FoA 366: Agriculture, Economics, and Data with Aaron Smith, Ph.D.

<p><a href="https://www.calgaryagbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Find out how Calgary is leading the agribusiness revolution</a>: www.CalgaryAgbusiness.com</p><p><a href="https://agdatanews.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe to Ag Data News</a>: https://agdatanews.substack.com/</p><p><a href="https://asmith.ucdavis.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aaron Smith Website</a>: https://asmith.ucdavis.edu/</p><p><a href="https://asmith.ucdavis.edu/data/ag-data-where-do-i-find-it" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ag Data: Where Do I Find It?</a>: https://asmith.ucdavis.edu/data/ag-data-where-do-i-find-it</p><p><a href="https://aifs.ucdavis.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Artificial Intelligence Institute for Next Generation Food Systems</a>: https://aifs.ucdavis.edu/</p><p><a href="https://solvet.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alberta Veterinary Laboratories / Solvet</a>: https://solvet.ca/</p><p>today’s episode features Dr. Aaron Smith. Aaron’s newsletter, which I highly recommend, covers a wide range of food and ag topics, so fittingly, we cover several in today’s episode as well. I have learned a lot from reading Aaron’s work, and I appreciate his approach as a data-driven teacher and communicator. Certainly part of my motivation to get him on the show was selfish, because this is an area I want to improve in as well. I’m only half-joking when I say it’s selfish, because I do think this is an area all of us will benefit from improving in.&nbsp;</p><p>Aaron and I discuss increasing the accessibility of ag data, some basic research skills, his approach to ag data news, and how the data has informed some of his thoughts on topics ranging from biofuels to carbon sequestration to pineapple production and beyond.&nbsp;</p><p>Some more about Aaron: he is the DeLoach Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he has been since 2001. Originally from New Zealand