Members in the News: Johnston, Cakir, Newton, Parman, Doye, Hayes, Zhang, Maples, Lusk, and Fields

Josh Maples, Mississippi State University Cattle have gotten so big that restaurants and grocery stores need new ways to cut steaks By: The Washington Post - December 7, 2017 “If you buy a steak, you have a picture in your mind of what it should look like,” said Josh Maples, an agricultural economist at Mississippi State who has studied the new cuts. “If you make that thinner, or you cut it in half — for many people, that ruins the eating experience.” "The underlying studies date back to publications in the 1990s, but it really dates back to science from the 1980s," said Thomas Hertel, Purdue distinguished professor of agricultural economics, whose findings were published in Nature Communications. "It was optimistic on the benefits to agriculture from rising temperatures." (Continued...) Read the entire press release on The Washington Post Robert Johnston, Clark University EPA’s new science advisers add more industry experts, conservatives to the mix By: The Washington Post - November 4, 2017 Clark University economics professor Robert Johnston, who had one year left to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board, said in a phone interview he did not want to give up his portion of a nearly $800,000 grant he and his colleagues share with researchers at Virginia Tech and the University of New Hampshire. The project, which has been underway for more than two years, seeks to evaluate how water quality is understood and valued by the public through a case study of river quality in New England. "The underlying studies date back to publications in the 1990s, but it really dates back to science from the 1980s," said Thomas Hertel, Purdue distinguished professor of agricultural economics, whose findings were published in Nature Communications. "It was optimistic on the benefits to agriculture from rising temperatures." (Continued...) Read the entire press release on The Washington Post Metin Cakir, University of Minnesota John Newton, American Farm Bureau Your Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper this year. Here's why By: LA Times- November 22, 2017 “Due to NAFTA, the drop in exports was not as bad as it could have been because NAFTA allows regionalization,” said Metin Cakir, an economist who studies agricultural issues at the University of Minnesota. (Continued...) Read the entire article on LA Times Bryon Parman, Mississippi State University Business 101 demands accurate farm enterprise budgets By: Delta FarmPress - December 5, 2017 “It’s business 101,” says Dr. Bryon Parman, assistant professor, Mississippi State University, department of agricultural economics. He adds that farmers are good at farming, raising crops, but not as accomplished with the business end of farming, which, he believes, is at least as important as the agronomic aspects. (Continued...) Read the entire article on Delta FarmPress Damona Doye, Oklahoma State University OSU’s Doye named Southern Region Excellence in Extension award winner by APLU By: Southwest FarmPress- December 5, 2017 As a Regents professor in Oklahoma State University’s Department of Agricultural Economics and OSU Cooperative Extension economist, Doye was recently selected as the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ Southern Region Excellence in Extension award winner. (Continued...) Read the entire article on Southwest FarmPress Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University Opinion: Withdrawal from NAFTA will harm U.S. agriculture Written By: Dermot Hayes for AgriPulse- December 1, 2017 The United States exported more than $12 billion of agricultural products to Mexico in 2016. This included approximately 10 percent of all pork production and 5 percent of poultry and beef production. Dairy product exports exceeded $1 billion, and corn, soybeans, and wheat exports reached $5 billion. While Mexico is known for its exports of fruits and vegetables, U.S. exports of such products to Mexico reached $1.3 billion. These exports have grown rapidly because of free trade between the United States and Mexico and, until recently, were expected to continue growing.        (Continued...) Read the entire article on AgriPulse Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University ISU Analysis Shows E10 in China Could Create Demand for U.S. Corn and Ethanol By: WNAX - December 1, 2017 An analysis by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University shows China’s new E10 mandate could create more demand for U.S. corn and ethanol. ISU Economics Professor Dermot Hayes says China recently reduced their corn stocks and announced the E10 directive. He says as a result China will either need to import corn to produce that ethanol or just import the biofuel. (Continued...) Read the entire article on WNAX Josh Maples, Mississippi State University Jayson Lusk, Purdue University Consumer preferences for their beef steaks a battle of 'tradition' versus 'new' By: The Ada News- December 2, 2017 “Most people don’t want to eat a 32-ounce steak, with the consequence that steaks from today’s larger beef cattle are often cut thinner than what was done traditionally,” said Jayson Lusk, head of Purdue University’s department of agricultural economics, speaking about research on which he worked while a faculty member at Oklahoma State University. (Continued...) Read the entire article on The Ada News Deacue Fields, Auburn University UA taps Auburn professor to lead agriculture school By: Arkansas Online- December 1, 2017 A longtime Auburn University professor will lead the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's agriculture college, the university announced Tuesday. Deacue Fields III is expected to begin in mid-May as dean of UA's Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, pending approval by the University of Arkansas System board of trustees. (Continued...) Read the entire article on Arkansas Online

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