Farm Simulator (for nerds)
I recently received some very good news that a journal article my friend and I coauthored and put under review was finally accepted for publication in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics . The article is titled, "Adapting network theory for spatial network externalities in agriculture: A case study on hemp cross-pollination". Rolls right off the tongue, no? The idea came to me one night when a group of Murray State ag faculty, local farmers, and hemp processors met for a dinner with the USDA Office of the General Counsel at the Big Apple Grill & Bar in town (highly recommend, if you're ever in Murray, KY). One farmer during the conversation spoke up and said he grew hemp for CBD production in a specific field that year, but was going to switch to growing hemp for fiber or grain in that field the next year. Turns out, a neighboring field was growing hemp for fiber, it shed its pollen, the pollen landed on the flowers of the first farmer's hemp (detrimen...