Information courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service.

• Research from CARD was featured in a June 13 Senate debate on ethanol/biofuel funding. Broadcast media clips available at: http://www.criticalmention.com/report/7809x220544.htm#
• James Bushnell, associate professor of economics and director of the Biobased Industry Center, and Bruce Babcock, professor of economics and director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, spoke with Mark Clayton, a reporter with the Christian science Monitor, regarding ethanol tax credits.
• ReCap's Liesl Eathington was interviewed last week by Donnelle Eller, a business reporter with The Des Moines Register for a story on women-owned businesses in Iowa.
• Chad Hart, assistant professor of economics and grain markets specialist, was interviewed by Sue Danielson of WHO Radio Friday about the impact on agriculture of the Missouri River floods.
• Dave Swenson, associate scientist, economics, was interviewed by WHO-AM’s Danielson about decreasing household debt levels, and the implications of that on economic recovery.
• Swenson also appeared on Trent Rice’s, KASI talk show discussing the overall slow pace of the national economic recovery and the political ramifications for President Obama. Swenson was also interviewed by Dirck Steimel of the Farm Bureau Spokesman about the Iowa leading indicators that show strong performance.  Steimel wanted to know how important improved farm income was for the Iowa economy.
• Swenson was also interviewed by Richard Lee, a news anchor for WHO Radio/Iowa Radio Network/Clear Channel News. Lee was looking to interview an expert who can comment on whether the rural flooding in southwest Iowa will just accelerate the process of smaller towns there "drying up", so to speak, such as Hamburg.
• Scott Kilman of the Wall Street Journal and Frank Morris of KCUR who was doing a report for NPR called CARD Director Bruce Babcock for a comment on the Senate's vote Thursday to kill the ethanol subsidy. Kilman wanted to know what kind of effect the loss of the subsidy would have on ethanol production.
• Angie Hunt, Ames correspondent KCCI-TV, contacted News Service seeking assistance arranging an interview with Chad Hart, an assistant professor of economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, to discuss the Senate vote to eliminate ethanol subsidies and the impacts on the industry and Iowa. Dave Swenson was also interviewed earlier in the day by Hunt on the topic. Jackie Schmid, a reporter with KGAN, also interviewed Swenson about the topic.