Podcasts about agricultural economics department

On this week's episode of the Agronomy and Farm Management Podcast, Bruce and Josh talk with Michael Langemeier, Director of Cropping Systems for the Center for Commercial Agriculture in the Department of Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University. In this episode, Michael talks about his recent work, “The 2024-2025 Financial Downturn: Who is The Most […]

Oklahoma State University's Agricultural Economics Department recently hosted the Rural Economic Outlook Conference. John Michael Riley, an associate professor in the Economics Department, talked about recent days in the grain markets.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Brian Briggeman, professor in the Agricultural Economics Department at K-State and Director of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center, joins us again to provide a macroeconomic update. We discussed trends with interest rates and inflation through 2023, potential for a recession, the state of the labor market, and how all of this relates back to agriculture. 

GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT Informe de políticas alimentarias mundiales 2023: Repensar las respuestas a las crisis alimentarias Latin America & Caribbean Discussion of IFPRI's 2023 Global Food Policy Report: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses JUN 21, 2023 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EDT Lo invitamos a unirse a nosotros en el evento de lanzamiento virtual para LAC, donde los oradores arrojarán luz sobre los hallazgos significativos del informe 2023 desde una perspectiva regional. En 2022, el mundo se enfrentó a múltiples crisis. Continuaron las perturbaciones de los sistemas alimentarios debidas a la prolongada pandemia de COVID-19, las grandes catástrofes naturales, los disturbios civiles y la inestabilidad política, así como los crecientes efectos del cambio climático, mientras la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania y la inflación agravaban una crisis mundial de alimentos y fertilizantes. El creciente número de crisis, su impacto cada vez mayor y el aumento del número de personas hambrientas y desplazadas han galvanizado los llamamientos para replantear las respuestas a las crisis alimentarias, creando así una verdadera oportunidad para el cambio. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ We invite you to join us at the virtual launch event for LAC, where speakers will shed light on the significant findings of the 2023 report from a regional perspective. In 2022, the world faced multiple crises. Disruptions to food systems from the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, major natural disasters, civil unrest and political instability, and the growing impacts of climate change continued, as the Russia-Ukraine war and inflation exacerbated a global food and fertilizer crisis. The growing number of crises, their increasing impact, and rising numbers of hungry and displaced people have galvanized calls to rethink responses to food crises, creating a real opportunity for change. Welcome Remarks Valeria Piñeiro, Acting Head of the Latin American region & Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI Speakers Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, IICA Visiting Fellow, IFPRI Manuel Hernandez, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Rob Vos, Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions (MTI), IFPRI Panel Discussion Julio A. Berdegué, Research Professor, Agricultural Economics Department, Catholic University, Chile Gloria Abraham Peralta, Consultant, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Cecilia Lopez Montaño, President, CiSoe Closing Remarks Valeria Piñeiro, Acting Head of the Latin American region & Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI Moderator Valeria Piñeiro, Acting Head of the Latin American region & Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI More about this seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/informe-de-pol%C3%ADticas-alimentarias-mundiales-2023-repensar-las-respuestas-las-crisis Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription RELATED PUBLICATIONS Global Food Policy Report 2023: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses - https://www.ifpri.org/publication/global-food-policy-report-2023-rethinking-food-crisis-responses Global Food Policy Report 2023: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses: Synopsis - https://www.ifpri.org/publication/global-food-policy-report-2023-rethinking-food-crisis-responses-synopsis LINKS Global Food Policy Report Website - https://gfpr.ifpri.info/ 2023 Global Food Policy Report Global Launch Event - https://www.ifpri.org/event/global-launch-event-2023-global-food-policy-report-rethinking-food-crisis-responses

