Monday, August 19, 2024

Members in the News: August 19, 2024

David Ortega, Michigan State University
Christopher Barrett
, Cornell University

"How Food Prices Have Changed Over the Past Four Years"

By: The New York Times - August 13, 2024

Those increases have largely been driven by the cost of transporting, packaging and processing food products, said David Ortega, a food economist at Michigan State University. “The vast majority of the cost of food is because of things that happen once that food leaves the farm gate.”

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Read more on: New York Times


Seungki Lee, The Ohio State University

“Will extreme heat push grocery prices higher?”

By: News 5 Cleveland – August 2, 2024

“When thinking about extreme heat and crops, Ohio State University agricultural economist Seungki Lee said there is added stress on the plants. We usually call it threshold, or maybe some tipping points, that the plant cannot survive anymore or cannot be productive as usual,’ he said.”

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Read more on: News 5 Cleveland


Brian Roe, The Ohio State University

  • “Professor discusses American food waste, offers tips to save money and environment”
    By: Spectrum News 1 – July 13, 2024
  • Brian Roe, The Ohio State University
    “Tips for leading a more sustainable life”
    By: WOSU All Slides – July 24, 2024

Wendong Zhang, Cornell University

Market to Market - August 9, 2024

By: Iowa PBS – August 9, 2024

“There are an estimated 1.3 billion acres of privately held agricultural land in the United States. Of that, foreign entities fully or partially own about 43 million acres according to USDA data. This is 3.4 percent of all privately held agricultural land and about 2 percent of all land in the United States. “

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Read more on: Iowa PBS


Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology

Race vs. Class in Achieving the American Dream

By: Rochester Beacon – August 12, 2024

“The fact that systemic racial discrimination has prevented many Black Americans, and more generally racial minorities, from attaining the American dream is well-known. However, in recent times, several authors have contended that income or class ought to be given as much and maybe even more weight than race when contemplating policy designed to promote upward economic mobility.”

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Read more on: Rochester Beacon


Yangxuan Liu, University of Georgia

2023 Georgia Quality Cotton Award Winners Announced
By: Valdosta CEA – August 29, 2024 or Middle Georgia CEO, Metro Atlanta CEO, Tifton CEO

2024 GCC Mid-Year Meeting - Presentation of 2023 Georgia Quality Cotton Awards
By: Georgia Cotton Commission – July 30, 2024


Pierre Mérel, University of California, Davis

How Trump’s “Mass Deportation” Plan Would Ruin America

By: Mother Jones – August 8, 2024

“Labor-intensive fruit and vegetable harvesting would be most affected. A 50 percent decrease in the farm labor supply could result in a 21 percent increase in the prices of hand-picked crops.”

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Read more on: Mother Jones


Alejandro Plastina, Iowa State University

New Free Calculator Helps Farmers Determine Their Carbon Intensity Score

By: Carbon Herald – August 8, 2024

“starting in 2025, specific ethanol plants that participate in this program will be eligible for tax credits if they accept crops with a reduced carbon footprint. The tax credit that will be issued to grain buyers is known as the Federal Tax Credit 45Z, also referred to as the “Clean Fuel Production Credit. Some of these ethanol plants may also provide incentives to farmers who supply crops with lower CO2 emissions, which is why Plastina is hopeful that farmers will utilize the calculator to assess their current emissions levels and explore ways to make changes that will result in a decreased carbon footprint.”

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Read more on: Carbon Herald


Levan Elbakidze, West Virginia University

WVU Researchers ID Contamination Hot Spots

By: The Inter-Mountain – August 14, 2024

“They’re called ‘forever chemicals’ because once they are made, they don’t biodegrade. The hot spots identified cover 10 states and 149 counties. The regional hot spots have PFAS manufacturing plants, industrial sites that utilize PFAS, and/or densely populated communities, while the Colorado hotspot encompasses counties with the U.S. Space Command, an Air Force Base and an Air Force Academy that uses PFAS as part of their operations.”

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Read more on: The Inter-Mountain, West Virginia Press Association, Register-Herald, Nature World, Smart Water Magazine


David Anderson, Texas A&M University

Texas Ranchers Optimistic Amid Slow Beef Herd Rebuild

By: Austin County News – August 13, 2024

“producers are moving more cautiously this time because the net profit opportunities are much lower than a decade ago. The dollars and cents of it isn’t the same as last time. Costs are higher, interest rates are higher, and that makes producers proceed with more caution, which translates into slower rebuilding.”

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Read more on: Austin County News


Jason Franken, Western Illinois University

Cattle Herd Contraction Appears To Be Continuing

By: Pacific Northwest Ag Network – August 12, 2024

“A model estimates the July 1 U.S. cattle inventory to be 94.2 million head or 1.2% lower than in July 2023. Hence, it appears the U.S. cattle industry overall remains in a contractionary phase, even if there may be regional pockets of expansion.”

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Read more on: Pacific Northwest Ag Network


Stephan Goetz, Pennsylvania State University

US Companies' Global Market Reach Linked to Cloud Computing Use

By: Techxplore – August 13, 2024

“U.S. manufacturing is increasingly concentrating in rural areas, and this corresponds with a decline of manufacturing in urban areas. Our findings suggest that to remain competitive in the international market amid this changing context, U.S. manufacturing could potentially benefit from more widespread use of cloud-computing services, especially in rural and other non-urban areas."

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Read more on: Techxplore


 

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