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A typical household spends only a few dollars per week on eggs, but seemingly everyone has been talking about egg prices this winter. That is what happens when a product most people buy quintuples in price. The proximate cause of the price spike was

Mar 16

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The humble potato is a staple of diets throughout the world. It originated in Peru before spreading through the world in the 1500s. Some historians…

Mar 1

The new wave of agricultural technology will enable machines to take over tasks that people used to do. Robots that weed fields and harvest crops will…

Feb 4

Growing up on a sheep farm in New Zealand, two tasks that sometimes fell to me were digging out thistles and spraying barley grass. It was important to…

Jan 21

New Zealand Faces a Hard Trade-Off

Jan 13

I published 44 Ag Data News articles in 2022 (including this one). Five of them were written by students in my ARE 231 class. Here are the 7 most read…

Dec 29, 2022

Frenchman Karim Benzema was awarded the Ballon d’Or as the world best soccer player in 2022. The award capped a roller coaster career in which he first…

Dec 22, 2022

This article was written by UC Davis ARE PhD students Yao Ma and Zhiran Qin. It is the fifth of six excellent articles written by students in my ARE 231…

Dec 16, 2022

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