
The Status and Changing Face of Ohio Agriculture
by: Ani Katchova, Associate Professor and Farm Income Enhancement Chair, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University Farmers deal with many stressors, most of which are out of their control: extreme weather, market changes, COVID-19, trade wars, fluctuating market…
COVID-19’s Impact on Commodity Markets
Dr. Ian Sheldon and Ben Brown, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Agricultural Risk Management, discuss COVID-19’s Impact on Commodity Markets, International Trade and the WHO.

Are the USDA forecasts rational?
Are the USDA forecasts rational? This is the question that AEDE’s Siddhartha Bora and Ani Katchova, together with Todd Kuethe, have answered in their recently published article in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE). Ani Katchova is the Farm…
Climate Mitigation is a Complex Systems Problem
Drs. Yongyang Cai and Sathya Gopalakrishnan discuss the complexity of climate mitigation, the social cost of carbon and if COVID-19 is enough of a disruption to be considered a tipping point. *Be sure to click ‘watch on youtube’ and hit…
Without a Doubt, Biomass Is Carbon Neutral – Ohio State University Professor Supports Wood Bioenergy In New Study
“Without a Doubt, Biomass Is Carbon Neutral” – Ohio State University Professor Supports Wood Bioenergy In New Study Blog post originally published on Future Forests & Jobs on APRIL 20, 2020 Ohio State University Professor Brent Sohngen is speaking up about…

Economic Myths in the Age of Populism and Implications for Ohio
The Winter 2020 Swank Advisory Council meeting featured presentations from Dr. Mark Partridge, professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University and chair of the C. William Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy, and…

How Climate Change is Affecting the Great Lakes
In areas from rainfall to lake levels, fish to algal blooms, shipping to agriculture, drinking water quality to public health, “Climate change is causing significant and far-reaching impacts on the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes region.” That’s according to the science-based Assessment…
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