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Jayson Lusk, Purdue University Millions Of Pigs Will Be Euthanized As Pandemic Cripples Meatpacking Plants By: NPR - May 14, 2020 New Purdue/Microsoft collaboration calculates ag product supply risk due to COVID-19 worker illnesses By: Fruit Growers News & Agrinews  - May 22, 2020 Purdue University Is Tracking COVID-19’s Impact on Farming County By County By: Food & Wine - May 22, 2020 Covid-19 Makes the Case for More Meatpacking Robots By: Wired - May 25, 2020 Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Food Banks Get The Love, But SNAP Does More To Fight Hunger By: NPR - April 13, 2020 Food banks themselves, in fact, are among SNAP's biggest fans. "Those of us in the anti-hunger community, we truly believe that SNAP is far and away the most important component of our social safety net against hunger in our country," says Craig Gundersen, an economist at the University of Illinois who also works with Feeding America. (Continued...) Read more on: NPR Joseph Glauber, IFPRI Trade restrictions are the wrong way to address food supply issues in the COVID-19 crisis By: The Hill - May 8, 2020 China Trade Advisers Talk of Renegotiating U.S. Trade Pact - Report By: Successful Farming - May 12, 2020 Trade concerns for the rest of 2020 include COVID-19, China By: Agromeat - May 11, 2020 Xi He, Iowa State University Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University China Buys More; Will It Be Enough For Phase One? By: Successful Farming - May 27, 2020 “We predict China will import $18.60 billion in agricultural products from the United States in 2020, far behind the Phase One target of $36.5 billion,” wrote economists Xi He, Dermot Hayes and Wendong Zhang in a policy brief from the CARD think tank at Iowa State University. (Continued...) Read more on: Successful Farming Anjani Kumar, IFPRI Centre's financial package through DBT attracts criticism By: Dailyhunt & Down To Earth - May 12, 2020 There are, however, no current efforts to bring lists of different beneficiaries together. The government should not fear duplication or ineligible individuals getting relief, said Anjani Kumar, Research Fellow at research centre International Food Policy Research Institute. (Continued...) Read more on: Dailyhunt & Down To Earth Alejandro Plastina, Iowa State University Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University How to buy farmland amid uncertainty By: Wallaces Farmer - May 27, 2020 Plastina: Selling something you do not have on hand can generate anxiety. However, a good strategy can be used to reduce if not completely eliminate such anxiety. It requires good yield records, realistic price expectations, a solid understanding of your cost of production and determination. Zhang: The pandemic is likely to overshadow the U.S. and global economy over the next couple months, if not longer. My colleagues at ISU CARD recently released a report, projecting that significant damages for the hog and ethanol industries. (Continued...) Read more on: Wallaces Farmer Johan Swinnen, IFPRI Leveraging digital tools for adaptive food systems in India during the COVID-19 lockdown By: Science News - May 9, 2020 How The Corona Crisis is Causing Shock Waves Worldwide By: De Standaard - May 9, 2020 Global food shortage worsens due to pandemic By: Panamá América - May 7, 2020 Strengthening international cooperation in response to food crisis, "Chinese experience" is welcome By: China Development, East Money, China Economic Herald, & Sohu - May 21, 2020 Pandemic could trigger a food crisis By: 21st Century - May 14, 2020 Rob Vos, IFPRI Is one consequence of the corona a new spike in food prices? The last "quiet tsunami" took the bread from the poor and was also felt in the wallets of Finns By: Yle - May 16, 2020 How badly is Corona undermining world food security? By: Yle - May 16, 2020 John Crespi, Iowa State University Joshua Rosenbloom, Iowa State University Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University New Iowa State web hub lets users track COVID-19’s economic impacts in the US By: The Cattle Site - May 23, 2020 The webpage “COVID-19 Pandemic: Research and Resources” developed by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development and the Department of Economics at Iowa State University, examines the pandemic’s impacts on the economy, agriculture and business across local, regional and global economies. (Continued...) Read more on: The Cattle Site Stephen Koontz, Colorado State University Will restricting AMAs really save the cash market? By: Beef Magazine - May 28, 2020 Stephen Koontz, agricultural economics professor at Colorado State University, puts the bottom-line answers up front in a recent white paper that could be used as a foundation for industry policy decisions. Koontz’ white paper comes on the heels of his pre-publication document we reported on last week. (Continued...) Read more on: Beef Magazine Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology States with the Fewest Coronavirus Restrictions By: WalletHub - May 19, 2020 The best way to open up is to use the available data and the knowledge of public health experts. Practically, this typically means: Having sufficient testing capacity. Being able to trace the contacts of infected people. Making sure that any spikes in new cases and/or hospitalizations can be dealt with without overwhelming current hospital capacity. (Continued...) Read more on: WalletHub Chad Hart, Iowa State University Jayson Lusk, Purdue University Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University US meat exports surge as industry struggles to meet demand By: Star Tribune - May 14, 2020 U.S. meat exports are surging even as the industry is struggling to meet domestic demand because of coronavirus outbreaks at processing plants that have sickened hundreds of workers and caused companies to scramble to improve conditions. (Continued...) Read more on: Star Tribune Nicolas Quintana Ashwell, Mississippi State University Survey of historic backwater flood documents individual losses By: The Vicksburg Post - May 21, 2020 “We found a $42,160 self-assessed loss per household in costs associated with the flood not covered by insurance or any assistance programs,” Quintana-Ashwell said. “Additionally, 69 percent of workers reported a reduction in work productivity due to stress and fatigue associated with the flood.” (Continued...) Read more on: The Vicksburg Post Anton Bekkerman, Montana State University Coronavirus disruption creates opportunity for local ag By: The Hour - May 24, 2020 “That created this bottleneck instead of the cylinder, and you have kind of an hour-glass shape,” Bekkerman said. “You still have the same number of producers at the very top and you still have the same number of consumers at the very bottom. But that middle part is not cylindrical and it is squeezed together.” (Continued...) Read more on: The Hour Amy Hagerman, Oklahoma State University Courtney Bir, Oklahoma State University OSU survey targets best ways toward economic recovery for Oklahoma By: The Claremore Daily Progress - May 27, 2020 By the end of May, more than 700 people had responded to the survey distributed by Extension county educators and cooperating partners around the state, said Amy Hagerman, OSU Extension agricultural and food policy specialist. The ongoing survey is short, with most people being able to complete it in about five minutes. For more information about survey participation, contact OSU’s Courtney Bir by email at courtney.bir@okstate.edu or Scott Hall by email at irb@okstate.edu or by phone at 405-744-3377. (Continued...) Read more on: The Claremore Daily Progress

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