Selecting three states, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, chosen for their unique agricultural sectors, AAE faculty Andrew Stevens and Dan Bromley, faculty emeritus, examined data from rural counties to compare unemployment rates between these sectors. The …
Month: October 2021
Marin Skidmore PhD ’20 and Kait Sims PhD x’22, receive grant
Led by Holly Gibbs, faculty in the Department of Geography and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the GLUE lab was one of twelve recipients of a 2021 seed grant from UW-Madison Global Health Institute. The …
Nouhoum Traoré PhD ’18, wins award from International Association of Agricultural Economics (IAEAE)
Traoré came to the US from Mali as a teenager, knowing no English. He earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Hunter College, continuing on to earn a second master’s degree from the Kennedy …
Preliminary report released on economic impacts of on Wisconsin farms reducing nitrogen losses
Since its introduction in 2002, NR151, the Wisconsin State Legislature Administrative Code addressing runoff management has had several updates; the most recent effort introduces new standards and prohibitions intended to reduce nitrate concentrations in groundwater …