Information courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service.

• Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, spoke with Scott Kilman of the Wall Street Journal about the crop acreage outlook for 2011. He spoke with Alan Bell of GrowingPoint magazine about grain transportation infrastructure. He talked to Tom Polansek of the Dow Jones Newswire about alternatives to the ethanol tax credit and about crop acreage. And he spoke with a reporter from Reuters (Kris Debins?) about crop insurance and increasing production costs for crop producers.
• CARD scientist Jacinto Fabiosa spoke with Ben Theobald of the Iowa State Daily about how the disaster in Japan might affect the country's imports of U.S. agricultural products.
• CARD Director Bruce Babcock spoke with Philip Brasher of the Des Moines Register about USDA reports of farmers' planting intentions, and what the federal government can do if farmers don't grow enough acres to satisfy corn demand.
• Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, spoke with Bill Thompson of Dow Jones Newswire about the farm bill, specifically direct payments; with Andrew Johnson of Dow Jones about grain storage capacity and trends; and with John Pocock of Corn and Soybean Digest about rumored Chinese corn imports, and about the 2011 acreage battle.
• Jacinto Fabiosa, scientist at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, was interviewed by Virginie Robert, a New York correspondent for Les Echos, a French newspaper affiliated with the Financial Times, about the current recovery in the U.S. agricultural sector.
• Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, responded to many calls pertaining to USDA's release today of its stocks and acreage reports: Phillip Brasher, Des Moines Register; Bethany Pint, Iowa Farm Bureau Spokesman; Fran Howard, AgWeb.com; Larry Kershner, FarmNews; Dan Skelton, KICD radio; Scott Kilman, Wall Street Journal; Nick Nienhaus, Decorah Newspapers.