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Category: Agriculture
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An ERS updata (USDA expects ‘significant delays’ in economic research reports): Mass attrition at the Economic Research Service as a result of USDA’s decision to move the agency out of Washington will lead to “significant delays” in vital research reports, according to an internal document provided to POLITICO. The memo, which was drafted by department…
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The beatings will continue until morale improves (update): Economists in the Agriculture Department's research branch say the Trump administration is retaliating against them for publishing reports that shed negative light on White House policies, spurring an exodus that included six of them quitting the department on a single day in late April. The Economic Research…
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From Politico: “In USDA, we want good scientific discovery,” [USDA Secretary Sonny] Perdue said, when asked about the mandated research-disclosure language. “We want peer-based evidence there. We know that research, some has been found in the past to not have been adequately peer-reviewed in a way that created wrong information, and we’re very serious when…
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Following the political dominoes of international trade policy can be mind-boggling, but the basic economic principles can be simple. A tariff placed on U.S. products by another country (like meat, cheese, and soy beans) will reduce the amount (supply) of U.S. meat, cheese, and soy beans sold in other countries, and increase the amount of…
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The Legislature of the State of Ohio is currently considering legislation to reduce Phosphorous loadings into Lake Erie by 40%. This is a good thing, as reducing Phosphorous going into Lake Erie will reduce the incidence and impact of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Western Lake Erie Basin. The proposed legislation establishes a Clean Lake…
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The Congressional Budget Office has prepared its first estimates of direct expenditures and revenues from H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018; AKA the Farm Bill. It looks like the conservation title (Title II) might take some hits. The Conservation Reserve Program is proposed to be scaled back, and the Conservation Stewardship Program is…
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We're working on PhD recruitment this week (if you applied to OSU AEDE and were accepted, join us, we're FUN!). I put together a Google map with our PhD placements since 2007. A bit scary that I might be influencing thinking for this many people and this wide an area.
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It looks like there is more cropland available for food production worldwide than we previously thought. A lot more…at lease according to the US Geological Survey: There’s more agricultural land in the world than previously thought, and India rather than the U.S. or China is now believed to have the biggest acreage of any country,…
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Just got around to reading the Hsiang et al piece in Science on the inequitable economics impacts of climate change. Here's the abstract: Estimates of climate change damage are central to the design of climate policies. Here, we develop a flexible architecture for computing damages that integrates climate science, econometric analyses, and process models. We…
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Potential Econ 101 Exam Question: Suppose the supply of lower-wage workers suddenly decreases. a) What is the effect on wages and employment in sectors dependent on lower-wage workers? b) What is the effect in output markets dependent on employment of input markets that employ lower-wage workers? In your answer please use basic supply and…
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