SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NC_old1177 : Agricultural and Rural Finance Markets in Transition
- Period Covered: 10/08/2021 to 04/09/2022
- Date of Report: 08/22/2022
- Annual Meeting Dates: 04/07/2022 to 04/09/2022
Participants
Bruce Ahrendsen - University of Arkansas Sarah Atkinson - USDA FPAC Business Center Lawson Connor - University of Arkansas Valentina Hartarska - Auburn University Jennifer Ifft - Kansas State University Margaret Jodlowski - The Ohio State University Noah Miller - USDA Economic Research Service Ana Claudia Sant'Anna - West Virginia University Thomas Sproul - University of Rhode Island Andrew Stevens - University of Wisconsin–Madison
Professional opportunities:
- Upcoming deadlines for NIFA AFRI grants
- Potential theme for a journal special issue: "socially disadvantaged groups" in agricultural lending
- Upcoming special issue guest edited by James MacDonald could be a good fit for NC-1177 publications
Areas for potential research collaboration:
- Sustainability metrics for farm loans
- Research that exploits lien data
- Research on lender branch closures including consolication and the effect of increased remote work
- Tension between agriculture and renewable energy (solar, wind)
- Policy research concerning the Commodity Credit Corporation
Discussion of NC-1177 project objectives
- Eventually, it may be appropriate to add "policy" to our objective 1
Discussion of future NC-1177 activities
- Agreed to continue our collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City to co-host a fall meeting with the National Agricultural Credit Committee (NACC)
- Provided positive feedback about our current collaboration with the SCC-76 group, but did not commit either way to repeating the collaboration in 2023