AAE would like to congratulate professor Nick Parker, and his co-author Bryan Vadheim, recipients of the 2017 Ralph C. d’Arge and Allen V. Kneese Award for Outstanding Publication in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and …
Year: 2018
Helping farmers success on the business side
Growing up on a family farm in Arena, Wisconsin, Luke Drachenberg loved three things: agriculture, business, and Badger football. So, it only makes sense that when it came time for him to go to college, he ended up as an Agricultural and Applied Economics major at UW-Madison. The seed was planted when and he had…
The potential cost of Foxconn for the fishing industry
As construction of the Foxconn plant in Manitowoc gets underway, environmental researchers look at what pollution could do to the area’s air, water and fishing resources. AAE Professor Dan Phaneuf, along with graduate student Jennifer …
What Trump tariffs mean for international trade in Wisconsin
Tessa Conroy, Steve Deller and Matt Kures, all of AAE’s Center for Community and Economic Development, dig in to the statistics of Wisconsin’s international exports, and what changing trade agreements could mean for the state …
Helping producers protect watersheds
Professor Paul Mitchell was interviewed by WPR about the imapct of new legislation to provide increased grants for producer-led watershed programs. Grants provide matching funds that can help cover the cost of soil testing, planting …
What a low unemployment rate means for Wisconsin’s economy
The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 2.9 percent in February, according to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. The preliminary estimates would mark a historic low in the state’s monthly unemployment rate. AAE Professor Steven …
Livestock Gross Margin Insurance Program for Dairy Webinar
The funding limitation imposed on the Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy Cattle (LGM-Dairy) insurance program was eliminated via last month’s Federal budget agreement. In addition, dairy farm operators are now able to opt out of …
Understanding the effects of tax incentives on land conservation
AAE Professor Nic Parker, together with his colleague Wally Thurman from NC State University, conduct the first study of its kind on the effect of tax incentives on conservation easements. In addition to exploring whether …
AAE presents the Status of Wisconsin Agriculture 2018
Status of Wisconsin Agriculture, the longstanding agricultural situation and outlook report produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and UW-Extension/Cooperative Extension is back in its second year, after a …
AAE Graduate Programs get STEM Designation
We are pleased to announce that as of December 2017, all graduate degrees from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at UW-Madison have a Federal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) designation. This is possible …