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There's a  nice article  in the New York Times about farmland prices.  The article suggests (as do most NYT articles on land values) th...

In a recent post I wrote about why rainfall is sometimes given too much credit for variations in crop production. Or, put differently, te...

Apologies for the lack of posting. Should pick up more soon. Meanwhile, my kids are celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday at school today. So...

Getting trustworthy data on rainfall and temperature over space and time is really critical to science across a range of disciplines. Sadly...

There is now a voluminous literature seeking to understand links between climate and various types of human conflict.  So far th...

One of the things I’ve been puzzling over lately is why so many agronomists and others in agriculture seem to have the mantra that July ra...

Quantitative estimates of the potential impacts of future climate change are an important input to policy discussions, and researchers acro...

If you ever want to scare an economist, the two words "omitted variable" will usually do the trick. I was not trained in an econ...

A growing literature in paleoclimate and archeology explores the extent to which past fluctuations in climate have shaped the evolution of ...

Last week at AGU I gave a talk about the lessons of the US corn harvest in 2011 and 2012, both of which were below trend line (see figure)...