- Hart spoke with Kris Bevill of Ethanol Producer magazine about DDG production and the amount of DDGs derived from a bushel of corn. He spoke with Scott Kilman of the Wall Street Journal about Chinese corn acreage. And he spoke with Chelsea Bailey of the CNN Wire Staff about the potential heat wave and the possible impact on corn production and prices.
- Hart talked to several reporters on July 6th: Greg Forbes, Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, about crop prices; Whitney McFerran, Bloomberg, about the fall out from last week’s USDA reports; Bethany Pint, Iowa Farm Bureau Spokesman, about crop markets and the outlook before USDA’s next round of reports; Emily Horner, IowaWatch.org, about ethanol policy and the possible impact of the loss of the ethanol tax credit. Diana Huynh, Freakonomics Radio, about USDA crop projections and the effects they have on the agricultural and general economy; and Qinduo Xu and Brandon Blackburn-Dwyer, Today (a radio program for China Radio International), about food prices and the global economy.
- Hart taped the "Commodity Week" with Todd Gleason of the University of Illinois. He talked about the latest USDA reports (acreage and grain stocks) and the condition of the Iowa corn crop.
- Bruce Babcock spoke to a reporter with CBS News about the drought in the southern U.S. and the effects on the cattle industry and prices.
- Babcock featured in ABC news story on the impact of the Southern drought on farmers.http://mms.tveyes.com/NetReport.aspx?ReportHash=7c52cc1c4038d698b3bce068e5b4363a
- Babcock featured in the story on prolonged drought leaving 14 states parched, New York Times, NY , 07-12-11, Also ran: Boston Globe, MA; http://www.public.iastate.edu/~nscentral/mr/11/0715/parched.html
Information courtesy of Jackie King, ISU News Service.
