Economic Sense

There is a segment of the organic movement that wants to get their ducks in a row so that they can oppose gene editing technologies without ...

Jayson Lusk recently pointed out that making large scale organic work (i.e. read if we want more access to organic food that means 'l...

Previously the ag industry and companies like Monsanto seemed to have a focus on a one-size fits all solution to crop protection and seeds....

From the literature: “We found that the improvement of a plant variety through the acquisition of a new desired trait, using either mutage...

Last week there was an interesting interview on the closing market report with Robb Fraley, Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto. The discus...

Has biotechnology lived up to its promises? What were the ‘promises’ of biotechnology? Does genetic engineering present food safety risks ...

Julie Kelly makes an interesting point with this question: "who are the real deniers: those who are reasonably skeptical about clima...

From: Scientists planning their own march in Washington (CNN Politics) http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/scientists-march-dc-trnd/i...

I recently came across an article in national geographic about the new GMO labeling compromise that I thought was well written: http://www...

It is no secret these days that there are anti-biotech activists that reject the science related to the safety and benefits of biotechnology...

A nice article related to CRISPR technology and an application with waxy corn in a recent DTN article: https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/w...

Jayson Lusk has an interesting post on his blog related to an article in the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics finding an inte...

 In their very well known article "The Cult of Statistical Significance" , Ziliak and McCloskey write: "William Sealy Gosse...

In a previous post , I pondered some questions related to using market demand functions to make welfare statements, following broadly Microe...

Professionally most of my focus has been empirical and to a great extent, has been agnostic when it comes to micro theory. Take data mining ...

I recently was reading an article on AgWeb, How the feds interest rate decision affects farmers; and the following remarks stood out to me:...

In a recent EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts , Matt Ridley comments on a previous discussion with Martin Weitzman regarding the tail risk ...

In a fairly recent EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts, Matt Ridley discusses the consensus about climate change: "if it's true th...

There have been some recent headlines lately about California's EPA expressing an 'intent' to put glyphosate on its list of ...

I have recently came across an article in consumer reports: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/how-safe-is-your-ground-beef This ...