Information courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service.
Ron Deiter was interviewed by Codi Vallery-Mills of The Cattle Business Weekly regarding the career potential available to students who obtain an agribusiness degree.
Bruce Babcock spoke with Jim Offner of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier about elimination of the ethanol subsidy and estimated job impacts. Anna Petherick, a writer with a UK academic journal called Good Nature, called about a recent CARD Policy Brief regarding ethanol subsidies and corn prices. Peter Green, a reporter with Bloomberg News, interviewed Babcock about the effect that feeding China's growing middle class will have on the U.S., especially on producing more water-thirsty crops.
Babcock also spoke to Peter Green, a reporter with Bloomberg News about the effect on U.S. agriculture of feeding China's growing middle class, especially on producing more water-thirsty crops.
Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, spoke with John Pocock of Corn and Soybean Digest about crop plantings and markets. He talked to Frank Zaworski, ICIS, about crop plantings and fertilizer applications. And he was interviewed by Bruce Gellerman of the Living on Earth radio program about crop and food prices.
Dave Swenson spoke with Lynn Hicks, executive business editor of The Des Moines Register, regarding a new U.S. News & World Report ranking showing Des Moines first among the 10 cities with the highest real incomes.
