Plastina media interviews, presentations

October 2, 2017

Alejandro Plastina, assistant professor did several recent interviews:

  1. Associated Press in Nebraska about the impact of a slow farm income economy on the state budget
  2. Des Moines Register on farm financial stress in Iowa. Article to appear in early October
  3. Farm Journal Media in Missouri on the outlook for farmland cash rents for the October LandOwner Newsletter
  4. Miami Herald on the stagnant farm economy

Plastina made the following presentations:

  1. Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation Seminar - Thurs., September 21, Ames, “A Look at the Current Agricultural Economic Climate: Farm financial stress in Iowa”
  2. 2017 ISU Crops Team Fall In-Service. Wed., September 20, “Cover crop budgets”

He will also make a presentation on the Financial stress of Iowa farms at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, during the annual meeting of NC-1177 Multi-state Research Project on Agricultural and Rural Finance Markets in Transition.