*Disclaimer - This email is to acknowledge citations of current AAEA members and/or their research in any public media channel. AAEA does not agree nor disagree with the views or attitudes of cited outside publications. David Ortega, Michigan State University As prices rise, consumers are treating themselves with snacks By: Quartz - April 27, 2022 Plus, being stuck more at home, consumers have turned to spending more at the grocery store since they weren’t venturing out to restaurants as much, said David Ortega, an associate professor at Michigan State University who focuses on food marketing and agribusiness management. (Continued...) Jennifer Ifft, Kansas State University K-State releases nine-part series on Livestock Risk Protection By: Beef Magazine - April 27, 2022 Jennifer Ifft knows that farmers and ranchers face risk each day, so finding strategies to mitigate risk is necessary to be successful. (Continued...) Jackson Takach, Farmer Mac 3 Economic Forces to Watch that Will Impact Agriculture By: Ag Web - April 25, 2022 U.S. inflation is at a 40-year high, and the U.S. is not the sole owner of the inflation situation (see map). “We didn’t talk about inflation for 20 years,” says Jackson Takach, chief economist at Farmer Mac. “That’s not the case anymore.” (Continued...) Jayson Lusk, Purdue University The difference you make when you eat less meat By: Vox - April 22, 2022 Lusk is realistic about just how much individual choices matter. “Any individual person is such a small piece of the overall story that me removing myself from the market has a very, very, very small effect on price,” he told me recently. But “if you go from the average [amount of chicken consumption] to zero, it’s a non-trivial consequence on the number of chickens that are out there … so maybe that’s the good news.” (Continued...) John Bovay, Virginia Tech Virginia Tech researchers to address methods for measuring on-farm food loss and waste By: Agro Insurance - April 22, 2022 “Reducing food loss and waste may have implications for both the environmental impact of agriculture and for food prices,” said John Bovay, an assistant professor of food and health economics and the principal investigator for the project. “The environmental costs are mostly generated by inputs such as fertilizer, water, pesticides, and fuel to produce, market, and purchase food that eventually goes uneaten.” (Continued...) Farzad Taheripour, Purdue University Study Examines the Impact of Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on Biofuels Production By: Engineered Systems - April 24, 2022 “This is the first comprehensive examination of market factors and policies on the expansion of biofuels production in the U.S. to examine the economic impact of these individual drivers separately,” said Farzad Taheripour, the Purdue University agricultural economist who led the study. (Continued...) Andrew Stevens, University of Wisconsin Inflation hits Wisconsin food pantries and the families they support By: PBS Wisconsin - April 26, 2022 Andrew Stevens, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at UW-Madison, said that in a period of rapid inflation, assistance programs can be slow to adapt. (Continued...) Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology Who will get Guaranteed Basic Income in Rochester?Who will get Guaranteed Basic Income in RochesWho will get Guaranteed Basic Income in Rochester? By: Spectrum News 1 - April 27, 2022 “It’s so very very difficult to are getting problem to resolve now 300 years later,” said Dr. Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell professor in economics at RIT. “And then decide okay person X gets this amount of money, person Y gets some amount of money that’s less than what X gets. What’s the basis for making those kinds of distinctions?" (Continued...) Todd Kuethe, Purdue University Indiana’s farmland prices hit historic high By: The Republic - April 24, 2022 Todd Kuethe, an associate professor of agricultural economics at Purdue, said the top sales aren’t unusual for the region, as industrial and residential development efforts have driven most of the land transactions recently in Marion County and the surrounding counties, specifically those near major interstates. (Continued...) Chadelle Robinson, New Mexico State University NMSU National Agri-Marketing Association team competes in semifinals at nationals By: Las Cruces Sun News - April 23, 2022 “NMSU NAMA provides students countless opportunities, from career and professional development to networking skills to actual hands-on marketing knowledge,” said Chadelle Robinson, NMSU NAMA adviser and Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business assistant professor. (Continued...) Jackie Copfer, University of California, Berkeley Preferences for Sustainability and Supply Chain Essential Worker Conditions: Survey Evidence during COVID-19 By: News Blaze, WICZ, Suncoast News Network, Terra Daily, Sangri Times, Next Wave Group, HTV 10, WPGX Fox 28, & Spoke - April 20, 2022 In the new article "Preferences for Sustainability and Supply Chain Essential Worker Conditions: Survey Evidence during COVID-19" Jackie Copfer, Nica Campbell, and Sofia Villas-Boas from the University of California, Berkeley, ask if consumers value sustainability and safe working conditions, especially during the COVID-19 Pandemic. (Continued...) Chengcheng Fei, Texas A&M University Impacts of Climate Change on Water Management in the South Central Texas Region By: Suncoast News Network, SNN TV, 3WZ, WPGX Fox 28, HTV 10, KMLK, WICZ, Street Insider, Northeast News Channel Nebraska, & Energy Daily - April 27, 2022 In the new article "Impacts of Climate Change on Water Management," generated under an NSF funded project, Chengcheng Fei, Bruce A. McCarl, Yingqian Yang, Yuhong Lei, Lingyi Li, Raghavan Srinivasan, and Bingru Sheng from Texas A&M University, Essayas Kaba Ayana from Formation Environmental, LLC, and Xinxin Fan from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign look into the challenges of water planning to meet increasing water demand in water scarce South Central Texas, and how climate change is also effecting the situation, on both demand and supply sides. (Continued...) |
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