receiving more aid. There was a lot of money in the economy and people were just stomaching those higher prices. Now, they're starting to try to find ways to economize in ways they weren't even just six to 12 months ago.” (Continued...) David Ortega, Michigan State University “From Grocery Store Shelves To Restaurant Menus, Food Prices 10 Percent Higher Than a Year Ago" By: Wisconsin Public Radio - March 1, 2023 “The increase in food prices is significant, especially when compared to pre-pandemic averages. Food prices generally increase around 2 percent year over year. So when we're talking about double-digit increases for 11, almost 12 months, these are significant increases. We're all feeling this at the grocery store. Just about every food category has experienced price increases over the past year." (Continued...) Maria Gerveni, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "U of Illinois, USDA Ag Economists Issue Report On Location And Capacity of Biodiesel Plants" By: Agri Marketing- February 23, 2023 “Biodiesel production in the U.S. took off in the mid-2000s, driven by a plethora of federal and state incentives. Biodiesel capacity continued to expand after this initial period of explosive growth, but its potential has been threatened in recent years by the rapid buildout of renewable diesel production capacity." (Continued...) Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Economist Says There’s Little Difference Between ARC & PLC" By: Brownfield - February 22, 2023 "Neither ARC County or PLC are likely to make a payment for corn, soybeans, or wheat. commodity prices are higher and reference prices are too low to likely trigger any payments. If we get commodity prices down that low, $3.70 for corn, $8.40 for soybeans, and $5.50 for wheat, we have more problems than just low prices.” (Continued...) Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University "Avian Flu Fuels High U.S. Egg Prices" "Food Inflation In the U.S."
Amit Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology "Another Voice: California Is Seeing The Example In Reducing Emissions" By: Buffalo News - February 25, 2023 “Climate change is inarguably the most salient environmental problem confronting humankind today. This recognition has led policymakers to take all reasonable actions to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels and move toward a future in which the United States and more generally the world is powered by clean and renewable sources of energy.” (Continued...) Laura Kalambokidis, University of Minnesota "Minnesota's
Staggering Surplus Stays Mostly Unchanged at $17.5 Billion" "MN analysts: Recession Still Expected, but Milder Than
Previously Projected" "Minnesota's Budget Surplus Grew to $19 billion, But New
Law Requires Accounting for Inflation" Jason Winfree, University of Idaho "Idaho Congressmen Blast FDA Guidance On Alternative Milk Labeling" By: BSPR - February 24, 2023 “Largely, the question is, ‘Are consumers aware of what they’re buying? In its announcement, the FDA said consumers are indeed aware that almond milk does not come from cows. In fact, that’s sometimes why they seek such plant-based options out.” (Continued...) Oleg Nivievskyi, Kyiv School of Economics "Ukraine War: The Impact On Agriculture One Year On" By: Farmers Weekly - February 24, 2023 “Government and industry data show Ukraine’s expected crop output for this year is back to 2012 levels. Ukrainian farming enterprises are also struggling with liquidity challenges. Basically, the prices are too low because logistics costs are too high. Farmers can barely make a profit and the majority declare losses. A lack of access to financing in the private sector in wartime Ukraine, due to prohibitively high borrowing rates domestically and internationally, is compounding problems. More than 5m ha of Ukraine’s farmland has been damaged in the war. Vast areas will need de-mining and recultivating.” (Continued...) Marco Costanigro, Colorado State University "Wine Sales Coming To Colorado Grocery Stores Could Impact Liquor Store Sales by 10" By: KNC - February 27, 2023 "This is going to be more of a challenge for local liquor stores. We don't know what the survival rate is going to be. Many liquor stores were able to maintain their operations with the introduction of full-strength beer in grocery stores. However, it is yet to be seen how many will be able to handle an additional five percent lost revenue once the wine is allowed in grocery stores.” (Continued...) Jeffrey M. Perloff, University of California, Berkeley “A New Study Finds That The Affordable Care Act Helps Agricultural Workers Get Better Medical Care—And Avoid The ER.” By: Futurity - February 24, 2023 “This low-income, largely immigrant workforce has some of the worst health outcomes in the US. Traditionally, farm workers have had difficulty getting routine preventive care because they’re often itinerant, working for a succession of employers who don’t provide health benefits.” (Continued...) Joe Janzen , University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Russia-Ukraine War and Changes in Ukraine Corn and Wheat Supply: Impacts on Global Agricultural