Joseph Glauber, IRPRI
Patrick Westhoff, University of Missouri
'Here's your check': Trump's massive payouts to farmers will be hard to pull back
By: Politico & South China Morning Post - July 14, 2020
“It’s hard rolling back these things,”
said Joseph Glauber, senior fellow at the International Food Policy
Research Institute and former USDA chief economist. “The headlines are
going to scream when [USDA] puts out a February 2021 farm income
forecast that doesn’t show any ad hoc payments. Those will be ripped out
of the balance sheet.”
“There will obviously be political
pressure to make sure the sector is as financially healthy as possible,”
said Patrick Westhoff, FAPRI’s director. “If we’re looking at a sharp
downturn in farm income in front of us without additional payments, you
can bet there will be a lot of pressure for payments to occur.”
(Continued...)
Read more on: Politico & South China Morning Post
David Orden, Virginia Tech
China objects to US retaliation over grain subsidies
By: Agri-Pulse - July 29, 2020
The Chinese proposal, while
potentially complying with WTO precedent, is basically “sleight of
hand,” says David Orden, a professor at Virginia Tech University’s
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. “By announcing these
limits, China is saying it is now in compliance. The limit is more than
the expected procurement, so it’s not going to have any real effect on
what they procure.”
(Continued...)
Read more on: Agri-Pulse
Joseph Glauber, IFPRI
James Mintert, Purdue University
Indiana Farmland Values Increase, Signs Point to Potential COVID-19 Slump
By: AgFax - July 27, 2020
For a more in–depth analysis of the
survey, the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture will host a free
webinar from 3:30–4:30 p.m. EDT on Aug. 7. The public is invited to
join Purdue agricultural economists Kuethe, James Mintert, and Michael
Langemeier as they breakdown the Purdue Farmland Values Survey and USDA
Land Values report, discuss marketing strategies for 2020 corn and
soybean crops, and make projections for 2021 corn and soybean returns.
(Continued...)
Read more on: AgFax
Daniel Bigelow, Montana State University
What factors impact land values?
By: Western Farmer-Stockman - July 27, 2020
“The value is a function of current
income, expected future income and interest rates,” explains Dan
Bigelow, assistant professor of agricultural economics at Montana State
University. “The per-acre value of farmland serves as a barometer for
the overall financial well-being of the ag sector.” For 2020, farm real
estate is estimated as 83% of the ag sector asset value.
(Continued...)
Read more on: Western Farmer-Stockman
Aaron Shew, Arkansas State University
Brandon McFadden, University of Delaware
Crop burning to be studied
By: Talk Business & Politics - July 29, 2020
“The goal of this
large-scale, collaborative project is capacity building for the A-State
College of Agriculture to participate in high quality research and
extension,” Shew said. “A-State’s collaborations with these other
institutions will raise the potential for faculty to conduct impactful
research and work with the state Cooperative Extension Service to
disseminate information to producers.”
Researchers from
the other involved institutions include Dr. Jarrod Hardke, rice
agronomist, Extension Service, University of Arkansas; Dr. Jack Cothren,
director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies and professor,
University of Arkansas; Dr. Jessica McCarty, director of the Geospatial
Analysis Center and assistant professor, Miami University; and Dr.
Brandon McFadden, assistant professor of agricultural economics,
University of Delaware.
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Read more on: Talk Business & Politics
Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USDA pandemic food box program extended
By: Marketplace - July 28, 2020
“If you were to put together these
food boxes, to apply the same amount of food that’s being given through
SNAP, it would be just enormous,” Gundersen said.
He added that the average benefit
under SNAP is about $275 a month. The maximum can be much more. And
packing up all that food in a box would be expensive.
(Continued...)
Read more on: Marketplace
Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University
Joseph Galuber, IRPRI
Todd Hubbs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Global ag trade feels COVID-19 impact
By: World-Grain - June 26, 2020
Ongoing measures to limit the spread
of the coronavirus (COVID-19) are impacting global trade of agricultural
products and will be a significant factor in whether China will meet
its phase one trade commitments with the United States.
(Continued...)
Read more on: World-Grain
Jayson Lusk, Purdue University
PISC Highlights Animal Food Industry in Age of COVID-19
By: Milling and Grain & Feed & Grain - June 28, 2020
Jayson Lusk, Ph.D., distinguished
professor and head of the agricultural economics department at Purdue
University, spoke on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting consumers’
shopping behaviors and what they will demand in the future.
(Continued...)
Read more on: Milling and Grain & Feed & Grain
Anjani Kumar, IFPRI
Cash, on delivery: How India has taken up DBT in the times of COVID-19
By: DownToEarth - July 12, 2020
“In the last few days, I spoke to 40
to 50 beneficiaries in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who have Jan Dhan
accounts and are getting the money,” said Anjani Kumar, former principal
scientist with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and
currently a research fellow with the International Food Policy Research
Institute.
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Read more on: DownToEarth
James MacDonald, USDA-Economic Research Service
- Detailed history of the consolidation of ag in the US shared
By: Scientific Inquirer, Vegetable Growers News, & Science Daily - July 27, 2020 - Farm Consolidation: Successes and Failures of Earlier Modeling
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Ruiqing Miao, Auburn University
Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Food-Energy-Water Nexus and Emerging Agricultural Technologies
By: Farms.com - July 27, 2020
The world population is expected to
reach 9.7 billion by 2050 (United Nations 2019), resulting in grand
demand for food, energy, and water (FEW) to sustain human life and
well-being. As the leading food producing country in the world, the
United States therefore faces increasing pressure to meet this grand
demand. Since food production requires tremendous amount of water and
energy and since the chemical uses in crop production reduce water
quality, how to optimize resource utilization in the FEW nexus arises as
a pressing issue in the realm of agricultural production and resource
management.
