College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

News

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  Scanner data show beef and pork producers capture a larger share of retail sales

  Published on July 16, 2025
  Using retail scanner data in place of publicly available data to calculate farmers’ share of the retail dollar reveals farmers receive, on average, 9.0 and 3.1 percentage points more of retail beef and pork dollars, respectively.

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  MSU Institute of Public Utilities welcomes Erik Nordman as new director

  Published on July 11, 2025
  Nordman joins the Institute from Grand Valley State University, following a nationwide search.

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  A closer look at anaerobic digester adoption

  Published on June 11, 2025
  While the adoption of manure-based anaerobic digesters is on the rise, economic and regulatory obstacles remain.

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  Tolhurst examining economic behavior changes, impacts caused by extreme weather events on agriculture

  Published on May 14, 2025
  Tor Tolhurst, an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, joined MSU in fall 2024 by way of the Agricultural Resiliency Program.

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  USDA projects record-low hay acreage for Michigan in 2025

  Published on May 6, 2025
  Michigan harvested hay acreage is estimated to be 740,000 acres for 2025, a decrease of 3% from 2024 and 5% from 2023.

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  Caputo, Rouached honored with 2025 CANR Established Mid-Career Researcher Awards

  Published on April 22, 2025
  The CANR is proud to announce Vincenzina Caputo, Ph.D., and Hatem Rouached, Ph.D., as the recipients of the 2025 CANR Established Mid-Career Researcher Awards

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  AFRE professor joins Québec-led roundtable to boost US–Canada agri-food trade

  Published on April 11, 2025
  David Ortega, Ph.D., recently attended a significant roundtable discussion organized by the Québec government in Detroit to strengthen cross-border collaboration in the agri-food sector.

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  Sungmin Cheu, AFRE Doctoral Candidate, prepares to start his career as a tenure-track assistant professor

  Published on March 31, 2025
  Sungmin Cheu will finish his Docotral program in 2025 and start as an assistant professor at Montana State University.

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  Jaime Luke joins AFRE as a new assistant professor

  Published on March 31, 2025
  Jaime Luke started with AFRE in January 2025 and will focus on research and extension for Michigan agriculture.

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  AFRE undergrads lead the 97th Michigan FFA Convention

  Published on March 31, 2025
  Gretchen Gautz and Sara Dammann are agribusiness management students who also spent the last year serving as Michigan FFA State Officers.

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  Saweda Liverpool-Tasie named Research Director of Food Security Group

  Published on March 31, 2025
  Saweda Liverpool-Tasie is a MSU Foundation Professor in AFRE who will help lead the FSG research in a new direction.

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  Variety meat exports provide value to the U.S. beef industry

  Published on March 28, 2025
  The imposition of tariffs could affect international demand for beef variety meat products.

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  Avenues to reduce methane emissions from beef production: Understanding U.S. public support

  Published on March 24, 2025
  The U.S. public prefers beef producers use seaweed to reduce emissions but publicly funded subsidies would not likely cover adoption costs.

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  Everything but the oink? Insights on U.S. pork variety meats in an era of trade uncertainty

  Published on March 12, 2025
  The imposition of tariffs could affect international demand for pork variety meat products.

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  MSU scientist making food safer worldwide through research, policy

  Published on March 5, 2025
  Felicia Wu is working to better understand how to mitigate harmful aflatoxins and other food safety challenges globally.

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  MSU scientist researching ways to educate consumers on health, food security benefits of foods developed with biotechnologies

  Published on February 26, 2025
  Vincenzina Caputo is using a $650,000 USDA NIFA grant to examine how consumers view agri-food biotechnologies and the key players who communicate the science behind them.

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  Remembering the life and legacy of Gary Seevers, Ph.D.

  Published on February 7, 2025
  The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources community honors the profound impact and lasting legacy of Gary L. Seevers, Ph.D., a devoted supporter and passionate CANR Spartan.

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  Registration is Open for International Workshop on Survey Design and Experimental Methods in Applied and Agricultural Economics

  Published on February 3, 2025
  Register today for the exciting workshop taking place from May 26-30, 2025, at Michigan State University!

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  Tough Questions

  Published on January 16, 2025
  A webinar series by MSU’s Food Security Group exploring critical issues in international development research, featuring leading experts tackling ethics, policy pipelines, A.I. impacts, and more.

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  MSU researcher publishes article in Science on how agricultural value chains can promote climate-smart agriculture

  Published on December 20, 2024
  In the new policy forum article, the authors explain how agricultural value chains can incentivize small- and medium-sized farmers to be climate smart.

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  MSU ag economist awarded grant to analyze agricultural labor trends, promote U.S. food supply chain resilience

  Published on December 9, 2024
  The project is led by MSU assistant professor Zach Rutledge and is funded by USDA NIFA through 2028.