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Back in 2019, I wrote a "Briefer" History of Farm Management — a blog post accompanying a peer-reviewed article published in the 2020 Journal of ASFMRA. That study examined 330 articles published from 2000 to 2019, looking at title words, author institutions, and what distinguished Gold Quill Award winners from the rest of the pack. The short version: "farm" was far and away the most common title word, Kansas State University led in total publications, and farmland-focused ar

Have been thinking about how non-monetary factors affect decision to invest in technology and how using that technology affects not only...

Over the last three years I have devoted a portion of my research efforts to the impact of space weather on agriculture. I am neither a...

The prevalence of formal disputes regarding off-target herbicide applications, i.e., chemical trespass via drift, seems to be increasing....

I teamed up with a weed scientist and couple other economists to evaluate the farm management decisions around the "Dicamba Dilemma"....