Votes are in! Congratulations to Timothy Beatty our incoming President-Elect, and our new Board members, Vincenzina Caputo and Ashok Mishra. Thank you to all candidates for running!

Congratulations to UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics professor Timothy Beatty!

Brent and Keller are UCD enterprising undergraduate students who started this excellent podcast to learn and share more about what research faculty in a university do. I am very happy to be the guest in their most recent episode. x.com/discvr_academi…

Congratulations to ARE Professor Emeritus Jim Wilen and ESP Professor Jim Sanchirico for receiving the 2023 AERE’s Publication of Enduring Quality Award for their 1999 publication “Bioeconomics of Spatial Exploitation in a Patchy Environment”—bit.ly/3NeazOQ

“It’s the ratio of weight to value that really matters here,” said Daniel Sumner ⁦UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics⁩ tells ⁦Ｊｅｓｓｅ Ｈｉｒｓｃｈ ⁦Ambrook Research⁩. “I really can’t afford to drive a truck full of milk very far before it’s just not worth hauling it.” ambrook.com/research/suppl…

Very excited that my paper co-authored with Ashish Shenoy UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics is forthcoming at #JEBO and available for free download until Aug 13 2023 authors.elsevier.com/a/1hIt0c24b3SJj. Thanks to many, incl J-PAL South Asia Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics UCSDEcon

Some specialty crop growers in CA (and elsewhere) may be interested in this. New insurance programs coming for: •Alfalfa seed •Cultivated wild rice •Forage production •Mint* •Onions* •Potatoes*

Congratulations Joakim Weill—Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Richard J. Sexton for receiving the 2023 AAEA Mentoring Award

ARE at UC Davis is hiring in Agricultural Economics again this year. We are committed to building the best AgEcon group in the world. Come join us! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06067

OCSPP Job Opportunity: Economist (Senior) GS-0110-15 in OPP/BEAD/EAB View the specifics of the announcement here: usajobs.gov/job/762287800 The vacancy is scheduled to close December 4, 2023. Announcement Number: EPA-MC-ODH-2024-0002

Congratulations to the incoming 2024 Class of AAEA Fellows! Titus Awokuse, Oral Capps, Steven Deller, Rachael Goodhue, Tom Marsh, & Alfons Weersink

Congrats to all! Especially to Rachael who has been a wonderful mentor, friend and colleague! UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics

A 20% increase in the $ of groundwater in the Pajaro Valley resulted in a 20% decrease in the extraction of groundwater, found a UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics UC Berkeley study cited in The New York Times. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

A hearty Aggie hooray for agricultural economist Rachael Goodhue, a UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics professor who was named a 2024 fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association for her significant contributions, leadership & scholarship! spr.ly/6018rVByn

Read new article by ARE Distinguished Professor Colin Carter and co-author Cesar Revoredo-Giha in forthcoming Summer 2024 issue of CID (Commodity Insights Digest), "Financialization and Speculators Risk Premia in Commodity Futures Markets" Available here: bit.ly/3T7g2Ke

We (Alexandra Hill) and I are hiring a collaborator (Postdoc) with expertise in M/L models to work on Occupational Health and Safety in agriculture. Position is based at UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics and is available for two years to start. Applications open: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06331 Please Retweet!

Are you interested in measuring the impact of weather/climate on outcomes of interest? Do you observe the weather variables at a higher frequency? Wondering how you should choose between different models and their implied climate projections? Pleased to share our recent JoE+code

Congrats to Tim Beatty, the new chair of the #UCDavis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics)! Among his priorities include launching a new business major in 2025, supporting students and faculty & maintaining program excellence. caes.ucdavis.edu/news/tim-beatt…

The ARE Department @UCDavis is pleased to announce an open assistant professor position in econometrics: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06720