Information courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service.

• Jacinto Fabiosa, co-director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at Iowa State, talked to Scott Kilman of the Wall Street Journal about policy implications of the recently released FAPRI-ISU 2011 World Agricultural Outlook.
• CARD Director Bruce Babcock was interviewed for an AgriTalk broadcast about his latest Policy Brief, "The Impact of Ethanol and Ethanol Subsidies on Corn Prices: Revisiting History."
• Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, spoke with Dan Pillar of the Des Moines Register about the factors driving higher crop prices.
• Dave Senson, from  ISU’s Regional Economics and Community Analysis Program, was interviewed by Donnelle Eller, a business reporter with The Des Moines Register, who asked questions about interpreting the new state unemployment numbers and the relative performance of the Des Moines metro.

Links to the following articles can be found at:http://www.public.iastate.edu/~nscentral/mr/11/0415/0415.shtml

• Farm Subsidies: Sacred Cows No More, Wall Street Journal, NY , 04-08-11 (Chad Hart, Assistant Professor of Economics, Iowa State University)
• Farm Subsidies May Not Have Their Revenge In Washington,Reason Online, CA , 04-11-11 (Chad Hart, Assistant Professor of Economics, Iowa State University)
• Chicken companies feel the pinch as corn prices soar, Tasley Eastern Shore News, DE , 04-14-11 (Bruce Babcock, Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University)
• Vilsack: Jobs will be lost if ethanol subsidy ends, Des Moines Register, IA , 04-15-11 (Bruce Babcock, Professor of Economics, Iowa State University)