Impact
No-Till Farming Study Shows Benefit to Midwestern Land Values
The analysis quantifies the monetary land value benefits of an environmentally friendly practice.
3 Faculty Awarded AAEA Best Paper
Zheng Li, Roderick Rejesus and Xiaoyong Zheng won the award for their paper, “Nonparametric Estimation and Inference of Production Risk.”
From Robots to Customers: Exploring New Opportunities for Dairy Farmers
Assistant Professor Alejandro Gutierrez-Li won a $250,000 Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant to study Automatic Milking Systems.
Eric Edwards Selected for AEPP Best Article Award
Eric Edwards was selected to receive the AEPP Best Article Award for “The Economics of Groundwater Governance Institutions across the Globe.”
Daniel Tregeagle Receives Outstanding Published Paper Award
Daniel Tregeagle received an Outstanding Published Paper Award for his work on “Balancing Bees and Pest Management: Projected Costs of Proposed Bee-protective Neonicotinoid Regulation in California.”
ARE Economist Joins the Fight to Curb the Effects of Invasive Nematode on SweetPotatoes
Daniel Tregeagle will conduct economic analysis to determine the costs of adopting new growing methods to stop the spread of the guava root-knot nematode.
Students Learn What Ag Lending Bank Seeks from Recent Grads
Representatives from First Bank visited ABM students to provide an industry update and give insight into what characteristics they look for when recruiting recent grads.
‘Ominous News’ for Jobs? Openings Across Triangle Drop, Data Shows
Mike Walden tells WRAL: “Bottom line: Business executives, even in fast growing regions such as the Triangle, may be pausing to access how the economy could be changing.”
New Fact Sheet Published on Wetlands Law
This publication provides an overview of the historical wetland trends in North Carolina, reviews the evolution and current status of wetland regulations and summarizes the potential impacts of climate change on wetlands in NC.
How Inflation and Gas Prices are Affecting the Housing Market
Mike Walden tells WRAL that interest rates are likely to rise a couple percentage points to address inflation. Unfortunately, this may squeeze potential homebuyers out of the real estate market.