Applied Economics

Management and Budget Commissioner Erin Campbell and Minnesota State Economist Laura Kalambokidis spoke about the budget surplus Wednesday in St. Paul.

Reliance on corn-based ethanol aviation fuel “is not going to do much for global warming, but it will do quite a lot to benefit the renewable fuel industry and it will also indirectly benefit corn prices,” Prof. C. Ford Runge, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law at the University of Minnesota, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

This is the first year U of M was chosen to house the National Thanksgiving Turkey. “Turkey production has long been a fundamental part of Minnesota agriculture and is important to providing high quality protein to consumers all over the world,” said Brian Buhr, dean of CFANS.