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Collated List of Articles

  • by Aaron Smith
  • September 10, 2022

I post Ag Data News articles every Wednesday.  At least, Wednesday is my goal. Sometimes, other work gets in the way and I'm a day or two late. Here's a convenient list of past articles based on whether they include R code, use data from our apps, address the effects of events or policies, or were written in my ARE 231 class.

I am now cross-posting Ag Data News on substack, partly because it makes managing the email list easy and partly to expand my audience. 

My most-read articles in my first year doing this (5/27/20-5/26/21):  It's Been a Year

OK, here's the collated list ...

A. Articles containing R code

  1. Big Drop in California Rice Acres (8/24/22)
  2. Cows Eat Almonds Too (8/17/22)
  3. Who Eats California Crops (8/10/22)
  4. Are We Running Out Of Chickpeas? (7/27/22)
  5. Do They Still Grow Pineapples in Hawaii? (7/6/22)
  6. The Gas Tax Holiday is a Bad Idea (6/22/22)
  7. New Zealand Agriculture Proposes To Tax Itself, But How Much? (6/15/22)
  8. Where is the Wheat? (6/1/22)
  9. Was I Wrong About the Global Food Crisis and Inflation? (5/18/22)
  10. Is this Another Handout to Farmers? (4/28/22)
  11. Ukraine, Russia, and Sunflowers (4/20/22)
  12. Russia, Ukraine, and Food Supply: Look at the Prices (3/30/22)
  13. Changing Ethanol Policy Isn't Going to Help (3/16/22)
  14. We're Not Facing a Global Food Crisis (3/9/22)
  15. Environmental Outcomes of the Renewable Fuel Standard (2/16/22)
  16. NYT Comes Out Swinging (2/9/22)
  17. The Dairy Cow Manure Goldrush (2/2/22)
  18. Acreage of Major Crops Isn't Increasing (1/12/22)
  19. The Monopolistic Meatpackers (1/5/22)
  20. Rice Flood in South Korea: Oversupply in the Korean Rice Market (12/8/21)
  21. The Soybeans and the Forests (12/6/21)
  22. EPA to Revoke All Tolerances Chlorpyrifos (12/1/21)
  23. Mexican Tomatoes are Winning the American Market (11/24/21)
  24. Split Over Bananas - How China and India are Meeting Demand (11/19/21)
  25. The Bitter Taste of Coffee Shortages (11/10/21)
  26. Tequila and Mezcal: What about Agave? (11/3/21)
  27. Pumpkin Season in America (10/27/21)
  28. More of our Food is Coming from Big Farms Far Away (10/20/21)
  29. Which Sweetener is the Best? (10/13/21)
  30. All About Olive City (10/6/21)
  31. Did Biden's EPA Betray Farmers on Biofuels? (9/22/21)
  32. What is Inflation? (9/15/21)
  33. Sri Lanka Goes Organic (9/8/21)
  34. Which Milk Substitute is the Best? (8/25/21)
  35. The Drought Hasn't Reduced California Crop Acres Much. Yet. (8/18/21)
  36. Is California Shadow Banning Bacon? (8/4/21)
  37. If Only There Were a Crop You Could Grow Without Water (6/30/21)
  38. How Mixed Up is California Agriculture? (6/23/21)
  39. When the Water Dries Up, Farmers Fallow Fields (6/16/21)
  40. I Hear the RD Train a Comin' (6/2/21)
  41. Don't Worry About Food Price Inflation (5/19/21)
  42. A California Avocado Hass Taken Over the World (5/5/21)
  43. Making Hay While the Water Flows (4/21/21)
  44. Assessing Fire Damage to the 2020 Wine Grape Crop (4/14/21)
  45. It Seems Like Farmers Should be Planting More Crops (4/7/21)
  46. What is a Farm? (3/24/21)
  47. Which Chicken Sandwich is the Best? (3/17/21)
  48. Daylight Saving is Good, Actually (3/10/21)
  49. One Bee for Every 20 Nuts (3/3/21)
  50. It Pays to be Big (2/24/21)/
  51. A Crushing Crush Report (2/17/21)
  52. What's Worth More: A Cow's Milk or its Poop? (2/3/21)
  53. Bill Gates Doesn't Own That Much Farmland (1/27/21)
  54. All In On Grass Seed (1/20/21)
  55. Good Times Down on the Farm (1/6/21)
  56. Stagnating Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (12/4/20)
  57. Something in the Water (12/2/20)
  58. Too Many Cranberries (11/25/20)
  59. California Wine: Raisin Awareness (11/20/20)
  60. Oats are Trending (11/18/20)
  61. Shelling out for Peanuts (11/11/20)
  62. New Zealand Farmers Don't Want the Government's Money (10/28/20)
  63. Governments Like to Support Farmers (10/21/20)
  64. Mandate It and (Hope) It will Come (10/7/20)
  65. The World is Full of Hoppiness (9/23/20)
  66. China's Buying US Corn Again (9/9/20)
  67. California: We Grow That. And That. And That (7/22/20)
  68. Everyone, Look East (7/1/20)

