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Tonight's Guest: Professor Steve Swallow Professor Steve Swallow describes economics research helping field birds and farmers. This professor of resource economics in Connecticut and Vermont and his students work on the problem of getting people to pay for their share of public goods. E.g. farmers need to cut their hay at exactly the time Bobolinks' very new young will die if the nests lose cover. The project brings together consumers who want to protect birds and preserve farmers' livelihoods and farmers who leave certain fields for the birds in return for payment covering their costs for participating.