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January 30-31: Why have food prices shot up so fast? Colorado State University Ag and Resource Economics Professor Dawn Thilmany says it’s due in large part to higher labor costs.
January 29: University of Illinois Extension Farm Management Specialist Gary Schnitkey told attendees at the recent Purdue Top Farmer Conference that farm profitability in the next 10
years will depend heavily on how well farmers can control costs.
January 28: More than 150 Nobel Prize and World Food Prize winners have issued a letter urging the global community to address what the group sees as a lack of progress in the fight
against hunger around the world.
January 27: During a recent webinar sponsored by the National Ag Law Center, Hunt Shipman, principal and director at Cornerstone Government Affairs in Washington, D.C., shared his
expectations for the potential impact on ag law and policy from the last election
January 22-24: During a recent presentation by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture), Dr. Brian Roe of the Ohio State University
provided an overview of the Food Loss and Waste Consumer Education Campaign Pilot.
January 21: The battle against opioid abuse in rural America from the perspective of Megan Meacham, Director of Rural Initiatives in the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, as she
participated in a recent panel discussion.
January 20: Outgoing U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack shares some thoughts as he turns the reigns over to a new administration.
January 15-17: At the recent South Dakota Farmers Union convention, independent ag economist Matt Roberts (The Kernmantle Group, Worthington, Ohio) gave a talk titled Surviving
and Thriving in This Crazy World. The gist of it: as income/wealth levels rise globally, U.S. farmers will benefit economically.
January 13-14: While federal legislation was passed in 2021 and funded ($42.5 billion) to facilitate broadband access to unserved and underserved areas of the U.S., the process has been
slow in getting actual projects started. The nonprofit Connected Nation’s Chairman and CEO, Tom Ferree, says most states still have to submit final plans for projects to begin.
January 10: Nate Salpeter, co-founder and general partner of SNOCAP, a venture capital fund that invests in climate tech platforms, sees the carbon marketplace as volatile at the
moment. He also suggests that companies that rely heavily on the premise of these carbon markets may not be a good investment, unless they can survive without that connection.
January 9: U.S. Department of Agriculture livestock analyst Michael McConnell says pork producers had a pretty good year in 2024 and next year is shaping up to be more of the same.
