Breakout Session II
Ethanol and Livestock: Synergies or Competition?
Moderator: Bruce Babcock, Director, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD)
Allen Trenkle
Allen Trenkle is a Professor of Animal Science at Iowa State University. His areas of research include endocrine and cellular factors regulating growth in ruminants, efficiency of beef cattle as influenced by altering growth rate, feeding systems to improve body composition, and plant by-products as alternate sources of nutrients for livestock.
Chad Hart
Chad Hart is the U.S. Policy and Insurance Analyst with the Food and Agricultural Policy
Research Institute (FAPRI) at Iowa State University. In this capacity, he is
responsible for directing econometric and modeling efforts for the crop
insurance component of the FAPRI modeling system. Hart also maintains the Loan DeficiencyPayment (LDP) interactive website for the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD).
Hart received a B.S. in economics with minors in mathematics, history, and astronomy from Southwest Missouri State University in 1991. He received his Ph.D. in economics and statistics in 1999 from Iowa State University.
Mike Stern
Mike Stern is the Chief Executive Officer at Renessen, LLC, a joint venture of Monsanto Co. and Cargill Inc. Renessen is a leading innovator in developing improved ingredients/inputs for the feed and processing industry. Renessen uses biotechnology and breeding to produce corn and soybeans with higher levels of nutrients such as oil, protein, and amino acids that are important in feeding animals and processing grain.
Bruce Babcock
Bruce Babcock is a professor of economics and the director of the Center for Agricultural and
Rural Development at Iowa State University (CARD). Professor Babcock’s primary research interests are in understanding agricultural commodity policy in a global context, development of innovative risk management strategies for farmers, and the evolution of agriculture away from a primary focus on commodity production. His risk management research has led to the development of several new crop insurance products currently being sold under the auspices of the USDA and by the private sector.