Odds and Ends

Dashboards, Decision Tools, and Other Websites

  • The Maine Farmers Market Price Report – Up-to-date and market-specific price data is important to farm businesses as they refine business plans, apply for financing, and manage day-to-day operations. The Maine Farmers Market Price Report is a collaboration among agricultural service providers throughout the state of Maine, who are working together to meet this need.
  • Cover Crop Cost Estimator Tool – Along with my graduate students and colleagues in the School of Food and Agriculture and Cooperative Extension, I developed the Cover Crop Cost Estimator Tool to help farmers make more informed decisions about cover crop strategies. The tool helps farmers create a series of enterprise budgets, using historical or projected data, to consider the suitability of cover cropping in a farmer’s overall management plan.
  • Game Theory Tournament Games – As part of my usual teaching schedule, I teach an undergraduate course in game theory. The central feature of this course is a semester-long tournament in which the students play versions of classic game theory games against one another. Recently, I have begun developing these games using Otree to facilitate more interesting and more flexible games.
  • Cost and Returns to Irrigation in Wild Blueberry Systems (coming soon) – Like the Cover Crop Cost Estimator Tool, this dashboard will help farmers anticipate the costs and returns to investing in various irrigation systems for the management of Maine wild blueberries.

Project and Research Group Pages

Webinars and Recorded Talks

  • CGIAR Standing Panel on Impactd Assessment Webinar – “Resilience benefits of bundling drought tolerant maize with index insurance in Tanzania and Mozambique” (available here)
  • MRR Innovation Lab Webinar – “Enabling Tech Adoption Through Learning” (available here)