Monday, August 10, 2020

Members in the News: Meyer, Batabyal, Mintert, Bozic, Norton, Alwang, Escalante, Luo, Featherstone, Deller, MacDonald, Llewelyn, Coffey… et al.

Seth Meyer, University of Missouri

After Record Corn Sale to China, Perdue Expects 'A Big Shipping Season This Fall'

By: Successful Farming - July 31, 2020

“The product has to make it there in the calendar year,” said Meyer. “While these are good-size corn purchases by the Chinese, we don’t know when they will go (or) if this is a political move to get phase one products ‘on the books’ even if not shipped.”

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Read more on: Successful Farming


Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology

International trade has cost Americans millions of jobs. Investing in communities might offset those losses

By: The Conversation - August 3, 2020

Arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity, said former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. Globalization, the international trade in goods and services with minimal barriers between countries, may seem inevitable as the world’s economies become more interdependent.

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Read more on: The Conversation


James Mintert, Purdue University


Marin Bozic, University of Minnesota

Interview with Marin Bozic about the dairy market

By: AgriTalk - August 4, 2020

"Ten years ago when we had a global financial crisis and the government was buying dairy products in bulk dairy commodities and supporting dairy markets in that way. We’ve learned the lesson in the crisis before and even still. We have learned a lesson that if you buy bulk commodities, the market will stay low for an extend period of time. We were determined to not repeat that experience this time, that’s why instead of buying a lot of powder—storable dairy commodities, the government intervened through food box purchases," said Marin Bozic.

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Read more on: AgriTalk


George Norton, Virginia Tech
Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Tech

Integrated pest management practices bring more than $12 billion to the developing world

By: Augusta Free Press - August 1, 2020

That’s according to findings of a review published recently by Virginia Tech researchers George Norton, Muni Muniappan, and Jeff Alwang and researcher Menale Kassie from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Kenya. Together they document more than $12 billion in economic benefits as a result of integrated pest management application, which more than pays for all the funds spent globally on IPM.

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Read more on: Augusta Free Press


Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia
Tianyuan Luo, University of Florida

'Show me your papers': A decade after SB 1070

By: Arizona Public Media - July 30, 2020

Escalante co-authored a paper on the topic with University of Florida researcher Tianyuan Luo.

Escalante said their findings show how a measure meant to target one type of immigration ended up affecting a much larger group. The provision's ballooning impact shaped a generation of Arizona Latinos.

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Read more on: Arizona Public Media


Allen Featherstone, Kansas State University 

Broad view of food production and potential

By: Dodge City Daily Globe & Morning Ag Clips  - July 28 & August 4, 2020

As a professor of agricultural economics, Allen Featherstone knows his way around classrooms and meeting venues. After all, he’s been teaching and conducting research for about 35 years. But the new coronavirus pandemic put a temporary hold on in-person classes and conferences and prompted quick adjustments in how he and his Kansas State University colleagues present information and research findings.

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Read more on: Dodge City Daily Globe & Morning Ag Clips


Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin

Wisconsin's smallest businesses faced biggest hurdles to get COVID-19 loans, experts say

By: Wisconsin State Journal - July 26, 2020

UW-Extension’s Steven Deller said the larger businesses and those with connections — either through previous enterprises or through seasoned investors — could more easily get private loans, if they were needed. Small businesses, which he defined as only having about a dozen employees, wouldn’t have as easy a time.

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Read more on: Wisconsin State Journal


James MacDonald, USDA-Economic Research Service

Farm Consilidation: Successes and Failures of Earlier Modeling

By: Daily Times Leader - July 28, 2020

MacDonald says, "The finding that consolidation has been widespread across commodities and persistent over time implies that farm commodity programs cannot be a dominant driver of consolidation, since commodity programs focus on field crops, and not on specialty crops or livestock. Yet the pace of consolidation has been quite similar in fruits, vegetables, field crops, and livestock. The widespread and persistent pace suggests that technology plays and important role in consolidation. In particular, the introduction and diffusion of labor-saving equipment, materials, and organizational changes allow a single farmer or farm family to manage more acres or more animals.

The persistent trend in consolidation calls into question some earlier modeling that argued that consolidation resulted from the exit of farmers and farm labor in search of higher earnings outside of agriculture."

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Read more on: Daily Times Leader


Richard Llewelyn, Kansas State University
Brian Coffey, Kansas State University
Allen Featherstone, Kansas State University
Brian Briggeman, Kansas State University
Mykel Taylor, Kansas State University
Chelsea Arnold, Kansas State University
Jody Wendt, Kansas State University
Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University
Daniel O’Brien, Kansas State University
Jennifer Ifft, Kansas State University
Nathan Hendricks, Kansas State University

Conference will focus on effect of virus on ag economy

By: Hays Post & Great Bend Post - July 30 & 31, 2020

Agricultural producers in Kansas and other states this year can participate in Kansas State University’s Risk & Profit Conference from wherever they are as the university takes the entire conference online. The conference is set for Aug. 10-14. 

