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"Economic Considerations of Growing Bee-Friendly Cover Crops in Almond Orchards: Grower and Beekeeper Perspectives" by Marieke Fenton and Brittney Goodrich

Feb. 17, 2023

Planting bee-friendly cover crops in almond orchards can improve honey bee colony health and lower beekeepers’ costs of feeding, while also providing soil health benefits. However, for the full bee-health …

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"Canadian-U.S. Dairy Trade Dispute: A Tempest in a Teapot" by Madeline Turland, Rick Barichello and Colin Carter

Feb. 17, 2023

Canada and the United States have a long history of a strong trading relationship, but these neighbors have had several agri-cultural trade disputes. The most recent was initiated in 2020 …

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"How Well Are California’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes Working?" by Hairu Lang, Kristin Kiesel and Richard Sexton

Feb. 17, 2023

California is home to four of eight active local sugar-sweetened beverage (soda) taxes in the United States. The ability of additional California localities to impose soda taxes has been foreclosed …

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"Developments in the Avocado Sector and Their Implications for California Producers and Consumers" by James Sayre

Dec. 22, 2022

Avocado consumption per capita in the United States has tripled in twenty years, yet California has decreased its bearing acreage over the last decade. One state in Mexico has primarily …

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"Dryland Cropping May Present a Cost-Effective Response to Dust From Idled Lands" by Andrew B. Ayres and Caitlin A. Peterson

Dec. 22, 2022

Agricultural lands idled to reduce groundwater demand in California’s Central Valley can generate dust and pose risks for rural communities. To avoid the worst impacts, it may be necessary to …

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"A Declining Farm Labor Supply Could Cost California Farmers Billions" by Zachariah Rutledge and Pierre Mérel

Dec. 22, 2022

We analyze fruit and vegetable production and farm employment data to quantify the production and value losses from a declining supply of farm labor. We find that reduced labor availability …

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"Certified Transitional Labels Hope To Increase Organic Conversion, but Few Know What They Mean" by Ashley Spalding

Oct. 27, 2022

Transitional organic certification programs seek to create a premium market for crops in years two and three of the three-year organic conversion process, but few survey respondents know what certified …

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"Agriculture and the Social Cost of Carbon" by Maximilian Auffhammer

Oct. 27, 2022

Putting a number on the economic damage from the emissions of greenhouse gases is a difficult undertaking. Recent advances in statistical methods, exponentially growing computing power, and the ever-increasing availability …

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"California Almond Industry Harmed by International Trade Issues" by Colin Carter and Sandro Steinbach

Oct. 27, 2022

California almond tree acreage has expanded by roughly three-fold since 2000. As a result, the industry relies more on foreign buyers to purchase the growing supply of almonds. Combined with …

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"Does Better Information Increase Fishery Profits?" by Gabriel Englander, Larry S. Karp and Leo K. Simon

Aug. 23, 2022

In the world’s largest fishery, we find that better information about the location and size of fish populations would decrease fishery profits. This counterintuitive result occurs because the congestion costs …

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