Joseph Glauber, IFPRI
Ani Katchova, The Ohio State University
Eric Belasco, Montana State University Vincent Smith, Montana State University Robert Dinterman, The Ohio State University Carrie Litkowski, Economic Research Service, USDA Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
With Trump’s farm bailout came surprising profits, but little help for the neediest
By: The Washington Post & West Central Tribune - December 30, 2019
In 2019, the farm belt felt about as
hospitable as the asteroid belt. Record rainfall turned fields to sludge
and made it nigh on impossible to plant corn and soybeans until long
after the typical window had passed. President Trump’s long-running
trade war cut off farmers’ access to China’s enormous market. Across the
farm sector, commodity prices remained in the doldrums.
William Masters, Tufts University
Barry Popkin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Malnutrition Hits The Obese As Well As The Underfed
By: NPR - December 23, 2019
To address obesity and poor nutrition,
we can't rely on people to use willpower to make healthier choices,
says Will Masters, professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition and
Science Policy at Tufts University. Instead, he argues that government
regulations and taxes can play a key role in shifting what we eat and
drink.
"The poorest low- and middle-income
countries are seeing a rapid transformation in the way people eat, drink
and move at work, home, in transport and in leisure," says report
author Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. "The new nutrition reality is driven by changes
to the food system, which have increased availability of ultra-processed
foods that are linked to increased weight gain."
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Read more on: NPR
Tyler Mark, University of Kentucky
Paul Mitchell, University of Wisconsin Dawn Thilmany McFadden, Colorado State University
Hemp's growing pains continue
By: Agri-View - December 26, 2019
Tyler Mark, an assistant professor at
the University of Kentucky, said there were various reasons why the
total acres harvested fell well short of the acres licensed. Growers may
not have had contracts, their contracts failed before completion, or
they were unable to secure seed or clones.
The threshold is an arbitrary level,
said Paul Mitchell, an agricultural economist and director of the Renk
Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Longer
term there may be a way of breeding hemp varieties to reduce
tetrahydrocannabinol levels.
Dawn Thilmany is a professor and
Colorado State University-Extension economist in labor and agribusiness
management. She also will be speaking at the Wisconsin Agricultural
Outlook Forum. Because Colorado was the first state to legalize
recreational marijuana it has more infrastructure in place. Colorado
growers planted in 2018 about 90,000 acres of hemp.
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Read more on: Agri-View
Todd Hubbs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Trade, production uncertainty weighs on soybean market
By: AgriNews - December 27, 2019
“Thankfully, we had a 12 million
harvested soybean acres drop because we didn’t need it,” Todd Hubbs,
University of Illinois agricultural economist, said at the Dec. 18
Illinois Farm Economics Summit.
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Read more on: AgriNews
Joseph Glauber, IFPRI
Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sino-U.S. Trade Deal: Big Numbers, Few Details, Many Questions For Ag
By: Successful Farming & FERN - December 16, 2019
“[I]t will be very hard to get to the
$40 bil (let alone $50 bil) promised,” said Glauber in a series of
tweets. “Getting back to 2017 levels is not trivial after the past 2
years of poor exports. Hopefully there are improvements in GMO approvals
and other non-tariff issues which will improve future trade prospects.”
Economist Scott Irwin of the
University of Illinois said on social media that “wait and see is the
proper response at this point. Until there is something in writing from
the Chinese, I am not willing to assume much. But still, at least the
trend lines on Chinese ag imports should begin to at least trend
upward.”
Peter Goldsmith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Agriculture’s role in the ‘African century’
By: World Grain - December 31, 2019
A paper by Peter Goldsmith, Ph.D. in
the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University
of Illinois, notes soybean producers in sub-Saharan Africa yield about
one-third of those in leading soybean producing countries in the world.
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Read more on: World Grain
Carl Zulauf, The Ohio State University
Farm Subsidies Favor South, Irking Other Regions
By: PEW & Reading Eagle - December 31, 2019
It’s unclear to what extent the
programs interacted and whether the USDA considered the potential for
overlapping payments, said Carl Zulauf, professor emeritus in the
department of agricultural, environmental and development economics at
the Ohio State University in Columbus.
David Laborde, IFPRI
Addressing the nexus of food security, trade tensions and developing economies, where are we now?
By: Enhanced Integrated Framework - December 17, 2019
In order to understand the dilemma
around food security, we have to think on the one hand that it’s about
people’s income and on the other hand it’s how international markets and
food prices evolve. The trade tensions are going to have an impact on
both aspects, including for people in developing economies.
Hope Michelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
As the planet warms, unusual crops could become climate saviors — but only if we’re willing to eat them
By: Ensia - December 20, 2019
Surveys show the potential for drought
tops people’s climate concerns worldwide, but when it comes to growing
crops, says Hope Michelson, an assistant professor of agriculture and consumer economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “it’s not just the amount of rain” that matters.