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Read more on: Hays Post & Great Bend Post


John Anderson, University of Arkansas


Scott Swinton, Michigan State University

Why Biomass Residue Is Not as Plentiful as It Looks: Case Study on Economic Supply of Logging Residues

By: Mammoth Times, Intern Daily, SeattlePI, Stamford Advocate, My San Antonio, SF Gate, Chron, Targeted News Service, AZ Central, Borger News-Herald, WICZ, Mammoth Times, Financial Content, Morning News, BioFlorida, Fox34, Fat Pitch Financials, Magic 106.5, Le Lezard, WBOC, Daily Times Leader, Decatur Daily Democrat, Business Insider, Fox 21 Delmarva, Sweetwater Reporter, The Punxsutawney Spirit, The Pilot News, ASK, The Kane Republican, The Observer News Enterprise, Finanzen.net, The Saline Courier, The Post and Mail, Wapakoneta Daily News, The Community Post, The Antlers American, Starkville Daily News, Winslow, Evans, & Crocker Inc., Chronicle Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Evening Leader, myMotherLode, NewsOK, The Ridgway Record, The Inyo Register, & Big Spring Herald - July 31, 2020

Swinton says, "We looked at logging residues, and we found that landowners are often unwilling to allow them to be removed. That alone cuts the potential supply in half. When you account for what is technically feasible and sustainably wise, that cuts the supply in half again. Finally, the costs of processing and transportation add to the price that suppliers would require to deliver logging residues to a demand point. Bottom line, the quantity of energy biomass that is economically available from logging residues is less than a quarter of the biophysical inventory."

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Read more on: Mammoth Times, Intern Daily, SeattlePI, Stamford Advocate, My San Antonio, SF Gate, Chron, Targeted News Service, AZ Central, Borger News-Herald, WICZ, Financial Content, Morning News, BioFlorida, Fox34, Fat Pitch Financials, Magic 106.5, Le Lezard, WBOC, Daily Times Leader, Decatur Daily Democrat, Business Insider, Fox 21 Delmarva, Sweetwater Reporter, The Punxsutawney Spirit, The Pilot News, ASK, The Kane Republican, The Observer News Enterprise, Finanzen.net, The Saline Courier, The Post and Mail, Wapakoneta Daily News, The Community Post, The Antlers American, Starkville Daily News, Winslow, Evans, & Crocker Inc., Chronicle Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Evening Leader, myMotherLode, NewsOK, The Ridgway Record, The Inyo Register, & Big Spring Herald


Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

Why food policy has evolved rapidly for the past three decades?

By: SeattlePI, Mammoth Times, Wapakoneta Daily News, The Post and Mail, myMotherLode, Morning News, Finanzen.net, The Kane Republican, The Pilot News, The Observer News Enterprise, The Ridgway Record, Decatur Daily Democrat, The Antlers American, The Evening Leader, Starkville Daily News, Fox 21 Delmarva, Big Spring Herald, Chronicle Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Community Post, Borger News-Herald, Business Insider, Fat Pitch Financials, The Saline Courier, The Punxsutawney Spirit, Winslow, Evans, & Crocker, Inc., Daily Times Leader, The Inyo Register, NewsOK, Sweetwater Reporter, The Buffalo News, WBOC, Seed Daily, WRCB TV, WICZ, One News Page, Le Lezard, BENZINGA, SeattlePI,  NewsBlaze, Stamford Advocate, & Wine Diva Lifestyle - August 5, 2020

The Agricultural & Applied Economics Assocaiton (AAEA) invites you to attend the 2020 AAEA Virtual Meeting. There are over 600 expert speakers presenting in more than 100 concurrent sessions. Media and press are invited to attend any concurrent session, or plenary session with a complimentary media registration.

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Read more on: SeattlePI, Mammoth Times, Wapakoneta Daily News, The Post and Mail, myMotherLode, Morning News, Finanzen.net, The Kane Republican, The Pilot News, The Observer News Enterprise, The Ridgway Record, Decatur Daily Democrat, The Antlers American, The Evening Leader, Starkville Daily News, Fox 21 Delmarva, Big Spring Herald, Chronicle Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Community Post, Borger News-Herald, Business Insider, Fat Pitch Financials, The Saline Courier, The Punxsutawney Spirit, Winslow, Evans, & Crocker, Inc., Daily Times Leader, The Inyo Register, NewsOK, Sweetwater Reporter, The Buffalo News, WBOC, Seed Daily, WRCB TV, WICZ, One News Page, Le Lezard, BENZINGANewsBlaze, Stamford Advocate, & Wine Diva Lifestyle


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