Terry Griffin, Kansas State University
Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor
By: Bloomberg - March 5, 2020
Many growers regard their methods as
trade secrets that give them an advantage over competitors when vying
for terms with creditors and landlords. “If data gets out, negotiating
powers are weakened,” says Terry Griffin, an agricultural economist at
Kansas State University. “Farmers’ fears are very real. It’s not
paranoia.”
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Read more on: Bloomberg
Read more on: Bloomberg
Roger Johnson, North Dakota State University
Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University
John Beghin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University
John Beghin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Red farm states end up in the black with tariff payments
By: Successful Farming - March 3, 2020
A handful of farm states, mostly in
the Midwest and the Plains, emerge as net winners when the impact of
retaliatory Chinese tariffs are weighed against the Trump
administration’s trade war payments to farmers, say three university
economists.
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Read more on: Successful Farming
Read more on: Successful Farming
Jayson Lusk, Purdue University
A passion for Purdue agricultural programs: University mourns loss of D. Howard Doster
By: AgriNews - March 5, 2020
“The Farm Management Tour is every
summer. There have been more than 80 of them, and Howard had been to
more than 50,” Lusk said, adding how remarkable Doster’s commitment was
to Purdue’s College of Agriculture.
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Read more on: AgriNews
Read more on: AgriNews
Edward Jaenicke, The Pennsylvania State University
Yang Yu, The Pennsylvania State University
Yang Yu, The Pennsylvania State University
Study suggests 30% food waste in US
By: Farm and Dairy - March 5, 2020
This inefficiency in the food economy
has implications for health, food security, food marketing and climate
change, noted Edward Jaenicke, professor of agricultural economics in
the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State.
In this approach, Jaenicke and Yang
Yu, doctoral candidate in agricultural, environmental and regional
economics, analyzed data primarily from 4,000 households who
participated in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Household
Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey, known as FoodAPS.
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Read more on: Farm and Dairy
Gordon Rausser, University of California, Berkeley
U. of California at Berkeley Receives Two Gifts Totaling $302 Million
By: The Chronicle of Philanthropy - March 2, 2020
In addition, the university has
received $50 million from Gordon Rausser, the former dean of the College
of Natural Resources. The college will be renamed for him. His gift
will endow a chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource
Economics and create an endowed fund to enhance the curriculum, student
support, and field education abroad for the master of development
practice program.
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Read more on: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Read more on: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Sam Henty, University of Melbourne
Risk analysis useful in determining investment in subsoil manuring
By: Grains Research & Development Corporation - December 20, 2019
"While addressing subsoil constraints
is likely to increase grain yield, the key economic question for a
grower is whether the income from extra grain produced covers the extra
costs of ameliorating the subsoil," University of Melbourne master's
student Sam Henty says.
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Read more on: Grains Research & Development Corporation
Read more on: Grains Research & Development Corporation
Tyler Mark, University of Kentucky
Commercial growing of hemp around the corner in Florida
By: The Ledger - February 29, 2020
"Don't spend any more money than you
are willing to lose," Tyler Mark, an agricultural economist at the
University of Kentucky, told more than 50 Florida agriculture leaders
and academics on Thursday at the Florida Agriculture Policy Outlook
Conference 2020.
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Read more on: The Ledger
Read more on: The Ledger
Trey Malone, Michigan State University
Tracy Boyer, University of Wisconsin
Tracy Boyer, University of Wisconsin
From Farm To Pint, How Will Beer Weather Climate Change?
By: Wisconsin Public Radio - March 2, 2020
In an industry that already faces
heavy federal regulations to make it from the farm to the pint, the
possibility of even more regulations will hit small brewers the hardest,
said Trey Malone, an assistant professor in the Department of
Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at Michigan State University.
"Where water may become more expensive
because of scarcity, to large manufacturers, you could see them
switching to produce more of that beer somewhere else, like Wisconsin,"
said Tracy Boyer, of UW-Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences.
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Read more on: Wisconsin Public Radio
Read more on: Wisconsin Public Radio
Roger Johnson, North Dakota State University
Neil Harl, Dennis Sjodin awarded Farmers Union’s highest honor
By: Aberdeen News & News Dakota - March 1, 2020
“Both Dr. Harl and Dennis Sjodin spent
their careers and lives bettering life for American farm and ranch
families and their communities,” said NFU President Roger Johnson. “It
is important to celebrate champions for family farmers and rural
communities and to honor these men in particular for their service. I am
proud to recognize their contributions with our organization’s highest
honor, the Meritorious Service Award.”
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