Department of Agricultural Economics Seminar Series
All seminars are going to be in-person in Waters 342. If you have questions about the Seminar Series, please contact Dr. Jisang Yu or Dr. Jennifer Ifft.
Upcoming Seminars
2023-2024
| Faculty Research Symposium | Kansas State University | Friday, October 20, 2023, 3:30 p.m. |
| Dr. Todd Kuethe | Purdue University | Thursday, December 7, 2023, 3:30 p.m. |
Previous Seminars
2023-2024
2023-2024
| Andrew Rosenberg | USDA’s Economic Research Service | "Impacts of an increase in federal assistance for cover cropping: Evidence from the Environmental Quality Incentives Program,"Friday, October 6, 2023, 3:30 p.m. |
| Dr. William Secor | University of Georgia | "The Effect of Precision Scheduled Railroading on Agricultural Shipper Service," Thursday, August 31, 2023, 3:30 p.m. |
| Dr. Molly Sears | Michigan State University | “Valuing Recycled Water for Irrigation: Direct and Indirect Benefits to Coastal Agriculture,"Thursday, September 21, 2023, 3:30 p.m. |
2022-2023
| Dr. Tomas Nilsson | Olds College of Agriculture and Technology | "Adoption of Agriculture Technologies in Canada," Tuesday, May 16, 2023. |
| Dr. Ali Hill | Colorado State University | "Air Pollution, Weather, and Agricultural Worker Productivity," Tuesday, March 28, 2023. |
| Francisco Scott | Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City | "Supply Shocks and Vertical Relationships: Evidence from the US Beef Market," Thursday, March 9, 2023. |
| Dr. Jared Hutchins | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | "Do Livestock Producers Breed Using Selection Indices? Evidence from US Dairy Bull Prices," Thursday, February 23, 2023. |
| Dr. Wesley Burnett | USDA ERS | “On-Farm Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in U.S. Agriculture,”Friday, December 2, 2022 |
| Dr. Lawson Conner | Arkansas State University | “RMA Projected Prices and Asymmetric Effects on Prevented Planting Claims," Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
| Dr. Maoyong Fann | Ball State University | “State Ownership and Cost-effectiveness of Environmental Policy: Firm-level Evidence”, Thursday, October 13, 2022 |
| Dr. Amy Hagerman | Oklahoma State University | “'Do Good Work': Recruiting and Developing Extension Faculty That Excel”, Thursday, September 1, 2022 |
2021-2022
| Dr. Courtney Bir | Oklahoma State University | "Quail-an Enterprise for Consideration in Farm Management", Thursday, May 5, 2022 |
| Dr. Margaret Jodlowski | The Ohio State University | "Health Insurance and Off-Farm Work" on Friday, April 15, 2022 |
| Dr. Hongli Feng | Iowa State University | “Will Tests Lead to More Informed Antibiotic Use? An Application in Veterinarian Diagnostic Decisions” on Monday, April 11, 2022 |
| Dr. Jason Brown | KC Federal Reserve Bank | “Great Expectations and Exuberant Borrowing: Evidence from Fracking Leases” on Thursday, March 24, 2022 |
| Janic Bucheli | ETH Zurich | “Weather Effects On The Probability Of Wheat Downgrading”, February 10, 2022 |
| Dr. Jim Mintert | Purdue University | "The Ag Economy Barometer: What Have We Learned So Far?”, January 11, 2022 |
2020-2021
| Dr. Karl Rich | Oklahoma State University | "Advances in socioeconomic approaches to assess animal disease impacts: examples from the developing world," Tuesday, November 2, 2021 |
| Dr. Aleks Schaefer | Oklahoma State University | "Exporting Scarcity? Sustainable Groundwater Regulation in an International Marketplace," Friday, October 8, 2021 |
| Dr. Harun Bulut | National Crop Insurance Service | “Reevaluating the Use of Volatility Factor in Crop Insurance Premium Rating," Thursday, September 23, 2021 |
| Dr. Jihoon Cho | Kansas State University | "The Value of Subjective and Objective High-Frequency Service Quality Data: An Empirical Analysis"Thursday, September 9, 2021 |
| Dr. Matt Gammans | Michigan State University | "Double Cropping as an Adaptation to Climate Change in the United States,"Thursday, April 22, 2021 |
| Dr. Minfeng Tang | Kansas State University | "Seasonal Variation in Fed Cattle Profitability Including Both Production and Price Risk," Thursday, April 8, 2021, 2021 |
| Dr. Gabe Sampson | Kansas State University | "Irrigation and Land Value Response to Ethanol Market Expansion in Kansas," Thursday, March 25, 2021 |
| Dr. Diane Charlton | Montana State University | “Seasonal Farm Labor and Criminal Activity in the United States," on Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
2019-2020
| Dr. Tatyana Deryugina | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | “Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina,” Tuesday, March 3, 2020 |
| Dr. Eric Edwards | North Carolina State University | "Historical Evidence of Increased Climatic Resiliency due to Irrigation in the United States," Thursday, February 6, 2020 |
| Dr. Bowen Chen | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | "Conservation Tillage Mitigates Drought Induced Yield Losses in the Corn Belt," Thursday, December 12, 2019 |
