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An essay by Tristan Brown, Dermot Hayes, and Robert Brown has been selected as a winner in the Farm Foundation's 30-Year Challenge Policy Competition. The essay, "The Embedded Carbon Valuation System: A Policy Concept to Address Climate Change," shared top honors in the climate change category. The competition "sought innovative and promising public policy options to address …agriculture and food system challenges." Tristan Brown is a research associate and Dermot Hayes is a professor, Department of Economics and CARD. Robert Brown is a professor in the Department of Biomechanical Engineering and director of the Bioeconomy Institute. The essay and additional information is available at the Farm Foundation Web site. ...read more
Dermot Hayes highlighted recent research on the economics of biofuels production at a September 3 visit to the Iowa State University BioCentury Research Farm by two top officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ...read more
The Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) is anticipating research activity needs in agricultural trade and policy and is recruiting two post-doc researchers. ...read more
Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) has received three grants of $200,000 each from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to assess the feasibility of water quality trading programs in three watersheds located within the Upper Mississippi River Basin. ...read more
WASHINGTON--After dramatic increases in the prices of most commodities in the last three years, prices retreat in 2009/10, but growing demand for food, feed, and fuel is expected to return them to historically high levels over the rest of the decade, according to analysts with the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), who briefed Congress this week on their 2009 agricultural economic baseline projections. ...read more
Dermot J. Hayes has been invited to join the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee, jointly administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Energy. The appointment is for three years. ...read more
The Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center (MATRIC) at Iowa State University has published a book on using distillers grains, a co-product of biofuels production, as a feedstuff for livestock and poultry. The book is only available online at http://www.matric.iastate.edu/DGbook and is free for downloading. ...read more