Economic Measurement in the Agricultural Sector
Organized by Timothy Beatty and Wolfram Schlenker
Supported by the US Department of Agriculture
November 6, 2026
Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC
Thursday, November 5
6:00 pm
Dinner
Friday, November 6
8:00 am
Breakfast
8:30 am
Introductions
8:40 am

Subsidy Capture and Monopsony Power in U.S. Grain Markets

Emma du Puy, Sciences Po
Marguerite Obolensky, Northwestern University
Roberto Zuniga, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Discussant:
GianCarlo Moschini, Iowa State University
9:25 am

Input Procurement Behavior in United States Agriculture: Evidence and Insights from the National Level Data

Anil K. Giri, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Dipak Subedi, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Madhav Regmi, New Mexico State University
Aditya Khanal, Tennessee State University

Discussant:
Michael J. Roberts, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am

Addressing Bias from Misclassification in Predicted Data: Theory and Application to Satellite Crop Data

Arthur R. Wardle, Montana State University

Discussant:
Dan Kluger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:25 am

Mind the Gap: Improving Water Markets with Field-Level Remote Sensing

Katherine Wright, Hillsdale College
Andrew B. Ayres, University of Nevada - Reno
Bryan Leonard, University of Wyoming

Discussant:
Fiona Burlig, The University of Chicago and NBER
12:10 pm
Lunch
Eggtimer Presentations
1:20 pm

Measuring Livestock from Space: Global and U.S. Evidence on the Detection, Attribution, and Limits of Satellite Methane

Jianwei Ai, Cornell University
Qinan Lu, Peking University
Wendong Zhang, Cornell University
1:30 pm

Do Dairy Digesters Reduce Methane Emissions? Evidence from Airborne Remote Sensing

Lauren Beatty, Environmental Defense Fund
David McLaughlin, Environmental Defense Fund
Wendong Zhang, Cornell University
Jasmin Wehner, Cornell University
Mei Mei Collins, University of California, Berkeley
1:40 pm

Investment Booms and Natural Resources

Pedro Gete, IE University, IE Business School
Michael Reher, University of California, San Diego
Athena Tsouderou, University of Miami, Herbert Business School
1:50 pm

Propagation of Extreme Heat in Agriculture Across Sectors and Space

Guglielmo Zappalà, Bocconi University
2:00 pm

Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story

Seula Kim, The Pennsylvania State University
Michael A. Navarrete, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
2:10 pm

Do Farm Payments Raise Cash Rents? Evidence from Commodity Programs and Ad Hoc Assistance

Ming Wang, North Dakota State University
Yifei Zhang, North Dakota State University
Dylan Turner, North Dakota State University
Shawn Arita, North Dakota State University
2:20 pm

Vertical Disintegration and the Shifting Boundary of the Farm Business: Implications for Agricultural Productivity

Anton Babkin, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Richard A. Dunn, Sandhill Consulting
Brent Hueth, U.S. Department of Agriculture
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Welfare Gains from Market Integration Under Competing Land Uses

Dustin Frye, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jeffrey Hadachek, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant:
Heitor S. Pellegrina, University of Notre Dame
3:45 pm

Measuring the Household Impacts of Automated Production in U.S. Agriculture: Evidence from Auto-Steer

Jonathan R. McFadden, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Alicia Rosburg, University of Northern Iowa
4:30 pm
Adjourn