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Read more on: Ensia
Timothy Woods, University of Kentucky
Kentucky Agricultural Receipts Hold Steady, Equine Ranks Second
By: The Horse - December 28, 2019
"Kentucky is a unique state for
marketing specialty crops, in that we have a larger portion of total
sales coming from direct-to-consumer purchases rather than from the
wholesale markets like larger producing states,” said Tim Woods, PhD, UK
agricultural economist. “So when the national economy is relatively
strong and people have more disposable income and consumer spending is
higher, direct-to-consumer markets tend to do better.”
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Read more on: The Horse
Eric Belasco, Montana State University
Vincent Smith, Montana State University Robert Dinterman, The Ohio State University Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ani Katchova, The Ohio State University
Washington farmers, hurt by tariffs, are helped by federal bailout
By: The Seattle Times - December 30, 2019
Federal funding has helped lift the
fortunes of many farmers in Washington state and across the nation who
have been hit hard by President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade wars.
About 8,200 Washington state
agricultural producers have received $114 million in aid so far this
year under a special federal program, a 54 percent increase from the
amount disbursed in all of last year, said Dwaine Schettler, a program
specialist at the state’s U.S. Farm Service Agency in Spokane.
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Read more on: The Seattle Times
Trey Malone, Michigan State University
Michigan farmers hope 2020 will be a better year
By: Michigan Radio - December 26, 2019
Trey Malone is an assistant professor
and extension economist at Michigan State University. He says 2020
should see progress on key trade deals for Michigan farmers. But Malone
is still cautious.
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Read more on: Michigan Radio
Keith Coble, Mississippi State University
State's largest industry, agriculture, reaches $7.4B
By: Daily Journal - December 21, 2019
“Government payments such as Market
Facilitation Program payments are meant to mitigate farmer income losses
due to the trade war with China,” Coble said. “The 2019 program is
based on national commodity price changes estimated to reflect market
losses and the county aggregate crop mix in 2019. Cotton and soybeans
had the largest relative losses for 2019.
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Read more on: Daily Journal
Edward Rister, Texas A&M University
Our Neighbors: Aggie program sets food donation record
By: The Eagle - December 29, 2019
For the past five years, Ed Rister, a
professor and associate department head in the department of
agricultural economics, has encouraged students in his classes to donate
food, paper goods and toiletries. He challenges his students each year
to exceed the prior year’s donations. This year, the donated goods
weighed 2,137 pounds.
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Read more on: The Eagle
Jeffrey Dorfman, University of Georgia
Adam Rabinowitz, University of Georgia
Georgia ag forecast set for five locations
By: Albany Herald - December 31, 2019
Jeffrey Dorfman, the state fiscal
economist for Georgia and a professor at the University of Georgia
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will serve as the
keynote speaker for four of the five locations during the 2020 Georgia
Ag Forecast seminar series set for Jan. 21-31.
Adam Rabinowitz, an agricultural
economist in the CAES Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics,
also will be a guest speaker. While predicting markets and providing an
accurate account of the future is not an exact science, Rabinowitz said
he and other economists will provide information that will position
stakeholders statewide to make the best possible decisions.
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Read more on: Albany Herald
Claudia Schmidt, Pennsylvania State University
UT professor argues craft beer industry is re-surging local hop production
By: The Blade - December 26, 2019
Claudia Schmidt, assistant professor
of agricultural economics in Penn State’s College of Agricultural
Sciences, also authored the paper. She said in a news release that the
paper was “the first to systematically show that the number of hop farms
in a state is related to the number of craft breweries.”
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Read more on: The Blade
Claudia Schmidt, Pennsylvania State University
Elizabeth Dobis, Pennsylvania State University
More states grow hops as craft beer popularity booms
By: Futurity - January 2, 2020
Now, 29 states are involved with hop
production, Schmidt says, citing a report from the Hop Growers of
America. “Our study is the first to systematically show that the number
of hop farms in a state is related to the number of craft breweries,”
she says. “It suggests that in areas where hop production is possible
and not cost-prohibitive, breweries are expanding markets for farmers
and providing an opportunity to diversify farm income.”
“This growth has not only led to
interesting changes in the locations of hop farms across the US, but it
has positioned the US as the largest producer of hops globally, both in
terms of acreage and production,” says lead author Elizabeth Dobis, a
postdoctoral scholar at the Penn State-based Northeast Regional Center
for Rural Development.
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Read more on: Futurity
Paul D. Mitchell, University of Wisconsin
Extension State Specialist in Cropping Systems and Environmental Management
By: Waushara Argus - December 24, 2019
Many of you may have seen the notices
that signup has begun for Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss
Coverage (PLC). This time around, farmers and landowners need to make
their ARC/PLC choice only for the 2019 and 2020 crop years.
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Read more on: Waushara Argus
Nathan DeLay, Purdue University
John Hewlett, University of Wyoming Todd Kuethe, Purdue University Michael Langemeier, Purdue University James Mintert, Purdue University Jay Parsons, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nathanael Thompson, Purdue University
Top Farmer Conference addresses risk, farm planning
By: Kenosha News - December 21, 2019
The 2020 Purdue Top Farmer Conference
will feature several of the nation's leading experts in the areas of
marketing, risk management, climate and crop production. The speakers
will make presentations to help farmers overcome obstacles, mitigate
risk and plan for the future.
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