Members in the News: Costanigro, Kaiser, Messer, Hayes, Grebitus, Davis, Taylor, Young, Deller, Mitchell, Joshi, Outlaw, Muhammad, Fuller, and Doye

Marco Costanigro, Colorado State University Harry Kaiser, Cornell University Kent Messer, University of Delaware Stop the Food Label Fear-Mongering By: U.S. News - January30, 2018 And this isn't just supposition. A recent study by a group of academics at the University of Delaware found that absence claims labels "can stigmatize food produced with conventional processes even when there is no scientific evidence that they cause harm, or even that it is compositionally different." (Continued...) Read more on: U.S. News Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University U.S. farmers have much to lose if NAFTA deal collapses By: Reuters and Winnipeg Free Press - January 28, 2018 “The U.S. is behaving so badly it’s going to create opportunities for Canadian agriculture,” Iowa State University economist Dermot Hayes said last week during a visit to Winnipeg. (Continued...) Read more on:  Reuters and Winnipeg Free Press   Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University George Davis, Virginia Tech Nutritional fact panel update? 'Sinle design not uniformly effective,' says study By: Food Navigator- November 17, 2017 "Salad is easy to identify as very healthy, chips are easily identifiable as a very unhealthy product for consumers," said the study, led by Dr. George Davis, professor at the department of human nutrition, foods, and exercise at Virginia Tech University. "Consumbers may already hold the opinion that products are healthful or unhealthful..." (Continued...) Read more on: Food Navigator Mykel Taylor, Kansas State University Women in agriculture to meet in Kansas this month By: Citizen Tribune- February 1, 2018 An associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University, Mykel Taylor, will provide information in regard to measuring basic risk for commodity grains. Taylor will evaluate Farm Bill commodity programs and will analyze trends in Kansas agricultural land values, rental rates and leasing arrangements. (Continued...) Read more on: Citizen Tribune Robert Young, American Farm Bureau Federation Regulators did their job, now let agriculture merger go through Written by Robert Young: The Hill- January 31, 2018 There is no denying the U.S. farming economy is in a constant state of flux. If ever there was a sector that is attuned to technology, it must be American agriculture. Farmers have to be financers of the first order to work in the kind of high-capital, low-margin business in which they chose to make a living.  (Continued...) Read more on: The Hill Steve Deller, University of Wisconsin Paul Mitchell, University of Wisconsin Trade to be the big issue in coming year By: Wisconsin State Farmer- January 30, 2018 “You’d think we coordinated our presentations, because we’re all talking about the importance of trade,” said economics professor Steve Deller, “but we didn’t.” “Trade solves a lot of our oversupply issues, with exports in dairy, corn and soybeans,” said Paul Mitchell, an agricultural economist professor at the UW-Madison who is also director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute. “Trade is going to be the big issue.” (Continued...) Read more on: Wisconsin State Farmer PK Joshi, International Food Policy Research Institute Insight : Budget Expectation 2018 - Agriculture Sector By: Lok Sabha TV- January 22, 2018 India’s Lok Sabha Television broadcast a panel discussion on expectations of the agriculture sector from the upcoming Union Budget 2018. IFPRI-SAO’s Pramod K. Joshi, a panelist, outlined a five-pronged strategy for the sector focusing on increasing farm and non-farm income in rural areas; creating rural employment; reducing risk; creating agri-infrastructure; and improving quality of rural life. (Continued...) Read more on: Lok Sabha TV Joe Outlaw, Texas A&M University Texas: Farm Bill Discussed at 56th Blackland Income Growth Conference By: AGFAX- January 16, 2018 Dr. Joe Outlaw, AgriLife Extension economist in College Station, told attendees at the 56th Blackland Income Growth Conference that cotton farmers could receive assistance as part of an $81 billion disaster payment package that would make seed cotton eligible for commodity subsidies linked to crop prices. (Continued...) Read more on: AGFAX Andrew Muhammad, USDA-Economic Research Service UT Institute of Agriculture Selects Blasingame Chair of Excellence By: WGNS Radio- February 1, 2018 The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture welcomes Andrew Muhammad as the recently named Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural, Food, and Natural Resource Policy. (Continued...) Read more on: WGNS Radio Paul Mitchell, University of Wisconsin HOWARD MARKLEIN: Looking ahead for agriculture in Wisconsin By: Tamah Journal- January 26, 2018 Farm income isn’t good, but it’s not getting worse,” according to Dr. Paul Mitchell, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who presented at the 2018 Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum. Each year, I attend this forum that is hosted by the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. This forum offers an analysis of the national and Wisconsin farm economy and forecasts for the future of agriculture over the next year. If you would like to review the data, information and ideas presented, please visit: renk.aae.wisc.edu/ (Continued...) Read more on: Tamah Journal Kate Fuller, Montana State University Wage growth in Missoula outpaces all cities in Montana By: Missoulian - January 26, 2018 Kate Fuller, an economist with Montana State University’s Department of Agricultural Economics, said Montana farmers are just beginning to realize the potential of large-scale organic wheat and pulses. (Continued...) Read more on: Missoulian Damona Doye, Oklahoma State University Lawton native tapped to lead OCES By: The Lawton Constitution- January 28, 2018 Lawton native Damona Doye has been named associate vice president of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, making her the first female to head the statewide agency. (Continued...) Read more on: The Lawton Constitution

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