Dr. Lee Schulz In the News
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed for a Dec. 18 The Neighbor story, "COVID-19 pandemic teaches livestock producers: Be prepared."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed for a Nov. 15 Missouri Farmer Today story, "Domestic meat demand remains strong."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed for an Oct. 16 Provisioner story, "The state of the workforce 2020: covid-19 catalyzes a reckoning."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed for a Sept. 5 Daily Nonpareil story, "Hog market struggles likely to continue in Q4."
Alejandro Plastina, associate professor, Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, and Chad Hart, professor, will present a webinar Aug. 25 to offer timely insight for the difficult issues facing Iowa farmland owners and tenants.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed for a July 15 Cleveland.com story, "Meat and poultry supplies no longer a serious concern, processors and grocers say."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed for a July 7, 2020 Clayton News-Daily story, "USDA report shows hog supply on the rise."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, had several recent media contacts:
Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network story, "Record U.S. hog inventory up 5 percent from last year," June 26.
On Monday, June 29th, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) and the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) are releasing a new paper, Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Food and Agricultural Markets. Lee Schulz, associate professor, was a contributing author to this paper.
A study by Lee Schulz, associate professor, was cited in a June 3 Beef story, "Beef industry outlook in post-COVID-19 world."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed for a May 15 Meat+Poultry story, "Meat prices expected to rise as supply continues to decrease."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, had several recent media contacts:
The ISU Office of Strategic Relations and Communications shared that recent media coverage featuring CALS experts is “massive” compared to past reports.
Lee Schulz
, associate professor, was interviewed on Iowa Public Radio, April 21:
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed for an April 14 Star Tribune story, "Sioux Falls plant closing is risk to pork supply, but plenty of others are open."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was interviewed in the April 5 Sioux City Journal story, "Foreign markets eager for U.S. pork, beef despite COVID-19-related travel cutbacks."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was quoted in a March 26 Des Moines Register story, "Panic buying — and hoarding — drive higher prices for eggs, milk and other staples."
A story by Associate Professor Lee Schulz, "Expected profits fuel pork expansion," was published in WallacesFarmer.com Jan. 9, 2020.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was quoted in a Dec. 31 St Louis Public Radio story, "For Beef And Pork Producers, 2019 Wasn't As Bad As It Could Have Been."
Lee Schulz and Chad Hart, associate professors, were interviewed on a video interview with Sonja Begemann of Farm Journal's Pork September 13, 2019.
Michaela Eden, incoming master student of ag economics at Kansas State University, is one of the students working this summer at Iowa State as a George Washington Carver Research Intern.
Chris Pudenz, graduate student, Lee Schulz, associate professor, and CJ Rademacher, recently had an article published in the Journal of Swine Health and Production.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, spoke at the Iowa Farm Bureau’s 2019 Economic Summit June 28, 2019, in Des Moines.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, appeared on the June 8th television program Market Journal, speaking on the impact of Market Facilitation Program (MFP) news on the cattle and pork markets.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, and econ graduate student Christopher Pudenz had an article, "Adoption of Secure Pork Supply Plan Biosecurity by U.S. Swine Producers," published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
A Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) report, The Impact of the 2018 Trade Disruptions on the Iowa Economy, has won the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was quoted in an April 25 story in the Brownfield Ag News.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was quoted in a Mary 28 Iowa Public Radio story about how the Missouri River flooding damaged not only farms, but the global supply chain.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, expects record U.S. production for beef, pork and poultry in his forecast for 2019.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, and Alejandro Plastina, assistant professor, were interviewed for an Dec. 14th Pilot-Tribune article on farm markets.
Chad Hart, associate professor, and Lee Schulz, associate professor, were quoted in the Nov. 21 Successful Farming article "10 Predictions for Farmers in 2019."
Lee Schulz, associate professor, was part of a delegation of Iowa pork producers and industry officials who traveled to Korea after spending several days in Japan on what’s being called a “meat mission.” Schulz was quoted in a Radio Iowa story Nov. 16, 2018.
Several department members will offer valuable insight on key factors impacting 2019 operating decisions at 12 Pro-Ag Outlook and Management Seminars to be held across the state in November and December.
Chad Hart, associate professor, Lee Schulz, associate professor, and Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, will speak at the Pro-Ag Outlook and Management Seminar Dec. 5, 2018.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, spoke at the USDA-ERS workshop "Challenges to Changing Antibiotic Use in Food Animal Production: Economics, Data, and Policy" at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. on Sept. 6-7, 2018.
Lee Schulz, associate professor, contributed an article on effects of beef prices on consumers in Wallaces Farmer Aug. 22, 2018.
Three assistant professors have been promoted to the rank of associate professor.
Kelly and Assistant Professor Lee Schulz are the proud parents of Myron Carter, born May 28 at 7:07 a.m. Myron, who joins big sister Isla, weighed in at 8 lb. 1.5 oz. and measured 21 in. long.
Lee Schulz, assistant professor, has been awarded the 2018 ISU Award for Early Achievement in Extension or Professional Practice.
Lee Schulz, assistant professor, has been awarded the prestigious 2018 Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program, Less than 10 Years Award by the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA).
John Crespi, professor, and Lee Schulz, assistant professor, were interviewed as experts for a U.S. Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters, "U.S.D.A. Additional Data Analysis Could Enhance Monitoring of U.S. Cattle Market" April 2018.
The farm loss projections of Lee Schulz, assistant professor, were cited in an April 3, 2018 story "Iowa's Hog Farmers are Facing Losses Thanks to Trump's Trade War" in Bloomberg.
Sebastien Pouliot, associate professor, and Lee Schulz, assistant professor, have been announced as recipients of a $361,234 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant. Pouliot is listed as project director and Schulz is listed as co-project director.
Lee Schulz, assistant professor, had an article published in the Jan. 5, 2018 issue of National Hog Farmer online.
Livestock producers who purchase feeder cattle or weaned pigs plus the feed, and then sell finished animals at a specific point in time, take on a significant amount of both input and output price risk.
A group of young professionals in USDA’s Economic Research Service took a four-day tour of Illinois and Iowa last week, including a visit to the ISU campus. Rich Nehring, a USDA-ERS agricultural economist from Washington D.C., organized the tour that started in Chicago.
Lee Schulz, assistant professor, was quoted in a National Hog Farmer story about the growth of the U.S. hog industry.
A new on-line journal, Journal of Applied Farm Economics, is being published by the Center for Commercial Agriculture at Purdue University.
Lee Schulz, assistant professor, was interviewed for a story in Successful Farming at Agriculture.com on projected profits for spring hog markets.