A minor in agricultural economics is a powerful addition to many of UW’s bachelor’s degrees. In any field — from animal and plant sciences to wildlife management or nursing — a minor in agricultural ...

Albulena Basha (BS ’15) is currently pursuing a PhD degree in the field of agricultural economics at Iowa State University’s Department of Economics, which is ranked as the world’s third-best ...

Despite recession warnings and adverse precursors in 2022, the United States’ economy performed better than predicted in 2023. Purdue University Department of Agricultural Economics experts now look ...

Chris Bastian, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, recently was appointed as a Fellow in the Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA).

Long before it became a cliché, there were many heroes who never wore capes. I met one: the rail-thin, then 86-year-old Theodore W. Schultz, in his sun-filled, University of Chicago office on a cold, ...

New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop varieties that resulted in global benefits to the environment and food system ...

World Agricultural Production (WAP) is a monthly report produced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Foreign Agricultural Service. This report gives data on crop acreage, yield and ...

Millions of cell tower pings from dating, weather, messaging and other mobile apps that use location-sharing services are helping agricultural economists better understand how farmworkers respond to ...

According to a new study, between 2017 and 2022 the Wisconsin agricultural production and food processing sectors increased 10.9 percent. A newly released study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Agricultural economics is a multifaceted discipline that integrates economic principles with the complexities of food production, rural development, and sustainable natural resource management. At its ...