The R code is linked in the articles and much of it is also available under "Examples" in our Accessing Ag Data Using R data app.

B. Articles using data from our apps

  1. Big Drop in California Rice Acres (8/24/22)
  2. Who Eats California Crops (8/10/22)
  3. Where is the Wheat? (6/1/22)
  4. Low-Carbon Fuels Retake the Lead in California's LCFS Race (5/11/22)
  5. California Wine: Down, Up, and Sideways (5/4/22)
  6. Ag Data: Where Do I Find It? (4/13/22)
  7. We're Not Facing a Global Food Crisis (3/9/22)
  8. Is Texas Taking all the Water (2/23/22)
  9. The Dairy Cow Manure Goldrush (2/2/22)
  10. The 2021 Drought Wasn't Just a West Coast Thing (1/19/22)
  11. Acreage of Major Crops Isn't Increasing (1/12/22)
  12. How Much Did Soybean Farmers Lose in the Trade War? (9/29/21)
  13. The Drought Hasn't Reduced California Crop Acres Much. Yet. (8/18/21)
  14. Methane: Put Another Log on the Fire (8/11/21)
  15. If Only There Were a Crop You Could Grow Without Water (6/30/21)
  16. When the Water Dries Up, Farmers Fallow Fields (6/16/21)
  17. How Much Do California Farmers Really Produce? (6/9/21)
  18. I Hear the RD Train a Comin' (6/2/21)
  19. California Dreamin' (5/12/21)
  20. Making Hay While the Water Flows (4/21/21)
  21. Assessing Fire Damage to the 2020 Wine Grape Crop (4/14/21)
  22. Was the Stuck Ship a Big Deal? (3/31/21)
  23. One Bee for Every 20 Nuts (3/3/21)
  24. What's Worth More: A Cow's Milk or its Poop? (2/3/21)
  25. All In On Grass Seed (1/20/21)
  26. Always Take the Weather With You (1/13/21)
  27. Good Times Down on the Farm (1/6/21)
  28. America's Salad Bowl (12/23/20)
  29. Cotton Crop Insurance Bursting at the Seams (12/21/20)
  30. Something in the Water (12/2/20)
  31. California Wine: Raisin Awareness (11/20/20)
  32. Crop Insurance is only Appealing if it's Subsidized (11/4/20) 
  33. Early Warning System for Futures Market Nonconvergence (10/14/20)
  34. Mandate It and (Hope) It will Come (10/7/20)
  35. What They’ve Done in California is Just Crazy. Or is it? (9/30/20)
  36. China's Buying US Corn Again (9/9/20)
  37. Wining About Wildfire Smoke (8/19/20)
  38. Everyone is Good at Something (8/12/20)
  39. Is EV Battery Technology Goodenough?  (8/5/20)
  40. I Need Fuel (7/29/20)
  41. O Canada (7/8/20)
  42. Sorghum: It's Still a Thing (6/24/20)
  43. Use Someone Else's Big Computer (6/17/20)
  44. Eyes in the Sky (6/10/20)
  45. Why Soybeans? (6/3/20)
  46. California's Gone Nuts (5/27/20)

