Members in the News: Massey, Afesorgbor, Nmadu, Atallah, Zulauf, Orden, Schnitkey, McCluskey, Bellemare, Richards, & Orazem

Raymond Massey, University of Missouri Value of Missouri Land Continues to Grow By: Successful Farming - January 28, 2021 Buyers of farmland near metropolitan areas said expansion of broadband internet made these properties more attractive to investors, Massey says. COVID-19 also nudged some city dwellers to buy property in rural areas to build a house. Massey said this likely is a short-term phenomenon and should not factor into long-term land values in these areas. (Continued...) Read more on: Successful Farming Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, University of Guelph What Biden's presidency means for Canada-U.S. agri-food trade By: The Conversation - January 31, 2021 Although international trade has long been affected by domestic politics, former U.S. president Donald Trump dramatically increased trade irritants between the United States and Canada. This was especially challenging in the agricultural sector where political interference in international trade is more prevalent than in the non-agricultural sector. (Continued...) Read more on: The Conversation Job Nmadu, Federal University of Technology, Minna Don Seeks Change In Agric Programmes’ Entry Requirements In Universities By: Independent - January 28, 2021 Prof. Job Nmadu, National President of Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economists, commended Nwajiuba for his immense contributions to Agricultural Economics in Nigeria, noting that his research efforts in the field was ‘evidential’. (Continued...) Read more on: Independent Shadi Atallah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Indigenous tribe that worships tigers helps protect the species By: Phys.org & Eurasia Review - January 29, 2021 The Soligas tribe in the Western Ghats of India reveres the Bengal tiger. Their coexistence in India's Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve has helped the tiger population flourish, says Shadi Atallah, a natural resource economist in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at University of Illinois. (Continued...) Read more on: Phys.org & Eurasia Review Carl Zulauf, The Ohio State University David Orden, Virginia Tech Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Concentration and Diversification in World Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Exports By: Farms.com - February 2, 2021 Export restraints, including taxes and embargos, are a food security risk for importers.  Diversification of sources is one way to manage the risk.  Since the early 1990s, a marked decline in the US share of world corn, soybean, and wheat exports has been accompanied by a diversification of corn and wheat export sources but little diversification of soybean export sources. (Continued...) Read more on: Farms.com Jill McCluskey, Washington State University Marc Bellemare, University of Minnesota Timothy Richards, Arizona State University Jill McCluskey named editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics By: Fruit Growers News & Vegetable Growers News - February 1, 2021 Helping share and expand knowledge of the economics of food, agriculture, and natural resources, Jill McCluskey, Regents Professor and Director of the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University, is the newest editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE). (Continued...) Read more on: Fruit Growers News & Vegetable Growers News Peter Orazem, Iowa State University New study looks at success of business start-ups in rural towns By: Farm World - February 1, 2021 The study’s researchers examined data consistently collected over two decades on a sample of 98 typical small Iowa towns that don’t share a border with a metropolitan city. Since 2000, the only areas that consistently added new firms and increased employment were metropolitan areas,” said Peter Orazem, ISU professor of economics, who led the study. (Continued...) Read more on: Farm World

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