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Monday, June 30, 2025

Members in the News: June 30, 2025

Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mckenzie Boyce,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wisconsin’s Labor Shortage is a Barrier to Economic Growth, Report Says

By: NPR – June 25, 2025

“A lot of Wisconsin businesses have been struggling with finding employees, and they have been for a number of years, going back to before COVID… To some degree, Wisconsin’s lag in productivity can be attributed to having a large rural population and a lot of small towns. Businesses in rural areas tend to be smaller with less capital to spend on technology.”

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Read more on: NPR or Superior Telegram, Urban Milwaukee  


Charles Martinez, University of Tennessee

Bull Buyers and EPDs

By: Red Angus Remarks – June 6, 2025

“Dr. Martinez have utilized eye tracking software to follow producers' eye movements when looking at catalogues and which traits producers are utilizing when making decisions. Dr. Martinez shares great detail on his work in this area and other areas of the industry where this technology and research may be useful. “

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Patrick Westhoff, University of Missouri
Chad Hart,
Iowa State University

Why Trump’s Second Trade War Could Be Worse for US Farmers

By: Midwest – June 24, 2025

“I’ve never seen a time where the level of policy uncertainty is as high as it is right now. You have all the normal uncertainties that farmers face just because of weather and so on. Now you’ve got this huge policy uncertainty as well. It may turn out well, or it may turn out very badly, and we just don’t know right now.”

“Loan repayment has dropped. A lot of this action is due to just the general decline in crop income over the past couple of years, which started before the trade fight.”

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Antonina Broyaka, Kansas State University

Expert: EU Quotas Put More Ukrainian Products on Global Market

By: Capital Press – June 25, 2025

“Ukraine will need to diversify its agricultural exports, since export capacity is much higher than Europe is going to buy from Ukraine. Ukraine will search for alternative markets, which means there will be high competition on the other markets. The EU was always the main market for Ukrainian animal and crop products. Its value for Ukraine was nearly $12.9 billion in 2024, double that of 2021, prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology 

Stunting In India And Role Of Food Transfers

By: Basis Point – June 27, 2025

“Stunting, the impaired growth and development of children from poor nutrition, repeated infection, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation, remains a persistent challenge in India. The causes and consequences of stunting in India have been much debated.”

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Read more on: Basis Point

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