Why Everyone Should Care About Food Safety

More Farmers Are Enrolling in Crop Insurance Due to Extreme Heat

A new paper finds that a decline in crop yield due to extreme heat boosts insurance enrollment for corn and soybeans the following year.

Managing Heat Risk: Crop Insurance and Rural Economic Resilience

This working paper explores how extreme heat impacts crop insurance enrollment, finding that declines in crop yield from extreme heat do, in fact, increase enrollment.

In Focus: The Conservation Reserve Program

In this In Focus video, Fellow Yanjun (Penny) Liao talks about her recent research on the Conservation Reserve Program.

Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance, with Dan Egan

Dan Egan sheds light on the wacky history of phosphorus and its role in agriculture and algal blooms, as water pollution persists in the Great Lakes.