Dr. Chad Hart

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  Published on: 5/9/2009    Last Visited: 5/10/2009  

  "We had good prices for corn and soybeans in 2007 and 2008," said Iowa State University agricultural economist Chad Hart.

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  Iowa State Extension analyst Chad Hart on Wednesday told a state panel that Iowa should harvest about 93 percent of the corn planted.That's more optimistic than earlier estimates, when state officials speculated that 20 percent of the corn crop and 10 percent of soybeans were ruined.
  
  Hart spoke to the Rebuild Iowa Commission's Agriculture and Environment Task Force.He based his estimate on figures from the National Agriculture Statistics Service.

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  Iowa State Extension analyst Chad Hart on Wednesday told a state panel that Iowa should harvest about 93 percent of the corn planted.That's more optimistic than earlier estimates, when state officials speculated that 20 percent of the corn crop and 10 percent of soybeans were ruined.
  
  Hart spoke to the Rebuild Iowa Commission's Agriculture and Environment Task Force.He based his estimate on figures from the National Agriculture Statistics Service.
  
  (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press.All Rights Reserved.)

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  "The idea is there are a lot of new players in the commodities futures game and those new players don't necessarily have a vested interest in the market beyond the speculative interest," said Chad Hart, an agricultural economist with the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University.
  
  Hart said that although agricultural commodities trade on fundamentals like harvest reports, they have become more volatile due to the influx of new money.

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  • Regarding the stronger dollar, Marketing Specialist Chad Hart at Iowa State says the dollar has been getting stronger and the market weaker.He agrees with Good's analysis: http://www.econ.iastate.edu/outreach/agriculture/periodicals/ifo/IFO 2008/ifo090108.pdf • Watch the stocks to use ratio says Hart, who notes that percentage was under 15% for corn, beans, and wheat after 2007, with wheat the least in a decade.He says crops may be large, but so is demand and that will keep the stocks to use ratio low for corn and beans.Hart says prices rose this summer because of a lack of a cushion when floods hit.

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  "There's a ... combination of higher demand, natural disasters, higher energy prices - just a myriad of factors driving what price increases we're seeing across the food sector," says Chad Hart, an agricultural economist at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development in Ames, Iowa.

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  Chad Hart, an analyst at the Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University says this situation is changing. "I tend to disagree that farmers here are responding more to government policy than they are to market dynamics in how they utilise their acres," he says.
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  "I think farms are paying more attention to the Chicago Board of Trade prices and making their decisions based on those numbers- much more than of government policy," Hart says.

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  Published on: 6/14/2008    Last Visited: 6/14/2008  

  We're looking at possibly a good reduction in acres if a lot of this crop remains underwater,' said Chad Hart, an agriculture economist at Iowa State University. 'There's still hope, but it wanes with each rainstorm.'
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  'We've got some major price volatility ahead the weaker this crop gets,' Hart said.

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  Published on: 2/9/2009    Last Visited: 4/13/2009  

  Researchers Chad Hart and Tun-Hsiang Yu studied the issue and reported their findings in the paper titled "Impact of Biofuel Industry Expansion on Grain Utilization and Distribution: Preliminary Results of Iowa Grain and Biofuel Survey.

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  Published on: 11/23/2008    Last Visited: 3/14/2009  

  "If we hadn't seen oil go up over the last four or five years, we wouldn't have seen this push toward biofuels," said Chad Hart, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University.
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  "What we're facing with cellulosic ethanol is the same with any new energy source," Hart said.
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  Hart estimated that it costs about $1.60 to produce 1 gallon of corn ethanol.
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  Hart takes a wait-and-see approach.
  
  "There are a lot of logistical issues to work through, which is why those six demonstration plants are key to me," he said.

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