Members in the News: Glauber, Fan, Batabyal, Smith, Barrett, Mercier, Lentz, Jacobs, Griffin, Hayes, and Plastina

*Joseph Glauber, International Food Policy Research Institute Fears ripple through the US heartland that agriculture could take hit from China trade retaliation By: CNBC - March 15, 2018 "Soybeans is certainly an area where we do a lot of business with China, and I think they have certainly indicated that they are investigating looking into soybeans as a potential retaliation,'" said Joseph Glauber, a former USDA chief economist and now a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington. (Continued...) Read more on: CNBC Shenggen Fan, International Food Policy Research Institute The multibillion dollar question: How much will it cost to end hunger and undernutrition? Written by Shenggen Fan: Thomson Reuters Foundation News - March 14, 2018 World leaders have committed to ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet we are not on track to achieve the goal—in fact hunger, measured as caloric deficiency, rose in 2016 after more than a decade of impressive progress. More than 150 million children are stunted. More investments are needed to end hunger—but how much will it cost? (Continued...) Read more on: Thomson Reuters Foundation News Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology What is a tariff? An economist explains By: The Conversation - March 15, 2018 President Donald Trump recently slapped tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on foreign aluminum, prompting significant concern and discussion about the wisdom of this action. As an economist who shares some of those concerns, I believe it’s important to first understand what a tariff actually is and does before we can determine whether Trump’s new trade barriers are good or bad. (Continued...) Read more on: The Conversation Vincent H. Smith, Montana State University Christopher Barrett, Cornell University Stephanie Mercier, Farm Journal Foundation Erin Lentz, University of Texas The Food for Peace Modernization Act: Legislation to make the world a better place Written by Vincent H. Smith, Christopher Barrett, Stephanie Mercier, Erin Lentz, Ryan Nabil: American Enterprise Institute - March 2, 2018 Earlier this month, the chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committee, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, and Rep. Ed Royce, R-California, introduced identical versions of the Food for Peace Modernization Act in the Senate and the House, along with co-sponsors Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Washington. (Continued...) Read more on: American Enterprise Institute Keri Jacobs, Iowa State University Co-op Tax Benefit to be Fixed This Month, Lawmaker Says By: Successful Farming - March 9, 2018 “Cooperatives in both states use ground piles to manage harvest gluts, and if this law sticks, that challenge may be exacerbated in the short term,” Jacobs said. “But cooperatives and producers would respond to the economic incentives to invest in grain storage in that case. Condominium grain storage is another option for producers to mitigate storage constraints.” Read more on: Successful Farming Terry Griffin, Kansas State University Big Ag Wants Farmers to Buy Into Satellite Imagery By: Wired - March 20, 2018 Some farmers, sensibly, have been unsure about giving too much about their crops away to Big Ag. "I have huge concern when it comes to privacy and sensors on the ground," says Terry Griffin, a professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State. The agri-data market could, say, use that information to market products to farmers or sell seeds at differential rates. (Continued...) Read more on: Wired Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University Iowa could support 45,700 livestock confinements, but should it? By: Des Moines Register - March 8, 2018 This year, U.S. hog production is forecast to grow 4 percent, but expansion in Iowa is likely to be even stronger, said Dermot Hayes, an Iowa State University economics professor. (Continued...) Read more on: Des Moines Register Alejandro Plastina, Iowa State University By: Bloomberg News, Chicago - March 13, 2018 Alejandro Plastina, Iowa State University interviewed by Megan Durisin, Bloomberg News, Chicago, on March 13, 2018, about the results of his project on the economics of cover crops. (No link available at this time)

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