A5062723542- Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Market Dynamics and Volatility
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Economic theories and models
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Utah State University
2019-2024
Purdue University West Lafayette
2014
Excess phosphorus (P) is a major pollutant in aquatic systems. Phosphorus removal structures, landscape-scale filters designed to capture dissolved P from runoff, drainage, and wastewater offer promise curbing pollution. While the environmental benefits of various structures are well documented, cost-effectiveness each structure's ability sequester lacking. In this study, we compare most prominent structures. Specifically, calculate average cost per kilogram (kg) removed by eight different...
Applied Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness programs aim to equip graduates with decision-making problem-solving skills for a globally competitive dynamic business environment. Ensuring student success requires instructors explore innovative curriculum formats that augment the learning of theoretical concepts, while promoting students’ preparedness future careers. In this commentary, we highlight three categories ideas present evidence from corresponding feedback instructor experiences....
The 2018 farm bill removed industrial hemp from the Schedule 1 Controlled Substance List. In response, states scrambled to enact legislation. Some flower producers report their fields were cross- pollinated by a neighbor growing different cultivar. For crops, pollination reduces cannabinoid concentration levels within flower; these dictate price. We show that in repeated game, once sufficiently large percentage of growers decide plant fiber/seed cross-pollination forces convert avoid...
A group of 334 Avena sterilis L. strains was grown at Ames, Iowa, and measured for groat straw‐protein percentages heading date. F 3 segregates from five crosses between A. sativa ✕ lines were the same traits. Straw protein ranged 5.5 to 14.6%. Three used as checks had mean 5.6 6.7. Collections Libya generally higher levels straw than those other countries, even though strain with highest protein, PI 324721, Greece. There a positive correlation date percentage, but one strain, 324774, early...
This study measures the importance of various regional economic and agronomic factors on a grower’s decision to cultivate cannabinoid (CBD) hemp flower in United States, its subsequent effect CBD processor feedstock cost. I use real options analysis recover price required trigger land change from commodity crop production across scenarios endemic different producing regions. Results suggest most important determining floral are expected yield concentrations within it. processors looking...
Abstract Safflower grown in the western U.S. is often produced for birdseed mixes. Increasing demand products, combined with regional drought, has shrunk safflower availability. To satisfy growing demand, processors may look to contracting strategies incentivize production. We compare expected risk and corresponding certainty equivalents both from processor producer viewpoints under various mechanisms aversion levels. Results suggest that contracts containing a combination of lump sum...
Abstract Growers have increasingly expressed frustration over the negative externalities created by their neighbor's production practices. These spatial agricultural network problems include issues such as cross‐pollination and herbicide drift. We develop novel methods for estimating parameters that allow us to adapt apply general diffusion models these problems. Doing so allows calculate externality damage within a region cost‐effective policies alleviating externality. empirically...
Over the past few years cellulosic biofuel production has continually fell short of mandates set by Renewable fuel standard. This continued to happen despite positive predictions in net present value a plants and government subsidy/assistance programs. The study evaluates impact alternative policy instruments on price that firms require enter market. Some policies aim at increasing mean returns investment without affecting uncertainty (annual subsidy establishment cost subsidy), others are...
This paper addresses the impact that different contracts can have on a farmer’s willingness to grow perennial crops, and both risk cost effectiveness of each type. Growing energy crops such as poplar, requires large up front capital costs are largely irreversible. It is also associated with highly volatile returns discourage cultivation. Traditional approaches predict entry threshold for given project, NPV or Marshallian neglect account uncertain, sunk, intertemporal nature these types...
Abstract U.S. soybean farmers are currently grappling with dicamba herbicide drift. Using a network diffusion framework that accommodates key features of farmer networks, we estimate the damages incurred from drift across different regions. Under our baseline assumptions, an average yield loss 3% and predict sizable levels forced switching to dicamba-resistant seed in response The relative importance on damage choice holds range economic assumptions. In absence policy, this may cause...