Monday, October 6, 2025

Members in the News: October 06, 2025

 Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Game Theory, Consumer Choice, and the Market for Remanufactured Goods
    By: Faculti.net – October 1, 2025
  • Questions Remain After Trump's Renewed Call For Tariffs on Foreign-Made Films
    By: Spectrum 1 News – September 30, 2025
  • Why India’s Marriage Market Punishes Working Women
    By: Basis Point – October 1, 2025

Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee
Emiliano Lopez Barrera,
Texas A&M University

A USDA Trade Report No Longer Explains its Data. Now Economists Are Raising Transparency Concerns

By: KCUR – September 18, 2025

“Change has raised concerns about transparency and the loss of expert interpretation that helped make sense of complex trade dynamics.”

“Change is more of an inconvenience… I acknowledge the value added of the complimenting written portion. But personally for me, it’s not a huge harm.”

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Read more on: KCUR or Iowa Public Radio


Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee

Tennessee Farmers Warn of ‘Crisis Not Seen in Decades’ as Lawmaker Asks Trump For Relief

By: WKRN – October 1, 2025 

“Farmers would much rather a more stable trading environment and a more stable global market than the type of uncertainty we are seeing today in the likelihood of bailouts. Tariffs may eventually yield better trade terms but cautioned that not every farm will survive long enough to see those benefits.”

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Read more on: WKRN


Shawn Arita, North Dakota State University
Joana Colussi,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Ortega,
Michigan State University

Loss of China Soybean Market Hits Chicago Fed District Hard

By: The Fence Post – October 1, 2025

“That overall U.S. agricultural exports to China are down 53%. And while the Seventh District states are hit hard, North Dakota soybean producers are really fearful because the state is even more dependent on soybean exports to China, shipping them through West Coast ports.”

“Brazilian agriculture has become much more productive in recent years due to the expansion of land and to better yields. There are 70 million acres of pasture land that could be converted to soybean production. Brazil has also increased corn production, but its corn yields are only about half those in the United States. Brazil has traditionally made ethanol from sugar but is increasingly using corn as the base for ethanol production.”

“China is becoming less reliant on U.S. agricultural products,. While it is importing from other countries, particularly Brazil and Argentina, China is also investing significant amounts of dollars in public research and development while the United States has reduced public investment in agriculture.”

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Read more on: The Fence Post


Charles Martinez, University of Tennessee

East Tennessee farmer focusing on his cattle while soybeans sales struggle

By: WBIR – October 1, 2025

“The beef industry is complex, and some are doing well. If you look down the supply chains to the cow-calf producer, there are folks that are probably making some of the best profits that they've seen in a long time, because of this demand and short supply of feeder cattle."

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Read more on: WBIR or RFDTV


Aaron Smith, University of California, Berkeley

How a California Clean Energy Program Became a Boon for Big Dairies

By: Sentient Media – October 1, 2025

“No other fuel in the program gets credit in that way. Landfills can also generate biogas, but they do not get credit for avoiding methane emissions because the baseline is that you would have had some other way of stopping the methane.”

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Read more on: Sentient Media

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