Several CARD researchers, including Giancarlo Moschini, David Hennessy, Katherine Harris-Lagoudakis, Hongli Feng, Rabail Chandio, Alejandro Plastina, and T. Jake Smith, presented research findings at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2024 Annual Meeting, which was held July 27-30 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Professor GianCarlo Moschini organized and moderated the track session "Market Power in the Cattle and Beef Packing Industry," which included presentations from Yuliya Bolotova, Rich Sexton, CARD Postdoctoral Research Associate T. Jake Smith, and Jim MacDonald. During this session, Smith spoke on "Spatial Competition and Market Power in the US Beef Packing Industry." In April, Smith had been announced as the recipient of AAEA's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Smith was nominated for his dissertation "Agricultural Production in the 21st Century: Technology Adoption, Adaptation, and Market Power" for which he also won the CARD Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Agricultural, Environmental, and Energy Economics and Policy.

Assistant Professor Katherine Harris-Lagoudakis organized and moderated the track session "Networking for Junior Women in Agricultural and Applied Economics." She also organized the track session "SNAP Benefit Cycles, the EBT Authorized Retail Landscape and Dietary Quality," in which she presented the paper "In-Kind Benefits and Behavioral Demand." Harris-Lagoudakis also served as a discussant in the invited paper session "Leveraging Multiple-Data Sources and Methods to Better Inform Food Policies and Market Strategies." Hanna Wich, a former student of Harris-Lagoudakis won the Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section Best Poster Award for her job market paper "Liquidity Constraints and Buying in Bulk: Does SNAP Adoption Increase Bulk Purchases?"

Assistant Professor Hongli Feng organized the track session "Theoretical and Econometric Models of Subsidized Crop Insurance."

Associate Professor Alejandro Plastina presented "Net Returns to Carbon Farming" in the AAEA in Extension track session.

Jingyi Tong, a PhD student in the Department of Economics, presented two papers, "Dynamic Land Use Impact of Crop Insurance Subsidies in the US Corn Belt: A Grid-Level Analysis," which she authored with Professor David Hennessy and Chaoqun Lu. Tong also presented "Institutional Land Ownership and Conservation Practice Adoption in the US Midwest," which was authored with Otavio Bartalotti and CARD Faculty Collaborator Wendong Zhang.

Assistant Professor Rabail Chandio presented a poster for her project "Farm Ownership Regulations and Size Distribution" and had a co-author present another poster for "Herding in the WASDE."

Matthew Stuart, formerly of Iowa State Univeristy's Statistics Department, now at Loyola University, presented the poster "The Impact of Stocks on Correlations between Crop Yields and Prices and on Revenue Insurance Premiums using Semiparametric Quantile Regression," which was authored with Cindy Yu and Professor David Hennessy.

Xuche Gong, a PhD Student in the Department of Economics, Professor David Hennessy, and Assistant Professor Hongli Feng also won the Best Paper Award presented by the Applied Risk Analysis Section. A news brief about that is available here.