*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 Grocery store prices aren’t coming down anytime soon By: CNN - September 30, 2022 “There’s a lot of uncertainty,” said David Ortega, food economist and associate professor at Michigan State University. It’s not clear when the war in Ukraine will end, or how weather will impact crops in the future. “That’s one of the reasons why prices take longer to come down.” (Continued...) Jayson Lusk, Purdue University Food prices are soaring, and that’s changed how we eat By: CNN & ZPhysician Newspaper - September 24, 2022 “If food prices continue to increase at a rate that outpaces increases in wages, that is the inevitable consequence,” said Jayson Lusk, head of the agricultural economics department at Purdue University. “The last time we had a big run up in food insecurity rates was in the wake of the Great Recession.” Last year, about 10.2% of US households were food insecure, according to the USDA, slightly below the 10.5% rate in 2020 and 2019. Food “matters a lot to our self esteem, our mood,” said William Masters, a professor at Tufts University’ school of nutrition science and policy who is also a member of the economics department faculty. “Not being able to buy the foods that people are used to — that your children are asking for, that your family wants — that’s a really hard thing,” he said. “Any disruption of habit is very, very hard.” (Continued...) Ani Katchova, The Ohio State University
Nate Kauffman, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Ag Economy Faces Global Risks By: Progressive Farmer - September 30, 2022 Despite higher-priced inputs, interest rates and inflation, overall conditions for Midwest farmers right now are stronger than they were before the pandemic, said Nate Kauffman, an economist for the Omaha branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. (Continued...) Christopher Wolf, Cornell University Milk quality, understanding that PPD! & a peek into future milk prices By: Morning Ag Clips - September 25, 2022 The final speaker will be Dr. Christopher Wolf. He will discuss what dairy producers can expect from future market conditions and what the likelihood of Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) payments will be. (Continued...) Luis Peña-Lévano, University of Wisconsin – River Falls UWRF researchers studying impact of robotic milking tech By: WisPolitics - September 27, 2022 According to a release from the university, Luis Peña-Lévano and Shaheer Burney from UW-River Falls’ Agricultural Economics Department will be working with other specialists from the University of Minnesota, University of Georgia, North Carolina State University and Texas A&M University. (Continued...) Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UI's Solar Farm 2.0 now a hotbed for new research By: The News-Gazette - September 24, 2022 “Solar farms are really profitable, much more than corn and soybean farming. So there is this potential conflict between food and energy,” said Madhu Khanna, professor in Environmental Economics and director of the Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Environment at UIUC. “Agrivoltaics is a good alternative for how we can produce both food and energy from the same land.” (Continued...) Brian Whitacre, Oklahoma State University Broadband is coming to rural communities. Will farmers be left behind? By: Capital Press - September 28, 2022 "This latest takeaway that ag doesn't look like it's going to be included (in the map) is not promising, frankly," said Brian Whitacre, an agricultural economics professor and digital divide researcher at Oklahoma State University. In Oklahoma, for example, in an analysis of 2020-2021 data, Whitacre and co-researcher Christina Biedny, a Ph.D. student, found that agriculture was the least-served land use category, with 39% of agricultural structures lacking 25 megabits per second download/3 Mbps upload and 78% lacking the speed the Fiber Optic Association defines as "sufficient:" 100/20 Mbps. (Continued...) Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology Processes, not incentives – what we need to address climate change now By: Rochester Business Journal - September 20, 2022 This means thinking seriously about geoengineering or climate engineering. This kind of engineering embraces two types of technologies: carbon dioxide removal and, most interestingly, sunlight reflection methods. (Continued...) |
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