In this episode of the Broadband Bunch, we are joined by Dr. Roberto Gallardo, the Director of the Purdue Center for Regional Development, and an Associate Professor in the Agricultural Economics Department at the University of Purdue. Roberto is a renowned expert in the field of regional development, with a focus on the intersection of technology and economic development. He has spent his career studying the impact of technology on communities, particularly those in rural areas, and advocating for equitable access to broadband and other digital resources. One of Roberto's most significant contributions to this field has been his work on tracking the digital divide. He and his team at the Purdue Center for Regional Development have developed a powerful data-driven approach to measuring broadband availability and adoption at the local level. Click the link below to listen. Also, subscribe to the Broadband Bunch on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode. https://pcrd.purdue.edu

        Understanding Carbon Credits         Preparing Now to Celebrate Dairy Month 00:01:05 – Understanding Carbon Credits, Part One: We start today's show with a two-part conversation on carbon credits with post-doctoral fellow in the Agricultural Economics Department here at K-State, Micah Cameron Harp. Our first segment begins with the basics of what a carbon credit is, how they are utilized, and what it looks like to take advantage of the carbon market as an agricultural producer. 00:12:18 – Understanding Carbon Credits, Part Two: In part two, Micah shares insight on how credits are generated and the different factors that can impact producer return on investment in these programs. It's a newer market for agriculture and there is so much to learn! More information on Micah's website regarding carbon credits    00:23:08 – Preparing Now to Celebrate Dairy Month: K-State dairy specialist Mike Brouk encourages producers to start planning now for how they want to celebrate National Dairy Month in June. Also, information on the Kansas State University Animal Science Leadership Academy, a 4-day educational experience for students in grades 9-12, set for June 21st-24th in Manhattan.   Send comments, questions or requests for copies of past programs to ksrenews@ksu.edu. Agriculture Today is a daily program featuring Kansas State University agricultural specialists and other experts examining ag issues facing Kansas and the nation. It is hosted by Samantha Bennett and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily podcast.   K‑State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well‑being of Kansans. Supported by county, state, federal and private funds, the program has county Extension offices, experiment fields, area Extension offices and regional research centers statewide. Its headquarters is on the K‑State campus in Manhattan.  

In Nebraska, so many of us love the rural lifestyle, but it can present challenges for the provision of key services and infrastructure in those areas. Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel, a professor in UNL's Agricultural Economics Department and an Extension Specialist with Rural Prosperity Nebraska has a new article looking at some data about the more sparsely populate areas of the state, and what it means to live there. Read more at https://cap.unl.edu/rural/being-rural-nebraska-both-blessing-and-curse.

Information on the Farm Storage Facility Loan Program Unique Experiences Provided by K-State's Agricultural Economics Department BCI Experts Discuss When to Consider Selling Replacement Heifers   00:01:00 – Information on the Farm Storage Facility Loan Program: Kansas Farm Service Agency farm loan chief, Josh Ridder, shares information about the Farm Storage Facility Loan Program which can be utilized to help producers store, handle, and/or transport eligible commodities that they produce   00:12:00 – Unique Experiences Provided by K-State's Agricultural Economics Department: In the final installment of our departmental features in K-State's College of Agriculture, the director of undergraduate programs in the Agricultural Economics Department, Dr. Elizabeth Yeager, as well as two students, discuss the unique experiences they've had inside the classroom and abroad   00:23:00 – Beef Cattle Institute's Ask the Experts:  K-State experts Brad White, Bob Larson, and Dustin Pendell answer a listener's question regarding whether to sell replacement heifers when prices are high, such as they are now, or to hold on in anticipation of low cattle inventory next year   Send comments, questions or requests for copies of past programs to ksrenews@ksu.edu. Agriculture Today is a daily program featuring Kansas State University agricultural specialists and other experts examining ag issues facing Kansas and the nation. It is hosted by Samantha Bennett and distributed to radio stations throughout Kansas and as a daily podcast.   K‑State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well‑being of Kansans. Supported by county, state, federal and private funds, the program has county Extension offices, experiment fields, area Extension offices and regional research centers statewide. Its headquarters is on the K‑State campus in Manhattan.

