Brian Roe, The Ohio State University Nearly 200 of the world's biggest food suppliers pledge to halve their food waste By: The Washington Post - September 23, 2020 Brian Roe, a professor in the department of agricultural, environmental and development economics at Ohio State University, said producers can do more — not just to eliminate food waste in their operations, but to ultimately help keep consumers from pitching so much, too. “There may be systems that help the consumer to waste less food so it’s not just a matter of consumers acting badly,” he says. Those might include the right packaging and labeling, better instructions, or smaller portion sizes, he notes. (Continued...) Susan Offutt, DCL Consulting ERS, NIFA coping with moves to K.C. a year later By: Agri-Pulse - September 22, 2020 But Susan Offutt, a senior consultant who served as ERS administrator for 10 years from 1997-2006 and who opposed the relocation, says while Stefanou, who will be based in Washington with the ERS employees that remained after the move, “has been a productive university researcher and provided valuable service as a journal editor, going forward he won’t have much help from experienced civil servants.” ERS has continued to churn out required reports on issues such as farm income, but Scott Swinton, a Michigan State economist who is past president of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, says, “I know that I am seeing fewer new reports. The items that I have found useful for class have all been based on prior ERS research projects — with the important exception of research into COVID-19 effects on ag prices.” (Continued...) Xi He, Iowa State University Still plenty of corn left to fill China's demand: Iowa State University study By: The Gazette - September 9, 2020 Hayes, Xi He and Wendong Zhang predict China will purchase some $21.63 billion in agricultural products from the United States, all within the first year of the U.S.-China trade deal’s phase one. (Continued...) James MacDonald, USDA-Economic Research Service One year after a mass employee exodus, USDA’s research arm remains half-staffed. New work has ground to a near halt. By: The Counter - September 22, 2020 “The number of reports has fallen off sharply,” said James MacDonald, a professor at the University of Maryland and former ERS economist, who has continued to work with agency staff. “It’s greater than zero—but it’s pretty close to zero.” Another ERS staffer, Paul Heisey, had worked at the agency for over 20 years when he retired last September. As a result, some of the databases that he’d maintained for the past two decades are no longer being updated. “The most important role of ERS and economic analysis within government is to objectively tell people the truth,” said David Zilberman, professor of agricultural economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Zilberman isn’t alone in his concerns. (Continued...) Joseph Glauber, IFPRI It Is Time for the United States to Again Show Leadership at the WTO By: Center for Strategic & International Studies & American Enterprise Institute - September 16, 2020 Global agricultural trade has seen tremendous growth since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. Since 1995, global agricultural exports have more than tripled in value and more than doubled in volume, exceeding $1.8 trillion in 2018. (Continued...) Johan Swinnen, IFPRI Post-coronavirus, how can we achieve food justice? By: Horizon Magazine, Today Headline, & The Naked Scientists - September 15, 2020 The big question right now is how to make the food system more resilient. Covid-19 is a good illustration of why we need it. The predictions in March and April showed that there were enough basic foods in the world. There were high stocks of rice and grains, and good harvests were predicted for 2020. There was no reason to be afraid of food shortages at a global level. (Continued...) Joseph Glauber, IFPRI
Zoë Plakias, The Ohio State University Harvesting Field Results By: U.S. Farm Report - September 19, 2020
(Continued...) David Anderson, Texas A&M University New Startup Competition MilkLaunch Aims To Innovate New York’s Dairy Industry By: Crunchbase - September 17, 2020 “Most big cities used to have small dairies around them, but now they don’t as land has become more expensive. Many people don’t think of New York as an agricultural state, but it is one of the top 10 or five states for agriculture production,” said David Anderson, Ph.D., professor and extension economist for livestock and food product marketing in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University, in an interview. (Continued...) Benjamin Brown, The Ohio State University Panelists to Discuss Supply Chain, U.S. Trade Policy By: The Farmer's Exchange & Omro's County Journal - September 18, 2020 The U.S. trade policy, labor and immigration issues, agricultural commodity markets, and the food supply chain will be among the topics addressed at a panel discussion during the 59th annual Farm Science Review Sept. 22–24 at fsr.osu.edu. (Continued...) Marin Bozic, University of Minnesota 2020 Negative PPD Challenges Snowballing By: Brownfield Ag News - September 23, 2020 Marin Bozic with the University of Minnesota tells Brownfield government purchasing through the Coronavirus food box program caused a rapid increase in the Class III prices after the Class I price had been set for June and also led to the largest spread between Class III and Class IV cash cheese markets on record. (Continued...) Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
Robert Chambers, University of Maryland The Sources of Measured US Agricultural Productivity Growth: Weather, Technological Change, and Adaptation By: SF Gate, Times Union, Chron, Fox 21 Delmarva, Benzinga, Starkville Daily News, Deer Park Tribune, One News Page, Digital Conqurer, Roseman Solutions LLC, Next Wave Group, News Blaze, Magazines Today, Gateway News Source, Seed Daily, Tech Social Net, Invest USA, The Inyo Register, The Saline Courier, The Ridgway Record, Decatur Daily Democrat, The Observer News Enterprise, The Kane Republican, WICZ, WBOC, The Pilot New, My Mother Lode, The Community Post, The Post & Mail, & NewsOK - September 17, 2020 In the new article “The Sources of Measured US Agricultural Productivity Growth: Weather, Technological Change and Adaptation” published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, authors Robert Chambers from the University of Maryland and Simone Pieralli, from Massey University in New Zealand recognize the stochastic nature of agriculture by incorporating weather effects directly into a TFP growth accounting framework. (Continued...) |
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Monday, September 28, 2020
Members in the News: Roe, Offutt, Stefanou, Swinton, He, Zhang, MacDonald, Heisey, Zilberman, Glauber, Swinnen, Bozic, Plakias, Brown.. et al.
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