Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester
Institute of Technology
- “How to
Improve Policing With Evidence-Based Training”
By: Rochester Beacon – January 21, 2025 - “Can
Trump’s Move to Block Birthright Citizenship Survive the 14th Amendment?”
By: Medium – January 23, 2025
Thomas Marsh, Washington
State University
“Given
The Large Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in the U.S., We Should
Be Concerned, for Multiple Reasons”
By: The News
Tribune – January 21, 2025
“Eggs are a subsistence
food,” providing beneficial nutrients, especially for children and seniors.
That’s part of the reason that we have what we call ‘habit formation.’ Even
though prices change, people still will consume a certain amount of a good like
eggs."
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Read more on: The News Tribune
Alejandro Gutierrez-Li, North
Carolina State University
“How Much
Do Undocumented Immigrants Contribute to the U.S. Economy?”
By: CNN –
January 22, 2025
“While there are no
official figures in all areas, it is well known that undocumented workers tend
to focus on certain industries. They include agriculture, construction,
restaurants and hotels, and which, in the event of mass deportations, is to be
expected that the agricultural sector will be severely affected. The production
of fruits and vegetables, milk, meat and others such as Christmas trees or
flowers require a large number of workers to survive.”
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Read more on: CNN
David Zilberman, University
of California, Berkeley
“Biotech
Revolution Facilitates 'Smart Agriculture’”
By: China Daily
– January 7, 2025
“Policies can enhance
the development of "smart agriculture. First is continued investment in
life sciences and agricultural research and development and extension efforts
to transfer the knowledge to practitioners. The rate of monetary return for
agricultural research is much higher than market rates. And since climate
change is a global challenge, it is crucial to drastically expand agricultural
R&D in developing countries, enhancing their capacity to adapt and
mitigate.”
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Read more on: China Daily
Jada Thompson, University
of Arkansas
“Egg
Prices Are Soaring Again. Here’s Why and What to Expect”
By: KMUW –
January 21, 2025
“The losses are a
big factor in higher egg prices. One of the hard parts is there's this regional
concentration of production. And so when a disease is going through and hitting
farms in that area, it's gonna affect multiple farms, and that's gonna affect the
supply of eggs – and that supply then will affect our prices.”
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Read more on: KMUW
Alejandro Plastina, University
of Missouri-Columbia
“MU
Develops Subsidy Calculator to Help Farmers”
By: KOMU –
January 22, 2025
"Many famers had
thin profits margins some people actually lost money. So one way U.S Congress
decided to help farmers was through this economic assistance paymen. It’s not
about making money. It's about trying to cover the losses or pay for the higher
costs that farmer face in 2024 with stagnate commodity prices."
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Read more on: KOMU
Randall Fortenbery, Washington
State University
“Economist
to Take Closer Look at Trump Policy”
By: Capital Press
– January 23, 2025
"Some tariff policy
is very likely, noting former Vice President Kamala Harris was also promoting
tariffs, although possibly to a lesser extent than President-elect Donald
Trump. No matter who was elected, we might have probably seen a change in the
tariff regime.”
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Read more on: Capital Press
Gary Schnitkey, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Farmers
Will Continue to Face Economic Challenges the Next Ten Years”
By: Hoosier Ag
Today – January 23, 2025
“What we’re probably
looking at as an average if we take the prices over the next 10 years it will
average something near 4.30 and soybeans something near 10.00, 10.40… One is
the land area and what are you going to do about cash rents, and the second one
is machinery, and we’re going to have to, I think reevaluate our machinery
purchases.”
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Read more on: Hoosier Ag Today
Zachariah Rutledge, Michigan
State University
- "What Next for US Dairy Workforce
Under Trump"
By: Dairy Report
- January 22, 2025
"Trump’s
Tariff Strategy: A Game-Changer for America’s Dairy Industry"
By: The Bullvine
- January 23, 2025
