Posted on March 18, 2022
Background information for “Coming War for U.S. Crop Acres Renews Food-vs.-Fuel Debate”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 20, 2022
Annual acreage reports, National Agricultural Statistical Service
USDA Wheat Sector at a Glance, Economic Research Service
Congress champions biofuels and gasoline prices skyrocket, Growth Energy, March 10, 2022
Proposed ethanol volume standards, EPA
Food prices rise fastest […]
Posted on March 11, 2022
Background information for “Broken systems raise costs far faster than resilient ones”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, March 13, 2022
Lawrence Summers shares the blame for inflation, New York Times, Feb. 28, 2022
Keynesian Economics, Investopedia, April 30, 2020
The Laffer Curve, Investopedia, May 19, 2021
Posted on March 4, 2022
Background information for “Global Food Chains Face More Uncertainty, More Instability”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, March 6, 2022
How Russian invasion of “breadbasket” could hit supply chains, CNBC, Feb. 23, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like to ratchet up America’s food prices, Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2022
Russian invasion of Ukraine could send […]
Posted on February 24, 2022
Background information for “Land Values Face Trouble in Coming Decade”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, February 27, 2022
Rise in real estate values continues, Kansas City Federal Reserve, Feb. 10, 2022
Ag Letter, Chicago Federal Reserve, Feb. 2022
Cap rates and farmland values soar, agricultural economic insights, Feb. 21, 2022
USDA Agricultural Projections to 2031, USDA, […]
Posted on February 18, 2022
Background information for “Big Ethanol sees electric cars as a market maker, not a market taker”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, February 20, 2022
“Ethanol has been a boon to Iowa’s economy,” Des Moines (IA) Register, Feb. 13, 2022
Iowa is Addicted to Cornography, Christoper Jones, blog post, Feb. 11, 2022
A transformative climate action […]
Posted on February 11, 2022
Background information for “Smarm, Snarl, and Snark Can’t Replace Facts, Honesty, and Ideas”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, February 13, 2022
Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet, New York Times, Feb. 1, 2022
Sources of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, EPA, 2021
Global greenhouse gas emissions date, EPA
The number of cars in […]
Posted on February 2, 2022
Background information for “Making Pork Chops Flow Uphill”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, February 6, 2022
U.S. Beef Supply Chain: Issues and Challenges, Texas A&M University, June 2021
Concentration in the U.S. Pork Industry, National Pork Producers Council, Jan. 2022
Evidence for the Effects of Mergers on Market Power and Efficiency
Posted on January 26, 2022
Background information for “Getting MAD, Mutually Assured Digesters, Is Always a Bad Idea”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, January 30, 2022
Biden bill ignites debate over dairy digesters, Reuters, Jan. 11, 2022
The dairy digester dilemma, Center for Food Safety, Oct. 4, 2021
Livestock drinks up water in drought-stricken California, Comstock’s Magazine, Oct. 2016
Water […]
Posted on January 21, 2022
Background information for “The New Ag Alchemy: Gold from Gas”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, January 23, 2022
Carbon sequestration pipelines proposed in Iowa, Des Moines (IA) Register, Nov. 28, 2021
Public meeting on proposed carbon pipelines begin, Iowa Public Radio, Nov. 30, 2021
ADM proposed carbon pipeline, Successful Farming, Jan. 12, 2022
Summit Carbon Solutions
Navigator […]
Posted on January 21, 2022
Background information for “Keep Moving, Nothing to See Here”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, January 9, 2022
Report on the USDA Market Facilitation Program, Government Accountability Office, Nov. 2021
USDA Market Facilitation Program, GAO, Fast Facts, Dec. 20, 2021
Summary of GAO Report, Senate Ag Committee
The South hit the jackpot on MFP, The Counter, Dec. […]