Wendong Zhang, Cornell University
“Ag Trade Crucial for U.S. Farmers’ Bottom Lines”
By: Iowa Farmer Today – February 7, 2025
“It’s very critical,” he says. “More than 20% of the agricultural products in the U.S. go overseas. More than half of the soybeans are going overseas, and more than half of those are going to China. … Ag trade is a very critical part of the success of U.S. agriculture.”
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Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“The Best Possible Case for Trump’s Announced Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China”
By: Rochester Business Journal – February 6, 2025
“Economic theory is clear on what is likely to happen to a nation when it levies tariffs on its trading partners. If the nation is small, meaning that its actions have no impact on world prices, then the best course of action for such a nation is to not levy tariffs at all. Doing so will make this nation unambiguously worse off.”
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Sawssan Boufous, New Mexico State University
“Forest Carbon Credits Seen as 'Tool in the Toolbox' in Effort to Curb Climate Change”
By: Iowa Public Radio – February 10, 2025
“The criticism, it's real, but it's not something that we can avoid. Carbon markets do help companies, but there’s a bigger benefit for landowners and the overall effort to curb climate change… It’s a win-win strategy. It’s a win for companies wanting to reach their emission goals, but it can be a bigger win for landowners who get a financial incentive while also keeping the land as forests.”
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James Mintert, Purdue
University
Michael Langemeier, Purdue University
- “Trade
War Potential Not Dampening Producer Optimism”
By: National Hog Farmer – February 6, 2025 - “New Year
Brings Increase in Optimism Among Farmers”
By: Inside Indiana Business – February 11, 2025
Aaron Smith, University of California, Davis
“Study Looks at if US Farmland is Better Used for Corn Ethanol or Solar Power”
By: SAN – February 5, 2025
“Solar energy projects create a financial loss of $5,103 per acre. Additionally, corn farming yields a profit of $170 per acre. However, this is without considering the impact of federal renewable energy incentives.”
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David Anderson, Texas A&M University
“Why Wing Prices Haven't Matched Egg Price Rises”
By: Newser – February 7, 2025
“The Super Bowl has always driven demand for wings, and that is not going to change. But wings have also become an everyday menu item, which means we are seeing other spikes throughout the year likely based on supply and demand. Wings were a poultry cut that used to be practically worthless. Then someone tossed them in some buffalo sauce and dipped them in blue cheese or ranch dressing.”
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Jill McCluskey, Washington State University
“How Women Saved Agricultural Economics and Other Ideas For Why Diversity Matters”
By: Farms.com - February 7, 2025
“Women entered agricultural economics in significant numbers starting in the 1980s, and their ranks have increased over time. Women have increased the relevance in the field of agricultural economics through their diverse interests, perspectives, and experiences. In their research, women have expanded the field's treatment of non-traditional topics such as food safety and nutrition and environmental and natural resource economics. In this sense, women saved the Agricultural Economics profession from a future as a specialty narrowly focused on agricultural production and markets.”
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Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis
“Sacramento’s Winners and Losers Under Donald Trump’s New Tariff Policies”
By: Sacramento Bee - February 9, 2025
“Right now, today, somebody is saying, ‘I’m not going to expand my dairy herd because they may well put on (tariffs). And somebody else maybe right now, today, says ‘I’m going to plant that thousand acres not with pistachios, but table grapes, because I think we’re gonna have these tariffs on Mexico.’Those decisions could yield dividends, or prove costly. And that doesn’t count people staying up at night thinking about it.”
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Rabail Chandio, Iowa State University
- “Study:
Iowa Farmland Values Decline After 5-Year Climb”
By: The Gazette – December 18, 2024 - “Iowa
2024 Farmland Values Dip”
By: Who Radio – December 17, 2024 - “Iowa's
Average Farmland Values Decline For First Time in 5 Years in New Iowa
State Study”
By: Des Moines Register – December 17, 2024 - “Iowa
Farmland Posts 3% Decline”
By: Pro Farmer - December 17, 2024 - “For the
First Time in Five Years, Iowa Farmland Values Fall”
By: Pro Ag – December 20, 2024 - “Five-Year
Trend Breaks as Farmland Down 3.1%”
By: Iowa Farm Bureau – December 23, 2024
William Ridley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Proposed Tariff Tax Could Affect Electronics and Cars”
By: WAND-TV – February 3, 2025
“An IPhone or any other electronic device is going to contain parts that are made, you know, from places all over the world…so we really, you know, given that economies today are so tightly integrated, it's that, you know, for any sort of product…When you put a tariff on imports of those goods and it becomes costlier for those sorts of inputs to move across the border, those price impacts are going to be translated into consumer and household effects.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “Groceries
Are the New Social Media Flex as Food Prices Rise”
By: The Washington Post – February 13, 2025 - “Grocery
Prices Jumped 0.5% Last Month. Here’s Where Shoppers Were Hit Hardest”
By: USA Today – February 12, 2025 - “U.S. Egg
Prices Reach 45-Year High as Bird Flu Intensifies”
By: Think Global Health – February 12, 2025 - “‘We’ll
All Have To Go Vegan’: Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Fret Over Immigration
Crackdown”
By: Financial Times – February 11, 2025
Luis Garcia-Covarrubias, University
of California, Davis
Luis
Peña-Lévano, University
of California, Davis
Allan Pinto,
Cornell University
“How the Avian Flu is Impacting California’s Dairy Farmers”
By: Your Central Valley – February 12, 2025
“The avian flu has impacted herds of dairy cows all over the country, but the largest number of cases have been found in California. Why this is happening? The right answer is we don’t know... It could be an important economic cost. So it’s something we need to keep preventing"
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Paul Mitchell, University of Wisconsin - Madison
“How is the Ag Economy Doing? Depends on Who You Ask”
By: Farm Progress - February 12, 2025
“This was a somber year for grain farmers. Crop revenues were down 9.2% from the previous year. How is the ag economy doing overall? It depends on who you are talking to. Dairy income was up 11.5% in 2024, while livestock revenue was up 8.4% in 2024 compared to 2023.”
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