Monday, July 12, 2021

Members in the News: Escalante, Glauber, Kauffman, Hart, Fischer, Doidge, Rousu, Corrigan, Mintert, Jodlowski, Tonsor, Bir, & AEPP

Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia-Athens

'Rampant issues': Black farmers are still left out at USDA

By: Politico, Newslanes, & Portside - July 5, 2021

Cesar Escalante, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Georgia who has studied loan patterns for socially disadvantaged farmers, co-authored a study published last year in the Agricultural Finance Review, showing that minority borrowers were often given smaller loan amounts with higher interest rates because they had poorer results in credit scoring models.

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Read more on: Politico, Newslanes, & Portside


Joseph Glauber, IFPRI

  • Too hot? The robots aren't complaining
    By: Politico - June 29, 2021
  • Should the Agriculture Industry Be More Regulated?
    By: Bloomberg - June 29, 2021
  • Biden wants to pay farmers to grow carbon-capturing crops. It's complicated.
    By: Yahoo News - June 29, 2021
  • China's Import Appetite Raises Prospects In US Farm Belt
    By: Agro World - July 2021

Nathan Kauffman, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Chad Hart, Iowa State University

Keep the Good Times Rolling - 1

By: Progressive Farmer - July 2, 2021

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Vice President Nathan Kauffman said it's important for producers to maintain the disciplined management approaches they've adopted in recent years. Kauffman serves as the bank's principal expert in agriculture economics.

"Prices got low enough to jumpstart exports early," said Chad Hart, Iowa State University economist and crops and biofuels specialist. At the same time, China expressed its intent to meet its commitments to the phase-one trade deal, which would require buying $36.5 billion of U.S. ag products in the calendar year.

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Read more on: Progressive Farmer


Bart Fischer, Texas A&M University

Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course offers Texas ranchers a glance at the future

By: AgriLife Today & North Texas e-News - July 5, 2021

“We’ll also be discussing what is happening in surrounding states, such as Colorado’s recent ballot initiative  Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suffering and Exploitation, which has now been put on pause, as well as Gov. Jared Polis’ MeatOut Day proclamation,” Fisher said. “We have to be aware of what could be knocking on our door next.”

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Read more on: AgriLife Today & North Texas e-News


Mary Doidge, McGill University

Our Ohio Weekly with Ty Higgins 07/04/2021

By: iHeart Radio - July 4, 2021

In light of climate-induced risks and uncertainties like increasing extreme rainfall events and warmer temperatures, a team made up of research, extension, and outreach professionals at Ohio State are working together to identify how to promote sustainability and resilience in the Eastern Corn Belt. They are also trying to understand how farmers’ can adapt to these changing conditions while supporting both agricultural production and the protection of our critical ecosystem.

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Read more on: iHeart Radio


Matthew Rousu, Susquehanna University
Jay Corrigan, Kenyon College

Pa. should consider a vaccine lottery

By: Trib Total Media - July 3, 2021

In May, Ohio announced that five lucky adults who’ve received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine will win $1 million in weekly drawings starting May 26. Nearly 5 million Ohioans have already been vaccinated, meaning each has a one-in-a-million chance of winning $1 million.

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Read more on: Trib Total Media


James Mintert, Purdue University

Rising input costs causing concern for farmers

By: Morning Ag Clips - July 6, 2021

“Farmers expect their input costs to rise much more rapidly in the year ahead than they have over the last decade, contributing to their concerns about their farm finances and financial future,” said James Mintert, the barometer’s principal investigator and director of Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture.

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Read more on: Morning Ag Clips


Margaret Jodlowski, The Ohio State University

Labor concerns plaguing U.S. agriculture

By: Ohio's Country Journal - July 6, 2021

A new report, “Ohio’s H-2A and H-2B workforce: An update,” by Margaret Jodlowski, Assistant Professor in The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Department of Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics, said the move offers a temporary solution but doesn’t address a long-term resolution to ongoing labor shortages in agriculture and beyond.

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Read more on: Ohio's Country Journal


Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University

Senate Ag Committee holds hearing on cattle markets, transparency, prices

By: High Plains Journal - July 7, 2021

No relationship is more relevant currently than the relationship of fed cattle inventories to processor capacity. Since 2016, the relationship has changed, exceeding operational processing capacity in the beef industry. The Holcomb plant fire in 2019 and developments during the pandemic occurred in this time period as well, Tonsor said.

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Read more on: High Plains Journal


Courtney Bir, Oklahoma State University

Farm finance and budgeting resources available

By: Muskogee Phoenix - July 7, 2021

“Farm business margins have always been light, and now there are a lot of things in flux, even more than usual,” said Courtney Bir, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Oklahoma State University Extension specialist. “Making decisions when you don’t have a sense of what’s happening is difficult.”

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Read more on: Muskogee Phoenix


Applied Economics Perspectives & Policy

Should the United State use Antitrust Policies on Big Agriculture?

By: Fox 40, ADVFN, SNN News, WRDE Coast TV, My San Antonio, Midplains – News Channel Nebraska, Seattle PI, Chron, SF Gate, Times Union, AZ Central, The Valley City Times Record, The Poteau Daily News, Wapak Daily News, The Evening Leader, Financial Content, The Sweet Water Reporter, AM News, Virtual Strategy Magazine, Deer Park Tribune, Daily Times Leader, SM Daily Press, Decatur Daily Democrat, Punxsutawney Spirit, Buffalo News, My Mother Lode, One News Page, Next Wave Group, Gateway News Source, Tech Social Net, State of Digital Publishing, Seed Daily, News Blaze, Daily Herald, Borger News Herald, The Post & Mail, The Saline Courier, News OK, The Kane Republican, The Inyo Register, Starkville Daily News, Chronicle Journal, Ridgway Record, Winslow, Evans, & Crocker, The Antlers American, Observer News Online, The Pilot News, Mammoth Times, & The Community Post - July 2, 2021

In the new Applied Economics Perspectives & Policy article "Should we use antitrust policies on big agriculture?" Jason Winfree and Philip Watson from the University of Idaho discuss some of the potential problems of using antitrust law to break up big agriculture.

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Read more on: Fox 40ADVFN, SNN News, WRDE Coast TV, My San Antonio, Midplains –News Channel Nebraska, Seattle PI, Chron, SF Gate, Times Union, AZ Central, The Valley City Times Record, The Poteau Daily News, Wapak Daily News, The Evening Leader, Financial Content, The Sweet Water Reporter, AM News, Virtual Strategy Magazine, Deer Park Tribune, Daily Times Leader, SM Daily Press, Decatur Daily Democrat, Punxsutawney Spirit, Buffalo News, My Mother Lode, One News Page, Next Wave Group, Gateway News Source, Tech Social Net, State of Digital Publishing, Seed Daily, News Blaze, Daily Herald, Borger News Herald, The Post & Mail, The Saline Courier, News OK, The Kane Republican, The Inyo Register, Starkville Daily News, Chronicle Journal, Ridgway Record, Winslow, Evans, & Crocker, The Antlers American, Observer News Online, The Pilot News, Mammoth Times, & The Community Post


 

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