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In a May 7 hearing on fuel subsidies and their impact on food prices called by the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Bruce Babcock, professor of economics and director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University, told senators that changes in federal biofuels policies now will not have a dramatic effect on food prices in the short term. ...read more
Bruce Babcock, professor of economics at Iowa State University and director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, will appear before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs May 7 in a hearing on fuel subsidies and their impacts on food prices.
Babcock's testimony will focus on federal ethanol policies and their short- and long-term impacts on the price and availability of ethanol, corn, and other agricultural products.
The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. ...read more
WASHINGTON — Continuing high crude-oil prices and new bioenergy mandates, such as the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, are expected to sustain prices at historic highs across all agricultural commodities over the next decade. This is according to analysts with the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, or FAPRI, who briefed Congress this week on their new 10-year projections for U.S. and international commodity markets. ...read more
Recreationists, policymakers, and community leaders can find a resource for decisions about lakes water quality improvement at the Iowa Lakes Valuation Project Web site, redesigned and relaunched this month at www.card.iastate.edu/lakes/. ...read more
Jacinto F. Fabiosa, co-director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute in the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University, has been named a Fulbright Scholar to conduct research at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. ...read more
How have existing on-farm conservation efforts affected Iowa's water quality and what value do they have? ...read more
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has published "The Soil and Water Assessment Tool: Developmental History, Applications, and Future Research Directions" 
in Transactions of the ASABE as an inaugural paper in a new invited paper series established by the ASABE Soil and Water Division. ...read more
Several Iowa State University economics faculty, researchers, and students received awards and honors at the 2007 Joint Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA), the Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA), and the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES) held in Portland, Oregon, July 29-August 1. ...read more