(From Jackie King's daily E-Media recap, ISU News Service.)

• CARD Director Bruce Babcock had several media contacts recently: Phil Brasher, Des Moines Register, about limits on direct payments; Tom Gjelten, NPR, on food prices; Tom Ryan, CBS News Radio (New York City), on a World Bank report about food prices; and Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, on crop insurance and farm subsidies.
• Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, also had several contacts: Ed Clark, Top Producer, on crop storage capacity growth; Aaron Adelson, KCAU-TV (Sioux City), on food prices and their links to commodity prices; and a reporter from Lee Newspapers on agriculture, free trade agreements, and export values. He also spoke with Tim Hoskins of Iowa Farmer Today about grain marketing for the upcoming growing season and whether farmers might plant shorter-season hybrids..