C. Articles on the effects of events or policies

  1. Big Drop in California Rice Acres (8/24/22)
  2. I Should Get Credit for my Trees (8/3/22)
  3. The Gas Tax Holiday is a Bad Idea (6/22/22)
  4. New Zealand Agriculture Proposes To Tax Itself, But How Much? (6/15/22)
  5. Where is the Wheat? (6/1/22)
  6. Was I Wrong About the Global Food Crisis and Inflation? (5/18/22)
  7. Low-Carbon Fuels Retake the Lead in California's LCFS Race (5/11/22)
  8. Is this Another Handout to Farmers? (4/28/22)
  9. Ukraine, Russia, and Sunflowers (4/20/22)
  10. Environmental Outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard: A Reply (4/6/22))
  11. Russia, Ukraine, and Food Supply: Look at the Prices (3/30/22)
  12. Changing Ethanol Policy Isn't Going to Help (3/16/22)
  13. We're Not Facing a Global Food Crisis (3/9/22)
  14. The Story of Rising Fertilizer Prices (3/2/22)
  15. Environmental Outcomes of the Renewable Fuel Standard (2/16/22)
  16. The Dairy Cow Manure Goldrush (2/2/22)
  17. Can Farmers Reverse Climate Change Through Carbon Farming? (1/26/22)
  18. The 2021 Drought Wasn't Just a West Coast Thing (1/19/22)
  19. The Monopolistic Meatpackers (1/5/22)
  20. Why are Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions So Difficult? (12/29/21)
  21. Which Sweetener is the Best? (10/13/21)
  22. How Much Did Soybean Farmers Lose in the Trade War? (9/29/21)
  23. Did Biden's EPA Betray Farmers on Biofuels? (9/22/21)
  24. What is Inflation? (9/17/21)
  25. Sri Lanka Goes Organic (9/8/21)
  26. The Future(s) of Water Trading (9/1/21)
  27. Methane: Put Another Log on the Fire (8/11/21)
  28. Is California Shadow Banning Bacon? (8/4/21)
  29. Taking the Tractor to Town (7/21/21)
  30. Pollution Hurts Plants Too (7/7/21)
  31. When the Water Dries Up, Farmers Fallow Fields (6/16/21)
  32. Don't Worry About Food Price Inflation (5/19/21)
  33. Should I Feel Guilty for Eating Beef? (5/28/21)
  34. Assessing Fire Damage to the 2020 Wine Grape Crop (4/14/21)
  35. Was the Stuck Ship a Big Deal? (3/31/21)
  36. Daylight Saving is Good, Actually (3/10/21)
  37. It Pays to be Big (2/24/21)
  38. It Matters Whether We Use Carrots Or Sticks (2/11/21)
  39. What's Worth More: A Cow's Milk or its Poop? (2/4/21)
  40. New Zealand Farmers Don't Want the Government's Money (10/28/20)
  41. Early Warning System for Futures Market Nonconvergence (10/14/20)
  42. Mandate It and (Hope) It will Come (10/7/20)
  43. What They’ve Done in California is Just Crazy. Or is it? (9/30/20)
  44. Did Climate Change Cause the Wildfires? (9/16/20)
  45. China's Buying US Corn Again (9/9/20)
  46. How Much Did Iowa's Massive Windstorm Affect Crops? (9/2/20)
  47. Wining About Wildfire Smoke (8/19/20)
  48. Is EV Battery Technology Goodenough?  (8/5/20)
  49. I Need Fuel (7/29/20)

  50. Should You Buy Burger King's New Low-Fart Burger? (7/15/20)

D. Articles written by ARE 231 students in Fall 2021

  1. Rice Flood in South Korea: Oversupply in the Korean Rice Market (12/8/21)
  2. The Soybeans and the Forests (12/6/21)
  3. EPA to Revoke All Tolerances Chlorpyrifos (12/1/21)
  4. Mexican Tomatoes are Winning the American Market (11/24/21)
  5. Split Over Bananas - How China and India are Meeting Demand (11/19/21)
  6. Please Give Me French Fries, Not McNuggets In My Burger Meal (11/17/21)
  7. The Bitter Taste of Coffee Shortages (11/10/21)
  8. Tequila and Mezcal: What about Agave? (11/3/21)

E. Articles written by ARE 231 students in Fall 2020

  1. Could We Pay Corn Farmers to Sequester Carbon? by Andrew Swanson (12/9/20)
  2. Stagnating Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa by Isaac Ahimbisibwe (12/4/20)
  3. Something in the Water by Jeffrey Hadachek (12/2/20)
  4. Too Many Cranberries by Joseph Raymond (11/25/20)
  5. California Wine: Raisin Awareness by Kelly Wu and Sean Kiely (11/20/20)
  6. Oats are Trending by Scott Somerville (11/18/20)
  7. In Which States Will Agriculture Lose Most from Climate Change? by Goeun Lee (11/13/20)
  8. Shelling out for Peanuts by Madeline Turland and Devin Serfas (11/11/20)