Members in the News: Funk, Boehm, Ferrier, Barnaby, and Anderson

Sam Funk, Iowa Farm Bureau Massive Gamble on Soy Hoarding Pays Off for America’s Farmers By: Bloomberg - July 12, 2019 “It’s great for those who had that opportunity” to sell on rallies, said Sam Funk, director of agriculture analytics and research for the Iowa Farm Bureau. “For the entire system to be able to find those profitable marketing opportunities, it’s going to take a reopening of those markets.” (Continued...) Read more on: Bloomberg Rebecca Boehm, Union of Concerned Scientist Peyton Ferrier, USDA-Economic Research Service Honeybees hit by Trump budget cuts By: CNN Politics - July 6, 2019 "This is yet another example of the Trump administration systematically undermining federal research on food safety, farm productivity, and the public interest writ large," said Rebecca Boehm, an economist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "We're concerned about whether honeybee colony losses are still high and whether we're making any progress in bringing them down," said Peyton Ferrier, an economist at USDA who conducts research on how honeybee health affects the agriculture industry. (Continued...) Read more on: CNN Politics Art Barnaby, Kansas State University Use Crop Insurance? Thank Art Barnaby By: Successful Farming - July 8, 2019 Crop insurance is popular, partly because private companies sell it. It works because farmers can buy revenue insurance with a harvest price tied closely to a crop’s real value. We might not have this valuable resource without the work of Kansas State University (KSU) ag economist Art Barnaby. He helped create the first version of revenue insurance, Market Value Protection, offered in 1991. Barnaby retired from KSU on January 31. (Continued...) Read more on: Successful Farming David Anderson, Texas A&M University Briskets are Hot - Beef Brisket Values Skyrocket as Popularity Grows By: Progressive Farmer - July 8, 2019 David Anderson, agricultural economics professor and AgriLife Extension economist at Texas A&M University, said he and others anticipate a record amount of total meat production in the U.S. in 2019, according to a news release from the university. But items like beef briskets, bacon, chicken wings and hamburgers have shown particular strength in recent years. "For the particular cuts of briskets, demand is really skyrocketing," Anderson said. "We are seeing an increase in prices because of that demand, even though supply is growing." According to Anderson, the comprehensive cutout brisket value was $213.47 per hundredweight as of the end of May--up 19.4% from the same week in 2018. (Continued...) Read more on: Progressive Farmer

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