Inflation is a hidden tax. It is a powerful and often unseen and unstoppable way for a government to pay for its goods and services without raising visible taxes that make people angry. Gas has skyrocketed. Since February, prices of fruits and vegetables have risen, and the index for meats, poultry, fish and eggs has also risen. Newt’s guest is Dr. Jayson Lusk, Distinguished Professor and Head of the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The webinar will discuss the opportunities, constraints, prospects and limitations of agroecology in Africa. It will explore exactly what agroecology is, the ongoing efforts to popularize it in Africa, the likely positive and negative impacts of its widespread adoption, and its intersection with modern agricultural methods, among other topics. Panelists include: Irene Egyir, an associate professor in the University of Ghana's Agricultural Economics Department; Nassib Mugwanya, a Ugandan agricultural communications specialist and PhD candidate at North Carolina State University; Bernard Guri, executive director of the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development, in Ghana; Pacifique Nshimiyimana, an agribusiness entrepreneur in Rwanda, and Charles Nyaaba, head of programs and advocacy for the Peasant Farmers Association. Moderator: Joseph Opoku Gakpo, a journalist from Ghana currently enrolled in a master's program at North Carolina State University.

Episode 118: Guillermo Donoso works at the Water Law and Economics Center and Agricultural Economics Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate students on Water Economics and Management and Natural Resource Economics. He specialises on water allocation, collective water management, urban water economics and policy, water use efficiencies. Prof Donoso also is a board member of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and a member of Stockholm's World Water Week's Scientific Programme Committee. He was Dean of the College of Agriculture and Forestry of the Catholic University of Chile between 1998 and 2007. Guillermo's research page: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9958-4787 Urban water pricing in Chile: cost recovery, affordability, and water conservation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310839417_Urban_water_pricing_in_Chile_cost_recovery_affordability_and_water_conservation_Urban_water_pricing_in_Chile Chilean water markets as a water allocation mechanism https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282158199_Chilean_Water_Rights_Markets_as_a_Water_Allocation_Mechanism Análisis Crítico de las Políticas Aplicadas en Latinoamérica en el Sector Agua y Saneamiento https://kysq.org/docs/Ana%CC%81lisis_cri%CC%81tico.pdf

Today we will talk about agriculture, farmworkers, and COVID-19 with Jayson Lusk and Alexis Guild.Alexis Guild has been with Farmworker Justice since 2011. In her role as Director of Health Policy and Programs, she coordinates FJ’s health promotion projects and health policy advocacy. She works with advocacy organizations, community/migrant health centers, farmworker community-based organizations, and legal services organizations to ensure health care access for farmworkers and their families across the United States. Alexis co-authored “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Implementation and Impact of the Affordable Care Act in U.S. Farmworker Communities” published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2016); and “The Neighbors who Feed Us: Farmworkers and Government Policy – Challenges and Solutions” published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review (2018).Jayson Lusk is a food and agricultural economist who studies what we eat and why we eat it. Since 2000, I’ve published more than 240 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on a wide assortment of topics ranging from the economics of animal welfare to consumer preferences for genetically modified food to the impacts of new technologies and policies on livestock and meat markets to analyzing the merits of new survey and experimental approaches eliciting consumer preferences. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor and Head of the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University.  He received a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University in 2000. 

Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, J.D. (Tiffany.DowellLashmet@ag.tamu.edu), Agricultural Law Specialist within Agricultural Economics Department with Texas A&M AgriLife system is guest.  She talks about ag lease, landowner liability, and estate planning.  Here are some additional links to topics discussed. https://nationalaglawcenter.org/ http://agecon.okstate.edu/farmtransitions/files/farm-transitions-workbook.pdf https://agrilife.org/texasaglaw/ https://aglaw.libsyn.com/

