Dedicated to International Agricultural, Food, and Forestry Trade in Tennessee and Southeast. Managed by Dr. Andrew Muhammad, Blasingame Chair of Excellence.
Knoxville, TN
Joined March 2018
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African Americans and federal land policy: Exploring the Homestead Acts of 1862 and 1866 - @UTAgTrade Andrew Muhammad et al., examine the Homestead Acts and precarious position of African Americans. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (Wiley) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Have you felt the sting of meat prices at checkout? Beef is suddenly very expensive – already up more than 20% since early 2025.
theconversation.com/soaring-…
Southern Ag Today article by Andrew Muhammad (@UTAgTrade) with @UTAgResEcon
A Narrowing Agricultural Trade Deficit in 2026 – But Are We Better Off?
southernagtoday.org/2026/06/…
USDA is increasingly framing the reduction of the agricultural trade deficit as a key policy objective.
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This segment sums me up quite well. Thanks, @MoRocca and CBS. You also get a look at my Dahlia singing (and me at the piano).
New York Times columnist, bestselling author, linguist and Columbia University professor @JohnHMcWhorter doesn't shy away from controversy.
He talks with @MoRocca about his book, "Losing the Race: Self-Sabatoge in Black America," published in 2000, along with one of his latest projects, reconstructing the long-forgotten 1940s hit Broadway musical "Early to Bed" with music by jazz legend Fats Waller and why he feels good about how people perceive him now.
My latest article in the @ConversationUS "Canada is kicking its US booze habit as trade tensions persist" highlights the significant decline of American beer, wine, and spirits in the Canadian market due to trade war 2.0.
doi.org/10.64628/AAI.kmrrgrx…
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I spent time at The University of Memphis today for their “Timber Talks,” visiting with folks about the future of Tennessee forestry and the lumber industry.
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Tennessee rice. You heard that right.
I visited @tennemorice in West TN when the Schultz family runs the only rice farm AND mill in our state, handling everything from field to final product.
That’s how you keep agriculture local, strong and growing.
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Right now, there are roughly 16 million barrels of bourbon aging in Kentucky, far more than there were just a decade ago. At the same time, demand is softening, tariffs are complicating global trade, and producers are being forced to rethink what comes next.
So what happens when an industry built on patience runs into a timing problem?
This week’s episode looks at the economics of bourbon, from why it’s so concentrated in Kentucky to what happens when a boom turns into a glut.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Bourbon is built on time.
You make it today … and hope the market still wants it years from now.
That works beautifully when demand is growing. It’s a lot harder when it’s not.
Soybean Exports Continue to Lag: conta.cc/4aq9rUq
Great article in @SouthernAgToday by Will Maples and Grant Gardner.
Soybean Exports Continue to Lag: conta.cc/4aq9rUq
The mockery ends now! 🙃 Here I show how the now infamous USTR equation can be derived using basic supply and demand. I only needed a made up theorem and a somewhat made up rule. @ChadBown and @paulkrugman, #ChatGPT is not this clever! 🙂
Very smart people have been laughing at USTR's approach to deriving reciprocal tariffs. It is uncalled for and unfair! One must invoke the "Mercantilist Trade Deal" Theorem and the "Professor, can we cease and desist with this nonsense" Rule. The rest is basic derivations.
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No more margaritas? 'Canada and Mexico – two of the top U.S. trading partners – accounted for nearly half of the US$12 billion in distilled spirits the U.S. imported in 2024.' theconversation.com/trumps-t… #drinkhistory #foodhistory #tariffs #Canada #Mexico
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.@ConversationUS - Trump’s tariffs on Canada and #Mexico could spell trouble for distilled spirits theconversation.com/trumps-t…
Conversation Article by @UTAgTrade (Andrew Muhammad) Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico could spell trouble for distilled spirits theconversation.com/trumps-t… via @ConversationUS
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Very well communicated overview of the current trade policy climate and how it affects agriculture by @UTAgTrade open.spotify.com/episode/1Tn…
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Egg prices reach a record high of $5.90/dozen. That is almost 50 cents per egg!
#eggflation💸 #eggprices #birdflu
