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In early June of this year, the Rutgers Department of Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics hosted colleagues from the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association at the beautiful Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank, New Jersey.    

FARE Professors, Seowoo Lee, Assistant Extension Specialist, and Brian Schilling, Director of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, were invited to testify on May 28, 2026, at the NJ Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources on the impact of rising fertilizer and other input costs on the economic viability of New Jersey farms.

Sho Islam, EBE B.S. and FBE M.S., serves as the Director of the Office of Business Engagement in Middlesex County, New Jersey.

During the EBE Innovation and Entrepreneurship class, students engaged in a unique experience where coursework extended beyond the classroom into direct conversations with industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers.

Children who are obese are far less likely to climb the economic ladder as adults, compared to kids who have a normal weight, researchers recently reported in the Journal of Population Economics.

Childhood obesity may be quietly undermining one of the central promises of American life.

W. Arthur Lewis was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979.

Impressions from the NJ Agricultural Convention 2026 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Professor Seowoo Lee, has published a new extension factsheet (FS1381) detailing the evolving state of New Jersey’s agricultural workforce.