Monday, July 18, 2022

Members in the News: Lusk, Schnitkey, Zulauf, Irwin, Westhoff, Glauber, Liu, Mintert, Robe, Janzen, Davis, Kolodinsky, Batabyal, Chen, et al.

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Jayson Lusk, Purdue University

How to save money at the grocery store amid rising prices

By: TODAY - July 6, 2022

Jayson Lusk, an agricultural economics professor at Purdue University, told TODAY that feed prices for livestock are up, as well as export demand, which are two factors driving up the price of meat. He recommended exploring different cuts of meat to cut down on grocery prices.

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Read more on: TODAY


Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carl Zulauf, The Ohio State University

  • Higher reference prices come with a cost
    By: Successful Farming - July 5, 2022
  • 13 factors to consider in your 2023 seed selection decisions
    By: Successful Farming - July 6, 2022
  • 17 ways farmers can select 2023 seed in an inflationary era
    By: Successful Farming - July 7, 2022

Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patrick Westhoff, University of Missouri
Joseph Glauber, IFPRI

Commodity prices soften, although still elevated

By: Successful Farming  - July 8, 2022

Steered by fears of recession and a clearer picture of this year’s global grain harvest, the sky-high commodity prices fueled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are losing momentum, analysts said on Thursday. The USDA was likely to scale back its estimates of record-high farm-gate prices for this year’s wheat and soybean crops despite the uncertainties caused by warfare in the Black Sea region.

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Read more on: Successful Farming


Sarah Sellars, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carl Zulauf, The Ohio State University

 Are Ag Retailers Increasing Margins for Anhydrous Ammonia Over Time?

By: Ag Fax - July 1, 2022

Periods of high nitrogen fertilizer prices bring scrutiny to firms who make nitrogen fertilizer and retailers who sell nitrogen fertilizer. There are four major nitrogen fertilizer companies in North America. Typically, agricultural retailers and firms purchase the fertilizer in bulk from manufacturers and then haul, store, and distribute the fertilizer to farmers.

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Read more on: Ag Fax


Yong Liu, Texas A&M University

Importance of Historical Weather Info to Setting Premiums

By: Ag Fax - July 8, 2022

The study “Incorporating historical weather information in crop insurance rating,” authored by Yong Liu, Ph.D., a Texas A&M AgriLife Research agricultural economist and assistant professor in the Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics, Bryan-College Station, was recently published online in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. It was co-authored by Ford Ramsey, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech.

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Read more on: Ag Fax


James Mintert, Purdue University

Farmers in Indiana see monetary panorama worsening

By: 10 News & Journal & Courier - July 9, 2022

“Rising input costs and uncertainty about the future continue to weigh on farmer sentiment,” 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: 10 News & Journal & Courier


Patrick Westhoff, University of Missouri

What goes up: Grain prices since the Russian invasion of Ukraine

By: Columbia Daily Tribune - July 10, 2022

It was just a few weeks ago that the news was filled with stories about how the war in Ukraine was causing a dramatic global spike in prices for wheat and other crops. Recent developments are a reminder that what goes up usually comes back down.

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Read more on: Columbia Daily Tribune


Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign County farmers experiencing severe drought

By: WAND - July 7, 2022

The data shows Champaign County is the only county in Illinois to be considered in severe drought. Professor Scott Irwin says Champaign County is one of the best corn and soybean counties in the United States, but with high temperatures ahead, he says farmers are worried.

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Read more on: WAND


Michel Robe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

From the Farm: Export bans

By: WCIA - July 5, 2022

University of Illinois ag economist Michel Robe and his colleagues have researched the impact on prices of exported products that are banned for various reasons. They said such action immediately causes a price increase.

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Read more on: WCIA


Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joseph Janzen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Soybean prices fluctuate on lower U.S. acreage

By: West Virginia's News - July 6, 2022

University of Illinois agricultural economists Scott Irwin and Joe Janzen said in a webinar shortly after the report's release that this is the first true idea of what was actually planted this spring by producers. The June report showed a decline of 1 million acres of principal crops from the March estimate, but Irwin said wet conditions and delayed planting need to be factored in.

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Read more on: West Virginia's News


George Davis, Virginia Tech

More DC Region Residents Facing Food Insecurity

By: ABC 7 News - July 8, 2022

A new survey finds one in three people in the DC Region face food insecurity and the pandemic has only made it worse. George Davis, Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech broke down the research.

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Read more on: ABC 7 News


Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont

  • Vermont is piloting a new program to help farmers rely on one another during stressful times
    By: GBH News - June 29, 2022
  • Scott vetoes Act 250 reform bill
    By: Rutland Herald Online - June 2, 2022

Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology


Lijun Chen, University of Florida
Klaus Grunert, Aarhus University
Anna Josephson, University of Arizona

International Comparisons of Food Consumption Changes and Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: WICZ, KMLK, Tech Social Net, HTV 10, Seed Daily, Business Class News, Sangri Times, One News Page, Next Wave Group, News Blaze, & Street Insider - July 11, 2022

In the 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting session "International comparisons of food consumption changes and strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic" authors discuss the COVID-19 pandemic has been a pervasive disruptor of nearly every aspect of life in every corner of the world. Policy responses can be better designed and more effectively targeted if the various impacts of the pandemic can be better documented and understood.

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Read more on: WICZ, KMLK, Tech Social Net, Latin Trade, Seed Daily, Business Class News, Sangri Times, One News Page, Next Wave Group, News Blaze, & Street Insider


Jude Bayham, Colorado State University
Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Resources for the Future
Christine Dimke, Colorado State University
Joshua Olsen, Washington State University

Economics of Wildfires in Australia and the United States

By: Seed Daily, WICZ, Panhandle News Channel Nebraska, Street Insider, Betsol, Next Wave Group, One News Page, Business Class News, Manhattan Week, Sangri Times, News Blaze, Latin Trade, Tech Social Net, & Benzinga - July 7, 2022

In the 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting session "Economics of wildfire" authors discuss how the United States and Australia have both seen increasing impacts from wildfire in recent years. In 2021, California faced its largest single wildfire in recorded history, while Australia's wildfire season in 2019-2020 (known as the "Black Summer") made news around the world for its widespread impacts. Fire policy makers and managers face a wealth of complex decision problems, including long-term stategic decisions about mitigating risk and short-term within-fire tactical decisions.

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Read more on: Seed Daily, WICZ, Panhandle News Channel Nebraska, Street Insider, Betsol, Next Wave Group, One News Page, Business Class News, Manhattan Week, Sangri Times, News Blaze, Latin Trade, Tech Social Net, & Benzinga


David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Cooper, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist
Heidi Schweizer, North Carolina State University
Shawn Arita, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist

[Risk and] Supply Chain Resilience: Lessons from the Pandemic

By: HTV 10, Panhandle News Channel Nebraska, Omaha and Lincoln News Channel Nebraska, KMLK, Street Insider, Sangri Times, Seed Daily, One News Page, Business Class News, Manhattan Week, Betsol, Tech Social Net, Next Wave Group, & News Blaze - July 8, 2022

In the 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting session "[Risk and] Supply Chain Resilience: Lessons from the Pandemic" authors discuss the agricultural sector has been reasonably resilient in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the question remains of whether the supply disruptions that did occur where greater than socially optimal.

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Read more on: HTV 10, Panhandle News Channel Nebraska, Omaha and Lincoln News Channel Nebraska, KMLK, Street Insider, Sangri Times, Seed Daily, One News Page, Business Class News, Manhattan Week, Betsol, Tech Social Net, Next Wave Group, & News Blaze


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