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Read more on: Farms.com
Johan Swinnen, IFPRI
2020 Global Food Policy Report: IFPRI for building inclusive food systems
By: Dhaka Tribune - July 6, 2020
“Food systems provide opportunities to
improve food and nutrition security, generate income, and drive
inclusive economic growth, but even in prosperous times too many people
are excluded from fully participating in them and securing these
benefits,” said Johan Swinnen, director general of IFPRI.
(Continued...)
Read more on: Dhaka Tribune
Courtney Bir, Oklahoma State University
Survey: Oklahomans have conflicting feelings for masks, COVID-19 dangers
By: The Oklahoman - July 28, 2020
“The multi-state focus is important
because decisions regarding the pandemic tend to be influenced by states
within a region," said Courtney Bir, OSU Extension agricultural
economist. "Plus borders on a map are not a magic wall; coronavirus can
spread across state lines easily.”
(Continued...)
Read more on: The Oklahoman
Courtney Bir, Oklahoma State University
Cheryl DeVuyst, Oklahoma State University
OSU study provides insights into regional beliefs about pandemic-related wearing of masks
By: The Claremore Daily Progress - July 27, 2020
“The multi-state focus is important
because decisions regarding the pandemic tend to be influenced by states
within a region, plus borders on a map are not a magic wall;
coronavirus can spread across state lines easily,” said Courtney Bir,
OSU Extension agricultural economist who was part of the
multi-institutional research team.
“Dr. Bir is providing unbiased
research on key areas associated with risk management and informed
decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Cheryl DeVuyst, head
of OSU’s Department of Agricultural Economics. “Schools, community
organizations and business owners trust our faculty to provide
fact-based input as they make important decisions.”
(Continued...)
Read more on: The Claremore Daily Progress
Nicole Olynk Widmar, Purdue University
Survey: Masks have role in US response to COVID-19
By: Herald Journal & Hoosier Times - July 25 & 29, 2020
“We’re still in the beginning of
understanding what U.S. residents see as the role for masks in reopening
society, as well as why they do or do not comply,” said Nicole Olynk
Widmar, professor and associate department head of agricultural
economics at Purdue and co-author of the study.
(Continued...)
Read more on: Herald Journal & Hoosier Times
Paul Jakus, Utah State University
Sherzod Akhundjanov, Utah State University
USU professors eye impact of West’s national monuments
By: Cache Valley Daily - July 26, 2020
Paul Jakus and Sherzod Akhundjanov
studied 20 counties near federally protected lands in five western
states and found no evidence that a monument designation affected income
in those counties.
(Continued...)
Read more on: Cache Valley Daily
Shenggen Fan, IFPRI
Why food policy has evolved rapidly for the past three decades?
By: Seed Daily, Wine Diva Lifestyle, The Middletown Press, Chron, Stamford Advocate, 21 WFMJ, One News Page, NewsBlaze, KAKE, State of Digital Publishing, A Rain of Thought, Erie News Now, Seed Daily, BENZINGA, Magic 106.5, Morning News, Winslow, Evans, & Crocker Inc., Daily Times Leader, AZ Central, Fat Pitch Financials, Big Spring Herald, Fox 21 Delmarva, The Saline Courier, WICZ, Finanzen.net, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Punxsutawney Spirit, Markets Insider, WBOC, Decatur Daily Democrat, The Kane Republican, myMotherLode, The Pilot News, The Buffalo News, The Post and Mail, Wapakoneta Daily News, The Community Post, The Evening Leader, Ask, The Antlers American, Chronicle Journal, Sweetwater Reporter, Starkville Daily News, The Inyo Register, NewsOK, The Observer News Online, & The Ridgway Record - July 29, 2020
Fan says, "For the past 30 years, the
objectives food policy have evolved from increasing food availability to
food accessibility, better managmnet of natural resource management and
climate change, and tacking poverty and malnutrtion. Only until very
recenlty has a food system approach been used to tackle all these
challenges together. The COVID-19 Pandemic is a wake up call for food
policy analyst to rethink of food systems we would like to have in the
future. Among many features, resilience and inclusion must become more
prominent."
(Continued...)
Read more on: Seed Daily, Wine Diva Lifestyle, The Middletown Press, Chron, Stamford Advocate, 21 WFMJ, One News Page, NewsBlaze, KAKE, State of Digital Publishing, A Rain of Thought, Erie News Now, Seed Daily, BENZINGA, Magic 106.5, Morning News, Winslow, Evans, & Crocker Inc., Daily Times Leader, AZ Central, Fat Pitch Financials, Big Spring Herald, Fox 21 Delmarva, The Saline Courier, WICZ, Finanzen.net, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Punxsutawney Spirit, Markets Insider, WBOC, Decatur Daily Democrat, The Kane Republican, myMotherLode, The Pilot News, The Buffalo News, The Post and Mail, Wapakoneta Daily News, The Community Post, The Evening Leader, Ask, The Antlers American, Chronicle Journal, Sweetwater Reporter, Starkville Daily News, The Inyo Register, NewsOK, The Observer News Online, & The Ridgway Record
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