Members in the News: Gundersen, Zhang, Wang, Griffin, Lopez, Deller, Mitchell, Hubbs, Bigelow, Adjemian, and Jansen

Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Food stamp change would hurt kids, educators and advocates testify By: NBC News - February 6, 2020 Craig Gundersen, an agricultural and consumer economics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who has studied the program for more than two decades, said the rule would only make food insecurity worse in the United States. (Continued...) Read more on: NBC News Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University Democrats Claim the Economy Needs Work. Here's a Breakdown of the Early Primary States By: BloombergQuint & Yahoo Finance - January 31, 2020 As the coronavirus epidemic grows, China prepares to cut tariff By: Marketplace - February 6, 2020 Caucus d'Iowa, un estat agrícola castigat per la guerra comercial EUA-Xina By: Catalunya Radio - February 2, 2020 Haoying Wang, New Mexico Tech Study: Eddy County leads New Mexico oil and gas industry, Permian to last for decades By: MSN, Carlsbad Current Argus, & New Mexico Oil And Gas Association - January 29, 2020 Between 2012 and 2018 – a period that saw the industry boom, bust in 2015 and boom again in 2017 – the oil and gas industry in Eddy County added $6.4 billion to state and local governments in New Mexico, per a study from the Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University. (Continued...) Read more on: MSN, Carlsbad Current Argus, & New Mexico Oil And Gas Association Terry Griffin, Kansas State University Precision ag helps farmers find their best acres By: The Western Producer - February 30, 2020 Study: Farm size not always gauge of profit By: Journal Gazette/Times-Courier - February 1, 2020 Rigoberto Lopez, University of Connecticut Green industry contributed over $4.7 billion to the state in 2017, says the Connecticut Nursery and Landscape Association By: Hartford Courant - February 6, 2020 The association’s study was conducted by UConn’s Chris Laughton in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Dr. Rigoberto A. Lopez, a professor of Agricultural Economics. It was funded by grant from Farm Credit East, a financial company that provides credit and loans to those in the agricultural industries. (Continued...) Read more on: Hartford Courant Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin Paul Mitchell, University of Wisconsin Food processing, entrepreneurship opportunities predicted in 2020 By: The Country Today - February 3, 2020 Every five years, Steven Deller, a professor of Agricultural and Applied Sciences at UW-Madison, studies the importance of agriculture to Wisconsin’s economy. He recently released his findings, titled “The Contribution of Agriculture to the Wisconsin Economy,” and shared some of the highlights with forum attendees. “I expect 2019 will exceed $289 million in crop insurance payments to become the third highest ever,” said Paul Mitchell, an economics professor and director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute. (Continued...) Read more on: The Country Today Todd Hubbs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Illinois soybean farmers hurt by coronavirus hit to Chinese economy By: SaukValley.com - February 3, 2020 “This kind of big shock to their economy diminishes their demand for a lot of primary products” such as soybeans, said Todd Hubbs, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Continued...) Read more on: SaukValley.com Daniel Bigelow, Montana State University Water News: Professor studies groundwater, land use economics By: Belgrade News - February 6, 2020 Assistant professor Daniel Bigelow joined MSU’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics in the colleges of Agriculture and Letters and Sciences last summer. Bigelow partnered with a team from California State University – Chico, Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the recent project, delving into groundwater management, which he said is a particularly thorny challenge. (Continued...) Read more on: Belgrade News Michael Adjemian, University of Georgia UGA’s annual economic impact grows, hits $6.5 Billion By: AllOnGeorgia - February 4, 2020 Michael Adjemian, an associate professor of applied and agricultural economics who worked on the study, says the $6.5 billion figure is a conservative estimate of the university’s economic impact and that it measures only impacts that exist due to the university’s operations. (Continued...) Read more on: AllOnGeorgia Jim Jansen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Quarterly webinar series addresses Nebraska land management issues By: KTIC Radio - February 4, 2020 “Land is one of Nebraska’s most critical assets,” said Jansen. “This webinar series will help those with a vested interest in land to better understand the financial and human forces reshaping the rural agricultural landscape." (Continued...) Read more on: KTIC Radio See other Member in the News items Know another AAEA Member who has made statewide, national, or international news? Send a link of the article to Jessica Weister at jweister@aaea.org. What research and topics are you working on? Want to be an expert source for journalists working on a story? Contact Allison Scheetz at ascheetz@aaea.org.