Members in the News: Belasco, Outlaw, Westhoff, Plastina, Zhang, Jacobs, and Keeney

Eric Belasco, Montana State University Can a Chinese Mega-Retailer Make a Killing off Montana Beef? By: Civil Eats - January 23, 2018 Elsewhere, large meat processing plants are staffed mostly by migrant laborers and Eric Belasco, an agricultural economist at Montana State University and one of the authors of the slaughterhouse feasibility study, thinks this plant probably would, too. In other words, the overall impact on the state’s unemployment rate—which is slightly lower than the national average at 4 percent—would probably be fairly small. (Continued...) Read more on: Civil Eats Joe Outlaw, Texas A&M University Patrick Westhoff, University of Missouri Farm bill focus: Limited funds, many demands By: AgWeek- February 26, 2018 "There's not enough money to do everything," said Joe Outlaw, co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center, and professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. "Constituents are up here (Capitol Hill) on every day of every week that want something, and nobody ever comes up and asks for less." (Continued...) Read more on: AgWeek Alejandro Plastina, Iowa State University Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University Think through possible planter trade By: Wallace's Farmer - February 5, 2018 Each month in Wallaces Farmer, the Timely Tips panel answers questions sent by readers. Members of the panel are Alejandro Plastina and Wendong Zhang, Extension economists, Iowa State University; Leslie Miller, Iowa State Savings Bank, Knoxville; and Rob Stout, Master Farmer, Washington, Iowa. (Continued...) Read more on: Wallace's Farmer Keri Jacobs, Iowa State University Efforts to fix Section 199A continue By: Feedstuffs - February 12, 2018 Read more on: Feedstuffs Roman Keeney, Purdue University Agriculture’s time in the spotlight: Focusing on the 2018 farm bill Written by Roman Keeney: The Hill - February 28, 2018 As U.S. net farm income continues its decline to lows not seen in a decade, agriculture is using this spring to ready for its turn in the political spotlight. The 2014 farm bill, which supports farm incomes and agricultural risk management (among other things), is set to expire at the close of fiscal 2018 this September. (Continued...) Read more on: The Hill

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