Outer space is now open for business. On February 22, 2024, a private company space vehicle, Intuitive Machines landed on the Moon. The first manned U.S. lunar landing...Read More
From the archives of fun papers I have written, this one from when I was a manure economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2001. We had...Read More
There was a time, not so long ago, when agribusiness referred to a farm input-providing business. This was readily translated into everything involving goods and services that revolved...Read More
Local and global markets for ag and biomass products are two distinct markets that are interdependent. They are two parts of the same system. It is a ‘both...Read More
Local markets are defined in more than one way. This adds unexpected confusion to a simple term like, ‘local’. Mathematicians have a definition for local that adds clarity....Read More
As a quantitatively trained, free-market economist, I had been shaped to believe buying ‘local’ was a preference that was not cost-effective. But as I grew into a manure...Read More
What? This is what biomass systems economists do. We add value to goods and services in value attributes that go beyond having a price in dollars. Most of...Read More
Every new day, week, month, or year, is full of potential, and for me, hope. A few weeks ago, Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) was in the news for...Read More