| Dr. Ben Schwab | Kansas State University | "The Transition to Legal Cannabis Production: Evidence from Northern California" Thursday, November 14, 2019 |
| Dr. Tom Hertel | Purdue University | "Trade in Technology: A Potential Solution to the Food Security Challenges of the 21st Century" Thursday, October 17, 2019 |
| Dr. Metin Cakir | University of Minnesota | "Retail Price Premiums for Organic Fresh Fruits and Vegetables" Tuesday, October 1, 2019 |
| Dr. Gyuhyeong Goh and Dr. Jisang Yu | Kansas State University | "Bayesian Causal Inference with Some Invalid Instrumental Variables" Tuesday, September 17, 2019 |
2018 - 2019
| Dr. Tim Beatty | University of California, Davis | “Consumer Choice of Store Format: Response to Policy Incentives” Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 11 a.m. |
| Dr. Nicolas Legrand | INRA | "Bayesian Estimation of the Storage Model Using Information on Quantities" Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 11 a.m. |
| Dr. Michel Robe | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne | "Who Holds Positions in Agricultural Futures Markets - and How?" Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 11 a.m |
| Dr. Michel Roberts | University of Hawaii at Manoa | "Variable Pricing and the Cost of Renewable Energy" Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 11 a.m. |
| Dr. Geoff Cockfield | University of Southern Queensland | "Visiting Fulbright Scholar Presentation" Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. |
| Dr. Simeon Ehui | World Bank, Agricultural Global Practice | "From Thousands to Millions: Selected World Bank Experience on Scaling up Innovation in Agriculture in Africa" December 13, 2018 |
| Dr. Leah Palm-Forster | University of Delaware | "Factors Affecting Enrollment of Leased Land in the Conservation Stewardship Program in Kansas"Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. |
| Dr. Nicholas Magnan | University of Georgia | "Information, Technology, and Market Rewards: Incentivizing Aflatoxin Control in Ghana" Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 1:30 p.m, |
2017 - 2018
| Dr. Ariel Ortiz-Bobea | Cornell University | "The Role of Nonfarm Influences in Ricardian Estimates of Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Agriculture" Thursday, April 26, 2108 at 11:00 |
| Dr. Timothy Richards | Arizona State University | "Immigration Reform and Farm Labor Markets"Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 11:00 |
| Dr. Lindy Robison | Michigan State University | "The Colonoscopy Decision: The Role of Social Capital and Relational Goods in Health Care Decisions" Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 3:45 |
| Dr. Fiona Burlig | University of Chicago | "Machine Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency" Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 11:00 |
| Dr. Taro Mieno | University of Nebraska | "Do Agricultural Producers Really Change Their Irrigation Behavior Based on Neighbors Pumping" Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 3:45 |
| Dr. Ross Kingwell | University of Western Australia | "Intellectual Property Rights and Canadian Wheat Breeding for the 21st Century" Thursday, October 19, 2017 |
| Dr. Kent Kovacs | University of Arkansas | "Producer Discount Rates for Investment in Irrigation Efficiency" Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 3:45 |
2016 -2017
| Dr. Michael Kremer | Harvard University | "What Institutions are Appropriate for Generating and Disseminating Local Agricultural Information? Evidence from Kenya" Tuesday May 2, 1:00 p.m. |
| Dr. Mario Miranda | The Ohio State University | "Warehouse Receipt Financing for Smallholders in Developing Countries: Long on Imagination, Short on Logic" Friday, April 28 at 1:00 p.m |
| Dr. Allen Klaiber | The Ohio State University | "Price Based Land Use Policy and Development Density: Impacts on Urban Land Use Patterns" Tuesday, April 11 at 3:45 p.m. |
| Dr. Harrison Fell | North Carolina State University | "Fuel Prices, Restructuring, and Natural Gas Plant Operations" Tuesday, April 4 at 1:00 p.m |
| Dr. David Ubilava | University of Sydney | “The Role of El Nino Southern Oscillation in Commodity Price Movement and Predictability” Tuesday, March 28 at 3:45 p.m |
| Dr. Michael Delgado | Purdue University | “Third Party Certification and the Effectiveness of Voluntary Pollution Abatement Programs: Evidence from Responsible Care” Thursday February 23, at 1:00 p.m |
| Dr. Fenton Sands | Sands International | "On the Process and Outcomes of Development Policy Reforms in Ghana" Tuesday, November 8, at 3:45 pm |
| Dr. Tina Saitone | University of California, Davis | "Calf and yearling Prices in the Western United States: Spatial, Quality, and Temporal Factors in Satellite Video Auctions" Tuesday, October 25, at 3:45 pm |
| Dr. Jayson Lusk | Oklahoma State University | "Ex Post Analysis of Prop 2 in California" Tuesday, August 9, at 11:00 am |
