The American Agricultural Economics Association held its annual conference in Atlanta last week. I attended one session that included several…
Author: Diane Charlton
Diane Charlton
Diane Charlton is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. She received her Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis. She has done research on agricultural labor markets in Mexico and the United States along with researching the determinants of migration. She never tires of talking about agriculture with her sister and brother-in-law from their almond orchard in the Central Valley of California, and she is looking forward to learning more about and researching agricultural production in Montana and the northern Great Plains.
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In a recent study, my coauthors and I find that real U.S. farm wages would have to rise by more than…
Nonmetro population grew in 2016-17 for the first time in a decade. Declining rural unemployment, rising incomes, and declining poverty…
Last week I attended a conference at the World Bank on The Future of Work in Agriculture. We discussed rural-to-urban…
Three controversial bills were recently introduced in the Montana legislature to prohibit restaurants from providing single-use straws unless requested by…