Schedule

Saturday, January 13th 2024

PANEL ONE, 8:30 a.m. (CST)

Richmond Baye, University of Vermont:

“Enhancing Food Sustainability through Latent Class Analysis of Biosecurity Attitudes and Decision- Making Strategies of Swine Producers in the United States”

Anna Josephson, University of Arizona:

“The Mismeasure of Weather: Using Remotely Sensed Weather in Economic Contexts” 

Cheikh Fall, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco:

“Desert Locust Invasions and Farmers' Adaptation Strategies”

Jeffrey Michler, University of Arizona:

A Geospatial Impact Evaluation of Stress-Tolerant Rice Varieties  

Ellen Kamps, University of California, Berkeley:

"Low-Hanging Fruit: Advances in Sustainable Pesticide Applicators are Ripe for the Picking" 

Discussants: TBA

PANEL TWO, 11:00 a.m. (CST)

Jose H  Quintero, University of Arizona:        

“Public transportation investments and their relation to food consumption patterns”

Metin  Çakır,    University of Minnesota:     

“Dollar Store Growth and Food Prices”

Toyib   Aremu, University of Vermont:

“Implication of Financial Inclusion on Farmer Welfare in Nigeria: A combined Two-step Cluster Analysis and Nonparametric Regression.”

 Mary Mafuyai, Tennessee State University

“Farmland access and affordability a growing concern”    

Discussants: TBA

PANEL THREE, 1:00 p.m. (CST)

Stephanie Zhu, Virginia Tech

“What you request is what you get: An agroecological examination of the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program”

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell University:

“R&D needs to offset climate change damages on US agricultural productivity”

Binayak Kunwar, Purdue University (Anil Giri and Dipak Subedi, Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA )    

“Participation and government payments across different farm types”

Nixon  Chekenya: Texas Tech University

“Risk Factors in Crop Abandonment Decisions: Evidence from Zambia”

Discussants: TBA

PANEL FOUR, 3 p.m. (CST)

Jennifer Ifft,  Kansas State University:

“Contract Delivery Risk and Crop Insurance”

Hoa  Hoang,   University of Missouri:

“Food Loss Policy Bears Strange Fruit: How A Policy to Constrain Supply Chain Food Loss Interacts with Grape Markets”

Jhih-Yun  Liu, University of Minnesota:

 “Commodity Prices and Mortality”

Marc Bellemare, University of Minnesota               

“Global Agriculture Value Chains and Food Prices”

Aparna Howlader, Chatham University:

“Local Institutions, Resource Management, and Climate Resilience: Implication of post-Dust Bowl institutional changes on American agriculture (1937 - 2000)​”

Discussants: TBA

Sunday, January 14th , 2024

PANEL FIVE, 8:30 a.m. (CST)

Rebecca Hill, Colorado State University:

“A Decade of Hemp Under the Farm Bill:  Lessons Learned and Opportunities for the Future”

Tyler Mark, University of Kentucky:  

“Carbon Market and Climate Smart Opportunities for Hemp”

Margaret Jodlowski, The Ohio State University:

“Agricultural labor supply and citizenship status”

Hoa Hoang and Fazal Malakhail, University of Missouri:

“Impacts of Benefit Increases on SNAP Household Food Expenditures”          

Discussants: TBA