Farmer Hayek at the 2016 Southern Ag Economics Association Meetings

Four of us will either be presenting at the SAEA meetings next week or are authors on papers and posters. Here's a list of titles with links to abstracts and full papers!

Levi Russell

Price Impacts of Brahman Influence in South Texas

Profitability of Beef Cattle Best Management Practices in South Texas


Michael Langemeier

The Challenges of Precision Agriculture: Is Big Data the Answer?

Economic Threshold for Dynamically Optimal Late Blight Management


Gregg Ibendahl

Kansas Farm Profitability Persistence: Do Top Farms Remain Top Farms? (also with Terry Griffin)


Terry Griffin

Defining the Barriers to Telematics for Precision Agriculture: Connectivity Supply and Demand

Value of Internet Connectivity Uptime for Multiple Vehicles Using Automated Section Control

Applying Data Envelopment Analysis Methodology to Site-Specific Precision Agriculture Data

Farmers' willingness to pay for farmland based on machinery and precision technology adoption

2015 Public Choice Society Meetings Recap

Last weekend I attended the Public Choice Society meetings in San Antonio. I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of the meeting. We stayed in a hotel on the Riverwalk and the papers presented at the meeting were unique and insightful. I thought I'd jot down a few of my thoughts about the meeting in this post.

First, I want to make sure readers know what the conference was about. Public Choice is a field of economics that deals primarily with political issues. The field is often described as "politics without the romance." Typical topics you'd find at the conference or in the society's journal Public Choice, are voting behavior, lobbying, rent seeking, economic freedom, regulation, and other topics at the intersection of economics and politics.