Fancy shoes and cheap prices. Chicken breasts and hormone myths. Food snobbery and the hungry. Healthy food and fat.  Cheap food and sustainability. “It’s really easy for us to look at a product that has a fancy name or claim and assign higher perceived value to it." Dr. Jayson Lusk is a distinguished professor and head of the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University. He studies what we eat and why we eat it, and the economics around food decisions. In today’s Food Bullying podcast, he offers insight on how claims, policies, and misperceptions can cost us all. Key points How labels change how we feel about a product and how we are willing to pay more for perceived value. What does an agricultural economist do? Food prices, farm production, international trade, supply and demand. We want to buy more than we can afford: what perceptions and factors explain what is on our plate Large chicken breasts, animal welfare and how prices are affected by regulations put in place. Slow growth or heritage breed chicken grow a lot slower, have negative environmental and cost consequences. The unintended consequence of food choices: how the things we can afford change as our income grows. The people that bear the brunt of food price policies are the lowest income consumers. Shopping with your wallet will help support lower prices for everybody. Consumers say they will do one thing and then shop entirely differently. If you make people make trade-offs you can little closer to the truth in studies with consumer groups. Perceptions around healthy food. FDA regulates the healthy claim, which has a lot to do with fat content. Does healthy or natural really mean what you think it does?  How the brain processes information about food and controversial food issues, such as cloned cows and cage-free eggs. Brain activation can predict what people are likely to choose in buying food. Decision making around food is not just emotional or rational – it’s both. Tips to overcome food bullying: price is a perfectly legitimate guide in shopping for food, pay attention to the sources of information, and don’t fear your food. Fabulous quotes “It’s really easy for us to look at a product that has a fancy name or claim and assign higher perceived value to it. “ “Let information empower and don’t be fearful of your food.” “It’s illegal to use growth hormones in broiler chickens.” “As our incomes grow, we see people eating differently than us. There’s maybe a little bit of snobbery…” “The motivation for some of these new policies are ‘people aren’t eating correctly or right.’ We forget that people have a lower income have an entirely different set of preferences.” “It’s O.K. to use price as a guide to shopping for food.” “By in large, info coming out from FDA, USDA and PhD scientists is more trustworthy.” “There’s a lot of guilt that gets tied up in what we eat. Let information empower you to not fear your food.” Links Blog: JaysonLusk.com Food Bullying: How to Avoid Buying BS by Michele Payn Embrace Your Heart with Eliz Greene Food Bullying Podcast’s Facebook page

Rural Health Leadership Radio is having a conversation about rural broadband service and economic development. We’re having that conversation with Dr. Brian Whitacre, professor and extension economist in the Agricultural Economics Department at Oklahoma State University. “I think it’s great to have that kind of a support system and I think there’s a lot of really good people working this area that are going to put a positive impact on rural in general.” ~Brian Whitacre Dr. Whitacre helps rural areas identify what they can do to improve their economic situation, which often revolves around health. Dr. Whitacre works in the general area of rural economic development, while also teaching an undergraduate course on the topic and working with small communities across Oklahoma to help improve their quality of life. “We want our rural facilities to have good broadband access available to them. So talk to local providers, talk to the local healthcare institutions about their connectivity needs and let’s find a way.” ~Brian Whitacre The majority of Dr. Whitacre’s recent work and research has focused on broadband and healthcare connectivity gaps in hospital and private care practices in rural areas. He has also conducted studies on the relationship between housing values and broadband, and continues to explore the significance and uses for broadband in rural healthcare. A link to the article discussed in this episode can also be found here. 

This week Inside INdiana Business Host Gerry Dick is joined by Jayson Lusk, Distinguished Professor and Head of the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University

How can we keep up-to-date on business research and strategy insights relating to food and agriculture? Listen here as Dr. Scott Downey, associate director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business and associate professor in the Agricultural Economics Department, explains exactly how with the Quarterly Review. In addition, learn how to access this great new resource, or even help out!

When Ken posed the question, 'what challenges face agriculture?' He got the same response from both Dr. Tahirou Abdoulaye and Tom McKinney: communicating the importance of biotechnology in agriculture. Tahirou and Tom were honored this year with Purdue Ag's Distinguished Alumni Award, and both hail from the Agricultural Economics Department. Despite unique positions and locations, they both agreed that this issue is important to the future of agriculture.