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
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
Defining agribusiness in the production ecosystem model, left many aspects unaccounted, such as dollar value. Another model must more accurately reflect the business of agriculture in the US...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
Forty years after I began my college education (1976), I began my full-time teaching career in agribusiness and economics (2016). In 1976, there was no such thing as...Read More