Members in the News: July 27, 2026

Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology “Climate Policy Needs Carbon Pricing, Not Just Green Subsidies” By: Basis Point Insight -  July 20, 2026  “Fighting climate change is difficult because it is a global problem that requires coordinated action across countries, industries, and individuals with differing interests and priorities. The benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions are often long-term and widely shared, while the costs of mitigation are immediate and concentrated on specific sectors and communities.” (Continued...) Read more on: Basis Point Insight Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell University “Heat Stress Hits Dairy Quality as Well as Quantity, Study Finds” By: Sentient Media – July 20, 2026 “This matters to the dairy industry because farmers get paid not by the overall weight or volume, but are instead priced using a formula that takes those nutritional components into account. As climate change increases the intensity and duration of heat events, industrial dairies with more capital tend to be better equipped to handle the added strain on their margins.” (Continued...) Read more on: Sentient Media Simon Somogyi, Texas A&M University Yong Liu, Texas A&M University Weifang Liang, Texas A&M University “Expect Stable Meat Prices This Summer” By: National Hog Farmer – July 21, 2026 “Now with New World screwworm, that’s going to cause issues that we haven’t seen yet. We could see higher prices without those historically steady imports from Mexico.” (Continued...) Read more on: National Hog Farmer Brian Roe, The Ohio State University “Weight Loss Drugs Are Leading to Less Spending at Ohio Restaurants, OSU Study Finds” By: WOSU – July 23, 2026  “We found that consumers, once they started the medication, were cutting back in terms of their dine-out experience. We found, for example, about $37 less spending per week on dining out among current users of the drugs than those who were former users of the drug. And most of them said that their spending went down by more than 10% after they started their medication.” (Continued...) Read more on: WOSU Taejun Mo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Self-Driving Trucks Could Upend America’s Freight Economy” By: Earth.com – July 23, 2026 “Self-driving technology has great potential to rewrite the economic geography of the U.S., which in and of itself will create new winners and losers… If a certain geographic area were a major transportation hub in the days before autonomous trucking, it’s possible that it would not be a major hub in the future.” (Continued...) Read more on: Earth.com Becca Weir, Pennsylvania State University Barry Ward, The Ohio State University “Financial Health of American Farms Strained' By Many Factors” By: Allied News – June 23, 2026 "It's challenging to make high-level generalizations about the farm economy because each region and agricultural sector faces different challenges. Our current market conditions could change quickly with adverse weather during the remaining crop production season or an intensified livestock disease outbreak. At the moment, the overall financial health of American farms is strained." “The biggest risks often come from weather or climate patterns. We look at the last 100 years; margin and profitability have always been central in farmers' minds, and part of that has to do with weather, especially in crop production and indirectly, livestock production.” (Continued...) Read more on: Allied News Do you have international, national, state or local news to share? Submit your 'Members in the News' now!