Agricultural Economics

Each week, we will showcase one of our CAHNRS Ambassadors for the CAHNRS Coug Connections series. This week, we’re featuring Lupe Villasenor, a senior from Lake Chelan, Wash.

PULLMAN, Wash. — The Washington State University Impact Center will be holding an online education opportunity for makers of agricultural products and for other small- and medium-sized business interested in expanding their markets through export.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Three Spanish language sessions of “Ag in Uncertain Times,” the popular interactive online webinar series for agricultural producers and other professionals, will be presented in March. The free 90-minute sessions can be accessed by anyone with a computer, speakers, and a broadband Internet connection.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Ron C. Mittelhammer, a Regents Professor and director of Washington State University’s School of Economic Sciences, has been elected President of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, his professional organization. The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association is a non-profit organization headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis. The AAEA is committed to furthering knowledge about […]

It’s a Fact Agriculture is critical to Washington’s economic well-being. The state’s $29 billion food and agriculture industry contributes 13 percent to the state’s economy, including more than $6 billion of annual farm gate value. The food and agriculture industry employs 170,000 people in every corner of the state, making it Washington’s No. 1 employer. […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University’s agricultural economics department opened the fall semester with a new name — the department of agricultural and resource economics — and soon after with a new offering, a bachelor of science degree in environmental and resource economics and management. The new department name reflects a broader mission for the […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — Apparently you can take the Italian out of the Piedmont, but you can’t take the Piedmont out of the Italian; at least not in four generations of the Baritelle family. The Baritelles were successful wool merchants who invested the family fortune in vineyards in the late 19th century — just in time […]

Considering the prices farmers receive for most crops these days, it may be more appropriate to talk about cash trickle than cash flow. It was only a year and a half ago that Gayle Willett, a Washington State University agricultural economist, was writing a publication, “Managing a Cash Flow Problem: Suggestions for Grain Producers.” At […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — Agricultural economists at Washington State University have concluded that no-till production not only conserves soil but also helped experienced no-till growers cope with recent low wheat prices. Doug Young, professor of agricultural economics; Herb Hinman, a Cooperative Extension agricultural economist; and Oumou Camara, a former graduate student in agricultural economics, reported on […]

Farmers and ranchers won’t be any happier about paying $2 a gallon for fuel than the rest of us, but they should be able to manage. Herb Hinman, Washington State University agricultural economist, says fuel and lubrication costs account for 2 percent to 5 percent of the production costs for most Washington farmers. What happens […]