Members in the News: November 13, 2023

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Amit Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology “When We Make Choices, Do We Habitually Make Mistakes?” By: Medium – November 4, 2023 “Resources To Save ‘Every Creeping Thing of The Earth’ Are Limited. What Would Noah Do?” By: The Conversation – November 8, 2023 Joe Janzen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “How U.S. Soybeans Influence Global Economics” By: CNBC – October 12, 2023 “Over 30 or 40 years, Brazil has dramatically increased soybean acreage and production. Brazil is a relatively low-cost place to produce corn and soybeans. The export market is very competitive and we need to be cost competitive with Brazil and Argentina if we want to capture market share.” (Continued...) Read More On: CNBC Rabail Chandio, Iowa State University Bruce Sherrick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nick Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Several Factors Go Into Farmland Buying Decisions” By: Missouri Farmers Today – November 4, 2023 “Survey results show the majority of Iowa’s farmland is bought by people who plan to farm it themselves. Most of the people who are buying farmland in Iowa are existing farmers.” “As with every asset, land is what you can make off it. Of course, other factors can change the value to a particular farmer, such as location. A farm that borders you is worth more to you.” “Location is one of the most important things for farmers. Location, location, location’ couldn’t be more fitting. Obviously you can’t move farmland. It has to fit with the operation if the intent is to buy it to use in production.” (Continued...) Read More On: Missouri Farmers Today Grace Melo, Texas A&M University Andrea Leschewski, South Dakota State University “Letting low-Income Americans Buy Groceries Online in 2020 With SNAP Benefits Decreased The Share of People Without Enough Food – New Research” By: The Conversation – November 10, 2023 “The share of low-income U.S. families experiencing food insufficiency – sometimes or often not having enough food to eat – fell from 24.5% to 22.5% at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we found in a new study published in the November 2023 issue of Food Policy.” “This 2 percentage-point decline coincided with the rapid expansion of a pilot program that allows the purchase of groceries online with benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.” (Continued...) Read More On: The Conversation Michael Boland, University of Minnesota “Turkey Prices Declining Despite Bird Flu Outbreak” By: ESeuro – November 3, 2023 “As of November 3rd, it doesn’t look like the price of turkeys will be affected by the Avian flu outbreak. If something were to happen devastating it clearly might happen but at this late date it probably isn’t going to have an impact.” (Continued...) Read More On: ESeuro Thomas Hertel, Purdue University “Ag economist Tom Hertel receives Spirit of Land-Grant Mission Award” By: Indiana Ag Connection – November 3, 2023 It’s the most important award I’ll ever receive. A lot of places, you bring up a new idea and the administration’s first inclination is to find ways to kill it, It was the opposite at Purdue. They cleared the decks of administrative hurdles. That’s something I’ve always appreciated.” (Continued...) Read More On: Indiana Ag Connection Marin Skidmore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Soy Farming May Be Causing Child Cancer Deaths in Brazil: Study” By: Eurasia Review – October 31, 2023 “Over the past decades, Brazil's Amazon region has moved from cattle production to the cultivation of soy in response to a high global demand for soybeans. Brazil is currently the world's largest producer of the crop. The expansion has happened really quickly.” (Continued...) Read More On: Ground Report Jonathan Coppess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Farm Bill Faces Battle as GOP Pushes To Strip Climate, SNAP Funding For Subsidies” By: The Hill – November 6, 2023 “These critics note that for virtually all U.S. commodities — such as corn, soybeans or barley — ARC/PLC payments will increase no matter what Congress does with this Farm Bill. And the reason they won’t automatically increase for the three crops Republicans are targeting is because reference prices for those commodities are already so high." (Continued...) Read More On: The Hill James Mintert, Purdue University “Farmer Sentiment Rises as Producers Report Improved Financial Conditions on Their Farms” By: Morning Ag Clips – November 7, 2023 “Farmers in this month’s survey were slightly less concerned about the risk of lower prices for crops and livestock and felt somewhat better about their farms’ financial situation than a month earlier. Reports of higher-than-expected corn and soybean yields in some Corn Belt locations, along with a modest rally in corn prices, likely contributed to this month’s rise in the financial conditions and the barometer indices.” (Continued...) Read More On: Morning Ag Clips