Economic Sense

Monsanto, a pioneer in sustainable food production technology, is named Company of the Year by Forbes magazine. Excerpts: "It is like c...

Many may have seen the video from New York City regarding soft drinks and fat: ( link ) While it is true that the excessive consumption ...

Farmers are starting to speak out against the attacks from point of view journalism, celebrity authors, and novelty film makers that have cl...

On my way to a late lunch yesterday I got a chance to catch a bit fromt he Rush Limbaugh show. He was talking about a story from CNN Money e...

This video (courtesy of the Animal Agriculture Alliance), makes the obvious point that modern agriculture isn't like the Facebook game ...

This week our leaders in DC held a job summit, but I'm not sure how open they were to the current evidence about unemployment. Last Oct...

The First Thanksgiving offered a great lesson in how free markets and private property can lead to agricultural abundance. In many ways we h...

The first Thanksgiving story provides an interesting lesson in agricultural economics. Foremost, the celebration was about thanking God for...

Why study Agricultural Economics? "The combination of quantitative training and applied work makes agricultural economics graduates a...

To me, we have seen a lot of hypocrisy lately in the public discourse regarding the issue of compensation. The underlying premise for much o...

Previously I was discussing Eigene Weekly's Next Big Thing blog interview of Craig Rosebraugh regarding Earth Liberation Front's m...

The following is an excerpt from a recent interview ( here on Eigene Weekly's Next Big Thing blog) of Craig Rosebraugh regarding Earth ...

My previous post- ' House Passes Anti-Ag Health Care Bill ' I expanded on some comments that I had left there in response to an edit...

A recent editorial in the Richmond Times Dispatch brings up the provision in the now passed house health care bill that regulates snack mach...

The politics of green: ( link ) "This movement realizes that when governments and politicians refuse to act to protect the planet, it i...

The Center For Consumer Freedom picked up on my AgWeb post. See Here Think organic cotton saves on pesticide use? Take a look at biotech c...

Hear the 10 Principles of Macroeconomics- Rap Version Source : Demand, Supply - Rhythm, Rhyme, Results ( Click for full version including ...

This post by Mankiw raises some questions I'm not sure I can answer.This involves allocating scarce resources(vaccine) given the constr...

When we think of sustainable food production, we may often think about niche markets like local or organic, although there is some bickerin...

In a nutshell, buy your milk from Kroger and kill 25 trees, but buy your milk from Wal-Mart and that's like planting 25 trees! Why is it...