Cornhusker Economics Newsletter

A weekly newsletter with current research and reports from various faculty and staff associated with the Department of Agricultural Economics. Includes weekly markets. Current and past issues can be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat.

2010 Issues

• Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers by Dave Goeller (2-3-10)
• The U.S. Import of Beef: Friend or Foe to Domestic Beef Production? by Sunil P. Dhoubhadel and Matt Stockton (1-27-10)
• Risk Management Challenges and Opportunities in 2010 by H. Douglas Jose (1-20-10)
• Two and a Half Cheers for the Midwestern Bourgeoisie:  Role of the Virtues in Tempering Business Decisionsby Marianna Khachaturyan and Gary Lynne (1-13-10)
• Science and Climate Change Debacle by Ray Supalla (1-6-10)

2009 Issues

• DNR Proposes Three Republican River Dry-Year Options by J. David Aiken (12-16-09)
• Baby Boomers:  Will They Be Moving to Rural Nebraska?   by Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel (12-9-09)
• Measuring the Performance of Cooperative Equity Redemption Plans by Jeffrey S. Royer (12-2-09)
• Markets Only (11-25-09)
• Using Economics Experiments to Understand Patent Licensing Behavior by Rita Abdelnour and Emie Yiannaka (11-18-09)
• NxBizSuccess: An Online Business Tool by Marilyn Schlake and Tonia Franklin (11-11-09)
• New 2010 Crop Enterprise Budgets by Roger Wilson and Matt Stockton (11-4-09)
• Defining and Measuring Poverty in Nebraska by Randy Cantrell (10-28-09)
• Managing Financial Stress by Dave Goeller (10-21-09)
• Looming Changes in the Energy Economy by Richard Perrin and Adam Liska (10-14-09)
• Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board Ballot Issue Two by J. David Aiken (10-7-09)
• Nebraska to Modity NRD Dry Year Plans?   by J. David Aiken (9-30-09)
• Market and Welfare Effects of MandatoryCountry-Of-Origin Labeling in the Specialty Crops Sector By Alejandro Plastina and Konstantinos Giannakes (9-23-09)
• Price Discovery in Nebraska Cash Cattle Markets by Matt Stockton and Roger Wilson
• Agricultural Property and property Taxation by Bruce Johnson (9-9-09)
• California Animal Welfare Initiative Proposition Two by J. David Aiken (9-2-09)
• Three Counties Saw the Majority of Nebraska’s Housing Growth 2007 – 2008 by Randy Cantrell (8-26-09)
• Nebraska Republican River Policy Choices by J. David Aiken (8-19-09)
• The Myth of the Rational Market: Nudging Each Other Away from Fool’s Gold by Gary Lynne (8-12-09) (Revised 8/17)
  
• Nebraska Wins First Round in Republican River Dispute by J David Aiken (8-5-09)
• Making an ACRE Decision for 2009 by Bradley Lubben (7-29-09)
• High Plains Ag Lab Rotations Show Fallow Still Works in Western Nebraska by Paul Burgener (7-22-09)
• Margin Requirement Impacts on Live Cattle Futures Hedges by Yi Liu and Darrell Mark (7-15-09)
• New Ratios for Measuring Farm Success by Tina Barrett (7-8-09)
• Energy Issues in 2009 Unicameral by J. David Aiken (7-1-09)
• Agricultural Economics: The Year in Review by Alan Baquet (6-24-09)
• Reflections on the Effects of Commodity Price Increases on Economic Development in Africa by E. Wesley F. Peterson and Kepifri Lakoh (6-17-09)
• Nebraska Leads in Irrigated Land by Bruce Johnson and Ryan Lukassen (6-10-09)
• Weather Derivatives as a Potential Risk Management Tool for Irrigators by Raymond Supalla, Chris Thompson, and Brooks Neely (6-3-09)
• Evaluating the EDGE: What are the Impacts? by Marilyn Schlake
• North Central Risk Management Education Center by Cheryl Griffith (5-20-09)
• Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste by Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel (5-13-09)
• Nebraska NAMA Big XII Champs! Karoline Kastanek and Rosalee Swartz (5-6-09)
• Who Suffers Most when Disease Outbreaks and Food Recalls Happen? The Case of Mad Cow Disease in the United States  by Sunil P. Dhoubhadel and Matt Stockton (4-29-09)
• NRD Plans for “Not-Quite” Fully-Appropriated Basin s  J. David Aiken, (4-22-09)
• Not Fully-Appropriated Basins Subject to New Restrictions by J. David Aiken (4-15-09)
• Has the Ethanol Industry Impacted Nebraska Land Values? Ben Blomendahl and Bruce Johnson (4-8-09)
• Grain Storage Costs and Rental Rates by Ross Miller and H. Douglas Jose (4-1-09)
• Nebraska Farmland Markets Plateau by Bruce Johnson and Ryan Lukassen (3-25-09)
• Economy Hard on Beef and Pork Demand by Darrell Mark (3-19-09)
• Analyzing ACRE by Brad Lubben (3-11-09)
• Cultivating Dreams - Harvesting Profits, Women In Agriculture 2009 by Megan Voss, Paige Bek and Maggie Holub (3-4-09)
• Optimism of Rural Nebraskans  by Rebecca Vogt (2-25-09)
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by Tina Barrett (2-18-09)
• Is Corn Ethanol Economically Viable in the Long Run? by Richard Perrin (2-11-09)
• Using Nebraska’s Beginning Farmer Tax Credit Program by Dave Goeller (2-4-09)
• Variation of Environmental Regulation Stringency Among the Top Ten U.S. Hog Producing States by Gibson Nene and Karina Schoengold (1/28/09)
• Landowner Wind Energy Associations by J. David Aiken (1-21-09) 
  
• Empathy Conditioned Conservation: “Walking-in-the-Shoes-of-Others” as a Conservation Farmer by Robert Sheeder and Gary Lynne (1-14-09) 
  
• The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006:The 2009 United States Global Warming Act? by J. David Aiken (1-7-09)
  

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