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Recent trade policy talks and tariffs imposed by the Trump administration have had an impact on soybean prices (see:  Trump's And China...

In HIERARCHY, DISAGREEMENT, AND FOOD POLITICS food economist Jayson Lusk discusses Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and a modification or ap...

There has been a lot of conversation lately regarding conflicts of interest in research. This recent tweet by Andrew Kniss resonated a lot w...

There was a nice guest post on AgWeb recently titled: Gene Editing: Building Better Blueprints, One Gene at a Time.  I really like the b...

This is a couple years old but just as relevant and inspiring: "I believe the future of agriculture will be shaped by continued impro...

Recently I was reading an article,  "The big Washington food fight"  in Politico discussing challenges of bringing diverse intere...

A really nice piece in the Huffington Post by Kevin Folta evangelizing about future careers in plant breeding ( link ). I like the way he ...

In a recent issue of Weed Science, Andrew Kniss investigates the relationship between herbicide resistance in weeds and adoption of genetica...

Kouser, S., Qaim, M., Impact of Bt cotton on pesticide poisoning in smallholder agriculture: A panel data analysis,Ecol. Econ. (2011), doi:1...

Recently I was reading an artcile, "The big Washington food fight" in Politico discussing challenges facing bringing diverse inte...

I recently reviewed a PNAS article titled "Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on contr...

See also: I deas and Research Productivity in Agriculture  From: Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - Stanford Business Insights: ...

In the Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, Bryan Kaplan discusses issues related to the median voter theorem an...

In the last entry on voting paradoxes, I mentioned that things are different if preferences are single peaked. Let’s look at another scena...

Is majority rule the best way to represent voters preferences for a given set of policies? Let’s look at a particular voting scenario to i...

What is the difference between 'risk' and 'uncertainty'? "Uncertainty refers to outcomes that we cannot foresee, or w...

Previously I discussed how the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, and the National Academy of Sciences have all i...

The World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, and the National Academy of Sciences have all issued statements regarding ...

Over at RealClearAgriculture I have been blogging about food subsidies and soda taxes. Research from the American Journal of Clinical Nutr...

According to the USDA, "an estimated 12.7 percent of American households were food insecure at least some time during the year in 2015...