Markets” By: Farms.com - February 27, 2023 “The impacts of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on Ukrainian corn and wheat supply are reassessed at the war’s one-year anniversary. Ukraine’s corn and wheat production and exports are of broad interest because they comprise a significant share of the global market for these crops. Overall, corn and wheat exports from Ukraine in the 2021/22 marketing year were down 20% from projections made before the conflict.” (Continued...) Kuan-Ju Chen, University of Guam “Cultural Exchange And Collaboration': Guam, Taiwan Institutions Sign MOU” By: The Guam Daily Post - February 28, 2023 “The partnership could also potentially boost tourism and the economy on both islands by promoting cultural tourism and generating interest in Austronesian culture and literature. Guam is also part of the Austronesian cultural and linguistic sphere, as it is home to the Chamoru people, who are an Indigenous Austronesian group.” (Continued...) Clayton P. Michaud, USDA Economic Research Service “Reps Say USDA Lax In Tracking Ag Land” By: Progressive Farmer - February 27, 2023 "More recently it has kind of evolved where now we have a lot more concerns that are rooted in things like national security. The prospect of foreign companies buying up land close to the military bases, for example. We also have natural resource scarcity concerns, right, so foreign companies using land and in drought-ridden areas to produce, let's say alfalfa that then they shipped back for domestic cattle production. And then also, of course, we have supply chain issues that given COVID and the war in Ukraine have become all the more relevant." (Continued...) |
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Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Presenter: Jonathan McFadden, Economic Research Service, USDA
Description:
Digital agriculture may be a part of the solution to challenges facing U.S. agriculture, including rising production costs, climate change, and labor shortages, among others.
During this webinar, ERS Research Economist Jonathan McFadden will present an overview of the Precision Agriculture in the Digital Era: Recent Adoption on U.S. Farms report, which documents trends in the U.S. farm sector’s adoption of digital agriculture technologies between 1996 and 2019, with emphasis on changes since 2016, using data from USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey.Register now: https://globalmeetwebinar.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1601058&tp_key=c7c687bdf6
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*Disclaimer - This email is to acknowledge citations of current AAEA members and/or their research in any public media channel. AAEA does not agree nor disagree with the views or attitudes of cited outside publications. Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont “Did Telecoms Overreport Their Broadband Coverage In Underserved Areas?” By: Marketplace - February 17, 2023 “some of the most underserved communities had the least capacity to fight. If your community does not have the resources in order to follow through on what is a very bureaucratic process,” then it might lose out on once-in-a-generation funding.” (Continued...) Chad Hart, Iowa State University “Study: Iowa Ethanol Production Would Shrink If Carbon Pipelines Don't Move Forward In Iowa” By: WVIK - February 16, 2023 “The study puts into perspective how carbon pipelines can reshape financial opportunities for ethanol plants and how that might change the industry itself going forward. When asked if capturing and sequestering carbon is “life or death” for the ethanol industry, Hart said he wouldn’t agree with that claim. But I would agree that it does have a major impact on for how long the ethanol industry will remain a very strong, viable industry within the power and fuel sector." (Continued...) Jennifer Ifft, Kansas State University “K-State Ag Economist Urges Producers to Review Crop Insurance Options” By: The Mercury - February 18, 2023 “High coverage policies – such as SCO and ECO and Margin Protection that is purchased in the fall – represent a different approach to managing risk that requires a larger upfront investment. I suggest producers work closely with an agent to make sure you fully understand what you are getting into. Crop insurance is purchased by farmers and subsidized by the U.S. government to protect against the loss of their crops due to natural disasters, or loss of revenue due to declines in the price of the particular crop they’re insuring. High coverage policies are county-level crop insurance options that provide additional coverage for a portion of the producer’s deductible. High coverage policies require a long-term perspective. Premiums and payouts are substantially higher than traditional crop insurance policies.” (Continued...) Jayson Lusk, Purdue University “Food Survey Queries Consumers About New Year’s Resolutions, Risk Tolerance” By: DRG News - February 18, 2023 “People are generally knowledgeable about the actions needed to improve health and want to pursue them – such as increasing fruits and vegetables and exercising more. It