Renewable Energy Report: June 2008 Newsletter

This is the first issue of a monthly newsletter focusing on renewable energy and U.S. agriculture. The newsletter is free of charge. The newsletter will provide information and analysis from agricultural economists and others on current issues facing the emerging renewable energy industry. We hope you will find the newsletter...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter June 2008 Don Hofstrand Co-director, Ag Marketing Resource Center Iowa State University Extension dhof@iastate.edu U.S. agriculture is going through one of the biggest changes in the last 100 years. Essentially, it is changing from a “surplus” production capacity industry to a “deficit” production capacity industry. This...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter June 2008 Robert Wisner Professor of Economics and Energy Economist Ag Marketing Resource Center, Iowa State University rwwisner@iastate.edu 515-294-6310 U.S. food prices, while still a bargain when compared to other countries, have increased in recent months at the fastest rate in 17 years. In the international...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter June 2008 Eugene Takle Professor of Atmospheric Science and Professor of Agricultural Meteorology 515-294-9871 gstakle@iastate.edu Don Hofstrand Value-added agriculture specialist Co-director AgMRC Iowa State University Extension 641-423-0844 dhof@iastate.edu (First in a series) This series of articles will focus on global warming, the science behind it and...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter June 2008 By Jason Henderson Assistant Vice President and Omaha Branch Executive Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Retail food prices surged in 2007, posting their highest gains in almost two decades. Robust food demand, record high crop prices, and accelerating costs for labor and energy...