Slow growth in real wages for Ohio’s agricultural workers
by Margaret Jodlowski (jodlowski.1@osu.edu) and Cassie Mavis Agricultural employers face the challenging balancing act of navigating tightening margins while needing to attract and retain workers on their operations. While farm labor issues are perhaps not the first thing that comes…
Ending USAID: What America—and the World—Stands to Lose
By Dr. Leah Bevis (bevis.16@0su.edu) is an Associate Professor in international development economics at AEDE and Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick (fitzpatrick.88@osu.edu) is an Associate Professor in international development economics at AEDE. She has worked with USAID on multiple projects since 2019….
Tax revenues or PILOT II
Posted by Brent Sohngen Please feel free to email with any questions: sohngen.1@osu.edu The upshot of this post (to see the last post referred to below, go here) You can’t compare two financial analyses that use fundamentally different input data….
The Economics of Solar Development in Ohio
By Grayson Penland and Brent Sohngen This report examines a number of economic aspects of solar development in Ohio. Here is a summary of the findings. A PDF of the report can be downloaded here. Solar energy constitutes about 1.4%…
Real Property Tax Versus PILOT for Solar?
by Brent Sohngen, AED Economics (Sohngen.1@osu.edu) Amid the debate about installing solar power on farmland in the state lies a discussion about how to evaluate the approach any county takes when taxing solar fields. It is well known that…
Oil and Natural Gas Market Assessment and Outlook
This assessment and outlook for oil and natural gas markets was written by Paige Lampman (lampman.11@osu.edu). The key word in energy for 2022 is uncertainty, which has been growing throughout the year so far. And unfortunately for consumers, uncertainty…
Ohio Scenic Rivers Program Response to Op-Ed
In response to my Op-Ed in the Columbus Dispatch on 4/6/2022 (here), Ohio Scenic Rivers Program Manager Bob Gable sent the following note to the Ohio Watersheds list-serv. I am copying it here, as well as providing the two attachments…
For the sake of the future, Ohio must do more to protect its rivers
(this Op-Ed appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on 4/6/2022 (click here for original) (the study on which this article is based can be found at: https://go.osu.edu/little-miami) As a kid, I remember looking down in awe at the Little Miami River…
The pathway to net zero emissions runs straight through the farm
by Brent Sohngen, Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Ohio State University. [This post appeared in The Columbus Dispatch on August 5, 2021. Click here] These days, it seems, farmers can get paid for all kinds of stuff. While…
Carbon in soils and trees: What should farmers and society worry about?
Carbon in soils and trees: What should farmers and society worry about? Brent Sohngen, Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Ohio State University As the US re-enters the Paris Agreement and companies all over the world work to become…
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