appears that people have already cut back and found deals to help stop their food spending from continually rising. If food inflation does not come down significantly this year, consumers might not have much room to maneuver their budgets further.” (Continued...) Dan Petrolia, Mississippi State University "Sediment Diversion Likely to Trigger Seafood Price Spike" By: Local Today - February 16, 2023 “Those prices are going to go up. People may want Louisiana shrimp, but the higher prices may push them to swap Louisiana shrimp for imported ones…With oysters, it might not be a price issue. There may be nothing left to harvest.” (Continued...) Gary Schnitkey, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “South America Has Large Impact On Markets, Exports” By: Missouri Farmer Today - February 11, 2023 “South America now has a greater presence in the world soybean market than the U.S.,” the authors say. “Understanding soybean production in South America is as important, maybe more important for American farmers and agribusinesses than understanding soybean production in the U.S. The U.S. remains the world’s leading producer of corn, but understanding South American corn production has become important to being an informed producer and marketer of corn.” (Continued...) Eric Belasco, Montana State University "Montana Ranchers Struggling Despite Good Beef Prices’" By: Bozeman Daily Chronicle - February 17, 2023 "It’s a frustrating position to be in. Most ranchers would like to see a bigger herd right now, but they don’t have the conditions to carry that. Belasco said it takes a long time for ranchers to rebuild reduced herd sizes. Last year, Montana saw the biggest cattle inventory drop of any U.S. state. So this year’s two percent drop feels much better." (Continued...) David Ortega, Michigan State University “How Eggs Impact the Price of
Everything” "Eggs Remain a Value Buy" William Ridley, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “How U.S. Cotton Exports Are Shifting In Response to Competition And Trade Policy” By: Farmers Advance - February 22, 2023 “While the t-shirt you are wearing is likely to be made in China, Vietnam or Pakistan, it may be produced from cotton grown much closer to home. The U.S. is a major world supplier of cotton, exporting much of the production to markets in Asia, where it goes into textile manufacturing. However, growing competition from Brazil and the effects of recent trade policies are shifting global market trends.” (Continued...) Kate Fuller, Montana State University “Ag Land Lease Rates Up Slightly in 2022, with One Major Exception” By: Northern Ag. Network - February 21, 2023 "2022 lease rates did not decline in Montana. Mostly, they were up slightly, following a pattern that has been seen for many years: average lease rates inch up, but once inflation is taken into account, they are just about the same as last year.” (Continued...) Lotanna Emediegwu, Manchester Metropolitan University "Ukraine Invasion One Year On: Food Security Concerns Persist” By: Just Food - February 23, 2023 “Every continent in the world is quite dependent on this region. In terms of where we are now, developing country prices are still on the rise. Food inflation is going up. Lebanon, for example, has seen a 400% rise in food prices in the last year and Zimbabwe more than 70% in one year. Some nations in the EU are getting a large quantity of these [Black Sea] exports. Most of the supply is going to the EU and this is understandable because Ukraine needs money. Some developing countries, such as Nigeria, have a debt crisis which makes it difficult to trade internationally.” (Continued...) Zach Rutledge, Michigan State University "Shifting Labor Trends" By: Good Fruit Grower - February 13, 2023 "There’s been quite a bit of research over the past decade showing that the supply of domestic foreign labor is declining. One of the big reasons is that there are other opportunities in nonfarm sectors of the U.S. There are lower birth rates in Mexico, too, and, until recently, U.S. border security was tighter." (Continued...) |
As an allied association, AAEA has invited AARES to organize a symposium at the 2023 Annual Meeting of AAEA to be held in Washington, D.C., July 23- 25, 2023 at the Marriott Marquis. Located just a mile from the National Mall, in the heart of the city.
AARES is seeking Expressions of Interests (EoI) from members to participate in this opportunity.
Electronic EoIs (in pdf format), addressing the following criteria, will be received as an email to Mersine Dandas at [email protected] until Sunday, May 5, 2023.
At least one proposer for the organized symposium must be a member of AAEA, and all presenters, speakers, and/or discussants at the Annual Meeting must be members of AAEA and registered for the Annual Meeting by Thursday, May 17, 2023.
Selection Process
A committee chaired by the Immediate Past President will assess the EoIs and a recommendation made to the AARES Executive.
The successful team will be notified by March 10, 2023.
Submission Deadlines and Details
AARES endorsed submission need to reach AAEA by March 20, 2023.
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