Ag Biotech Companies and Fighting World Hunger
According to research by Konstantinos Giannakas and Amalia Yiannaka, agricultural biotechnology companies can profit when they lower the price of genetic modification technologies in hunger-stricken areas.
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Crop Budgets
The 2019 Nebraska Crop Budgets include 78 crop production budgets for 15 crops as well as information on crop budgeting procedures, machinery operation and ownership costs, material and service prices, and a crop budget production cost summary. Glennis McClure, agricultural economics extension educator; Robert Klein, extension western Nebraska crops specialist; and Roger Wilson, retired farm management/enterprise budget analyst, led the development of the budgets.
Budgets
Crop Insurance and Moral Hazard
Research by Cory Walters, Taro Mieno, and Lilyan Fulginiti upends traditional thinking on crop insurance by using Actual Production History to examine producer input use.
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Farm Custom Rates
The 2018 Custom Rates Survey Results indicates some slight changes in rates for machinery operations and related services since the last survey two years ago. The survey of custom operators summarizes the current rates charged for specific machinery operations commonly used by agricultural producers. The survey was conducted by Glennis McClure and Jim Jansen.
Custom Rates
Nebraska Farm and Ranch Financial Stress
Department researchers surveyed Nebraska agriculture producers to determine characteristics that contribute to financial stress.
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Farm Real Estate Report
Final results from the Nebraska Farm Real Estate Survey show a fourth consecutive year of declining Nebraska agricultural land values. The statewide average value dropped 4 percent to $2,720 per acre. This is an 18 percent reduction since land values peaked in 2014. The report was authored by Jim Jansen and Jeff Stokes.
Report
Food Fraud
Syed Imran Ali Meerza and Christopher Gustafson tracked how an incident of fraudulent activity changed consumer behavior toward all extra-virgin olive oil brands.
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Livestock Production Value and Economic Impact
Glennis McClure and Brad Lubben estimated the direct economic impact of livestock production is $8.5 billion and the total impact of livestock production in Nebraska is $13.8 billion.
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Renewable Portfolio Standards and Green Energy Use
Karina Schoengold, Konstantinos Giannakas, and Ph.D. alumna Suparna Bhattacharya, now with the Public Utility Commission of Oregon, found that states where consumers value green power, implementation of a renewable portfolio standard for electricity production may lead consumers to voluntarily reduce their green energy use.
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Sweet Sorghum in Western Nebraska
Professors Richard Perrin and Lilyan Fulginiti, Ph.D. alumnus Subir Bairagi, and Ismail Dweikat, a professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, studied the possibility of ethanol produced from sweet sorghum raised in western Nebraska. Their research estimates that, under current conditions, such production would barely break even.
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