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A drop in dairy prices coming to a store near you - news article by Boyd Huppert of KARE 11 news team.
"It's taken some time for the reductions to reach consumers, but Brian Buhr, head of the U of M's Applied Economics Department says price declines at the grocery store are inevitable. "At the end of the day if milk prices stay cheaper at the farm level, they're going to get cheaper at the retail level."
Brian was interviewed for this TV segment on January 27, 2009.
Read news article and view video
Farmers polish marketing skills by Mark Steil, Minnesota Public Radio - January 22, 2009.
Read and listen to Ed Usset and Bob Craven conduct a class for farmers on using complex financial instruments to improve their grain marketing skills.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/01/21/grainmarketing/
CONGRATULATIONS to Jason Hill and Steve Polasky! Jason and Steve are two of the first cohort of resident fellows selected by the University’s Institute on the Environment. Each of the Institute’s resident fellows will receive flexible funding to engage in creative research and problem solving, develop new models of teaching and training, and build new networks and partnerships.
These fellowships were established to give both up and coming and established leaders the opportunity to work together on finding “outside the box” solutions to the world’s biggest environmental problems. Fellows will begin their three-year appointments with the Institute in June 2009.
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