Members in the News: Jaenicke, Glauber, Hubbs, Griffin, Munisamy, Sumner, Smith, Taheripour, Chenarides, Walters, Swinnen, Outlaw, Jansen, Johansson, and Coble

Edward Jaenicke, Pennsylvania State University US households are wasting a huge amount of food By: The Hill - January 24, 2020 Americans Toss Out Nearly a Third of Food at Home By: HealthDay - January 28, 2020 Joseph Glauber, IFPRI Joseph Glauber discusses how Chinese tariffs have impacted U.S. agricultural exports By: CGTN - January 23, 2020 China wants soybeans, but prices haven't risen. So how does a farmer plan? By: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - January 23, 2020 China’s trade war deal ‘may be doomed from start’ as scepticism mounts over capacity to buy US products By: South China Morning Post Todd Hubbs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2020 Outlook: Trade, production uncertainty weighs on soybean market By: Agrinews - January 28, 2020 “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. (Continued...) Read more on: Agrinews Terry Griffin, Kansas State University Precision ag opportunities abound on farm and in industry By: Agweek - January 28, 2020 Consider benefits, costs when adopting precision ag tech By: The Jamestown Sun - January 25, 2020 Gopinath Munisamy, University of Georgia Phase One of US-China Trade Deal By: 11Alive-Atlanta - January 27, 2020 "Nationally, they have been talking about the soybean story. But many commodities that we grow in Georgia have been significantly affected by the trade war. I'll give you an example, cotton. China has been scaling back cotton purchase since 2014 for a variety of reasons, not just the trade war," said Gopinath Munisamy. (Continued...) Read more on: 11Alive-Atlanta Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis Joseph Glauber, IFPRI Vincent Smith, Montana State University Philadelphia ‘city slickers’ have received millions in federal farm subsidies over 25 years By: The Philadelphia Inquirer - January 26, 2020 They don’t milk cows or plant corn, but nearly 900 Philadelphians have collected federal farm subsidies totaling $3.2 million in the last 25 years. Residents with addresses ranging from Center City to Chestnut Hill receive annual checks, often based on nothing more than their family connections to farms in states far afield from Pennsylvania, according to an Inquirer analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture data obtained by two organizations: Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington, D.C., nonprofit and advocacy group, and American Transparency, an Illinois public charity. (Continued...) Read more on: The Philadelphia Inquirer Farzad Taheripour, Purdue University Purdue Researchers Find US Biofuels Responsible for Fraction of Deforestation By: Progressive Farmer - January 27, 2020 Farzad Taheripour, a research associate professor of agricultural economics, and the late Wallace Tyner, who was the James and Lois Ackerman Chair in Purdue's Department of Agricultural Economics, published their results in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels. (Continued...) Read more on: Progressive Farmer Lauren Chenarides, Arizona State University Dollar Stores: Friend or Foe? By: Arizona Food Industry Journal - January 20, 2020 "During the summer of 2015, I was traveling with my family to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Our destination was the Cap Hatteras KOA, which sits on a thin strip of land, miles off the shores of North Carolina, nestled between two sleepy beach towns - Rodanthe and Waves. We arrived late in the afternoon when we realized we needed to take a trip to the grocery store." (Continued...) Read more on: Arizona Food Industry Journal Cory Walters, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Farm survival using insurance and marketing By: Star-Herald - January 27, 2020 “Decision making is about farm survival viewed through the lens of the decision maker,” said seminar presenter, Cory Walters, UNL Agriculture Economics Department, Lincoln. Insurance and good marketing strategies must be part of a farmer’s decision making, Walters expressed. (Continued...) Read more on: Star-Herald Johan Swinnen, University of Leuven Global Forum for Food and Agriculture beendet By: PressePortal, FinanzNachrichten, Ad Hoc, BankKaufman, & Nachriten-Heute.net - January 19, 2020 IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen who attended the forum stated that African countries are getting better at meeting EU standards. (Continued...) Read more on: PressePortal, FinanzNachrichten, Ad Hoc, BankKaufman, & Nachriten-Heute.net Joe Outlaw, Texas A&M University Not much change in crop prices going into 2020 By: Hometown Stations - January 24, 2020 “I tell everyone that we are in “No Man’s Land” with prices. Not good enough to make much money, but not good enough to trigger a lot of payments, so we are in the middle,” says Dr. Joe Outlaw, Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M. “The future looks like we are going to be flat, so people need to understand when they get marketing opportunities, grab them.” (Continued...) Read more on: Hometown Stations Jim Jansen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Webinar Series Addresses Land Management Issues By: KTIC Radio - January 27, 2020 The webinars are led by Jim Jansen and Allan Vyhnalek, who are both in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Jansen focuses on agricultural finance and land economics, as well as the direction of the annual Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey and Report. (Continued...) Read more on: KTIC Radio Robert Johansson, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist State’s ag exports expected to increase this year By: WGAU Radio - January 28, 2020 Robert Johansson serves as Chief Economist at the Department of Agriculture (USDA). As Chief Economist, he is responsible for the Department's agricultural forecasts and projections and for advising the Secretary of Agriculture on economic implications of alternative programs, regulations, and legislative proposals. (Continued...) Read more on: WGAU Radio Keith Coble, Mississippi State University Iowa State survey shows farm owners make small increases in conservation By: Red Hills MS News - January 2020 Keith Coble, professor and head of MSU’s Department of Agricultural Economics, is a selection for the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Lifetime Achievement award. According to its website, the mission of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, or SAEA, is to foster the study and understanding of agricultural economics and its applications to address problems in the southern U.S. (Continued...) Read more on: Red Hills MS News

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