A5068702491- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Market Dynamics and Volatility
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Economic Growth and Development
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Global Trade and Competitiveness
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Potato Plant Research
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Global trade and economics
- Local Economic Development and Planning
University of Idaho
2018-2024
Agricultural Research Service
2024
International Food Policy Research Institute
2023
Nigerian Institute of International Affairs
2019-2021
Purdue University West Lafayette
2012-2016
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
2010
Agricultural mechanization has often been associated with scale-effects and increased specialization. Such characterizations, however, fail to explain how may grow in Africa where production environments are heterogeneous even within a farm household, crop diversification help mitigating risks. Using panel data from households crop-specific costs Nigeria, we estimate the adoptions of animal traction or tractors affect economies scope (EOS) for rice, non-rice grains, legumes/seeds, which...
Abstract Determination of barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) nutrient uptake in residue biomass is important for agronomic, economic, and environmental decisions. Improved understanding grain yield, biomass, uptake, their relationships are needed. Research determined these factors 2018 2019 from trials four classes (spring animal feed, human food, malt, as well winter malt), using three common cultivars each, at five locations southern Idaho. Production environment created the largest difference...
Abstract Background Truffles are subterranean fungal fruiting bodies that highly prized for their culinary value. Cultivation of truffles was pioneered in Europe and has been successfully adapted temperate regions throughout the globe. Truffle orchards have established North America since 1980s, while some productive, there still many challenges must be overcome to develop a viable American truffle industry. These include extended delays between establishment production, comparatively low...
Abstract This paper comprehensively examines price transmission from world, neighbour country, and internal commercial hub markets to Nigerian urban markets, as well rural within the for seven key food security crops (maize, millet, sorghum, rice, cassava, yams cowpeas). There are three findings: (i) tradability matters transmission, but varies across regions. The strongest international linkages with neighbouring countries. Rice is high all while coarse grain correspondence low world prices...
Wheat (Triticum aestivum, L.) producers have the choice to retain or remove residue from cropping system following grain harvest. In U.S. Pacific Northwest and other regions, wheat is often sold increase operational profitability, especially higher-yielding systems. But there are several benefits retaining residue, including recycling of mineral nutrients contained therein, though this understudied. Therefore, primary objectives research were collect analyze a large diverse dataset on...
Abstract Achieving agricultural transformation and farmer resilience in resource‐dependent developing countries like Nigeria is complicated by volatile macroeconomic conditions, which disrupt supply chains through income, foreign exchange, risk‐mitigation effects. This study examines the food consumption–production linkage at a time when national Agricultural Transformation Agenda was implemented an economic crisis unfolding. Many farm households responded to expected shocks planting more...
Given the renewed interest in promoting healthy soils agricultural production via practices such as cover crops, decreased fumigations, or biological fertilizers, this article explores U.S. potato farmers' preferences for soil health-related practices. We conduct a discrete choice experiment (DCE) under which hypothetical varied based on their effect pests, fertilizer requirements, irrigation needs, additional testing/education, and expected net returns. Surveys were deployed to growers...
Abstract Global market demands for barley are less than cereals such as corn, rice, and wheat, but plays a particularly important role in cropping systems areas of high elevation and/or latitude with short growing seasons. Estimation residue nutrient uptake requires both knowledge the biomass produced, well concentration individual nutrients. These factors were evaluated 2018 2019 from trials four classes at five locations southern Idaho. Earn 0.5 CEUs Crop Management by reading article...
That exchange rates strongly influence agricultural commodity prices is a widely held belief. Observed divergences in price and rate correspondence over time, however, have occasionally brought this conventional wisdom into doubt. We empirically test find evidence to support hypotheses that key supply-use factors, such as low stocks policy shifts, intermittently cause greater responsiveness of changes because they give rise more inelastic market demand. After accounting for these longrun...
The organization of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, retail food industry was analyzed to determine whether spatial competition influenced cost and availability items. Using a gravity variable, costs two separate market baskets were in January 2009, factors influencing determined. Store type (chain or supercenter) found be most significant determinant costs, validating findings past studies. Although not more expensive low-income areas, results suggest that residents rural areas have...
That exchange rates strongly influence agricultural commodity prices is a widely held belief. Observed divergences in price and rate correspondence over time, however, have occasionally brought this conventional wisdom into doubt. We empirically test find evidence to support hypotheses that key supply-use factors, such as low stocks policy shifts, intermittently cause greater responsiveness of changes because they give rise more inelastic market demand. After accounting for these longrun...
Abstract In this paper, we describe how both the existing degree of price correspondence and tradability are important factors explaining why extent to which grain relationships adjust due growing condition variations. For a set maize millet markets in Niger Nigeria with different agro-ecological characteristics strengths relationships, use normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) data identify years weather-related production shocks. We then measure transmission between commercial hub...
Abstract In this paper, supply‐related and price data for several chickpea importing regions export competitor countries were encompassed into transmission models to determine whether such factors are helpful explaining the United States variation. Specifically, included satellite‐based normalized difference vegetation index, a measure of growing conditions, area planted estimates Indian subcontinent Mediterranean, exporting competitors, Australia Canada. Results show that inclusion...
Abstract The dairy industries in California, Idaho, and New Mexico expanded rapidly during the early 2000s. This study focuses on expansion effects milk-to-hay price responsiveness. Dairy industry makes hay markets tighter, with less available marketable supply most periods. empirical models account for effect as well those from exports low stocks-to-use ratios that also cause changes market demand characteristics. results show hay-to-milk responsiveness increased after all analyzed states....
This paper describes several sustainability-related agriculture technologies that are being used by farmers in the U.S. and Europe could plausibly be adopted smallholder Global South. Their unifying attributes they do not require capital-intensive complementary can effectively a single operator. We categorize related to “soil health moisture” “crop production nutrient management”. After describing technologies, we discuss barriers adoption strategies lessen these barriers. Lastly, propose...
Abstract This paper uses comprehensive and long time series monthly food price data a panel dyadic regression framework to evaluate the impact of COVID‐19 pandemic associated policy responses on spatial market integration across diverse set items in Nigeria. The empirical results reveal several important insights. First, we show that significant slowdown speed adjustment transmission occurred during pandemic. For some items, and, by implication, weakened two‐ to‐threefold after outbreak...
The absence of an agricultural census in Nigeria means that samples for surveys to estimate production are obtained from a non-comprehensive, non-representative set farms. Therefore, aggregate data quality is questioned. methods employed herein provide new way empirically evaluate the estimates. Two objective types data, namely normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI), satellite remote-sensing measure intertemporal changes, and prices, which reveal supply-use dynamics, used analyse...
Abstract There is a substantial pool of mineral nutrients contained in wheat residue, concentrated K, which has economic value. Given this value, it important for producers to weigh the relative benefits residue harvest, gives immediate but marginal revenue gains, and retention, multifaceted that include savings on future nutrient costs. Persistent removal from agronomic systems through harvest affects soil availability short‐ long‐term, timing magnitude these changes will depend cropping...
Abstract Recent economywide forecast studies have identified government funding as essential for agricultural sector development and modernization in Nigeria. However, like many African countries, Nigeria has had challenges meeting public expenditure pledges on a consistent basis. Despite volatility agriculture from year to year, the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) of 2011–2015, an policy initiative led by Nigerian Federal Ministry Agriculture Rural Development, represented distinct...