Billionaire beef baron says US not producing enough to satisfy protein craze
JBS’s Wesley Batista says strong US demand is pushing country towards imports despite Trump’s tariffs
I hoped that weight loss drugs would reduce the demand for meat. Unfortunately, they seem to have the opposite effect.
Billionaire beef baron says US not producing enough to satisfy protein craze www.ft.com/content/5fad... via @ft
06.10.2025 09:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Working Papers
This probably doesnt help:
"NBER Working Papers may not offer policy recommendations or normative judgments about policies, but may report analytic results on the effects of policies."
www.nber.org/papers?page=...
28.09.2025 11:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Redirecting
Very happy to share the published version of this paper, which is open access.
"The impact of animal welfare regulations on pork trade: evidence from European countries" (with Anna Wallenbeck, Sigrid Agenäs, and Helena Hansson)
doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
24.09.2025 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Never seen any jokes from anyone there. If yours are getting through there must be a glitch in the matrix.
05.09.2025 18:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What Academic Economists Actually Do All Day
Teaching. Research. Outreach. It takes a lot of people skills.
Instead of the usual analysis of ag/env/trade policy, this week's post aims to give readers some insights into academic life. I hope economists/non-economists find it amusing/useful.
open.substack.com/pub/shonferg...
14.08.2025 19:36 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
My latest post discusses the potential trade and spatial implications of Canada's regulated system of dairy production, supply management.
TL/DR: Canada's production per person is extremely uniform compared to U.S.; homogenized, you might say.
shonferguson.substack.com/p/will-the-c...
15.07.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amid the new tariff threats on the EU, my post is still relevant.
13.07.2025 07:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just finished grading 17 Bachelor's theses and 7 Master's theses. Definitely ready for a summer break.
30.06.2025 14:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures!
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19.06.2025 03:10 — 👍 168 🔁 80 💬 9 📌 9
Fun Fact: Season 2 of The Bridge begins with a tanker colliding with the Öresund Bridge under mysterious circumstances.
Looking back, that episode was ominously prescient.
28.06.2025 16:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nytt stöd till bönder – ska få ned utsläpp
Bönder ska från och med i år och fram till 2027 kunna ansöka om stöd från Jordbruksverket för att få ned utsläppen.
The Swedish government just announced a new grant program to support farmers in investing in measures to reduce ammonia emissions.
100 million SEK per year in 2025, 2026, and 2027.
A potentially important step in reducing GHG emissions in agriculture.
www.atl.nu/nytt-stod-ti...
10.06.2025 15:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent @slu-econ.bsky.social seminar by Ricardo Guzman,visiting us from Aix-Marseille.
05.06.2025 07:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
💥Research Assistant Positions💥
1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.
02.06.2025 09:38 — 👍 21 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1
Turned out that none of the students in my class had even heard of the movie "Office Space". What the heck!
30.05.2025 17:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, Fertilizer, and Farmers
EU nitrogen fertilizer producers will gain protection from imports, while EU farmers dependent on inorganic fertilizer are left exposed
My latest blog post, about the economic impact of the EU CBAM on farmers.
TL/DR: EU nitrogen fertilizer producers will gain protection from imports, while EU farmers dependent on inorganic fertilizer are left exposed.
open.substack.com/pub/shonferg...
12.05.2025 12:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great post!
I hear that shipping companies preferred thowing empty containers on ships at CA ports bound for asia so that they could turn them around asap. I guess that dynamic might change now?
07.05.2025 17:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
John McCallum - Wikipedia
It is worth noting that the most famous trade economist to ever serve as minister in the Canadian government began as the Minister of...National Defence.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mc...
01.05.2025 07:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The future of climate investment subsidies
Using carrots vs. sticks
My latest post!
TL/DR: There are good reasons to expect that grant-based climate schemes for agriculture have a bright future.
open.substack.com/pub/shonferg...
30.04.2025 19:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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