My father, Jim Irwin, cultivating corn on our Iowa farm in the mid-1940s.
The E15 Bill: Uncertain Benefits vs. Certain Costs
HR 1346 — the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act — passed the House by a narrow margin this week and now goes to the Senate for consideration. The bill does three main things: First, it extends the Clean Air Act’s Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) waiver to E15. Under…
400
This week, I published my 400th farmdoc daily article. Four hundred. It still doesn’t quite feel real to type that number. To put that in perspective: 400 articles works out to roughly 27 per year over the past 15 years — about one every other week, year in and year…
The RFS
After 15 years of work with some extraordinary collaborators, I’m thrilled to share that “The Biofuels Blueprint: Understanding the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard” has been published as a Featured Article in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy — and it’s open access. This is the comprehensive review of the RFS I…
Cows and Courses
When Doug Peterson and I wrote Back to the Futures, we aimed at a general audience — farmers, grain traders, market analysts, and curious readers. We didn’t really think of it as a classroom book. Of course, I wanted the book to help educate readers about commodity markets, but most…
Master Teacher
One of the best parts of writing my book Back to the Futures has been discovering the unexpected ways it has been used in and out of the classroom. With that in mind, meet Dr. Maria Boerngen, Professor of Agribusiness at Illinois State University — and one of my department’s…
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