Jesse Tack

Ag economist focused on production and risk. Professor at Kansas State University. Former Co-editor at AJAE. Photo from

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Joint work with Kristiina Ala-Kokko, Shawn Arita, Vincent Breneman, Joseph Cooper, and Grant Gardner; published in the recent special issue of the Agricultural Finance Review on Financing Resilient Food Systems. Link here:

https://t.co/JsmMvucWy0

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Is your supply chain resilient to weather fluctuations? How can you quantify this risk exposure?

Extreme weather shocks don��t just affect yields—they reshape global supply chains.

How resilient are those networks?

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While we focus on ag commodities and international trade, the framework applies broadly to other supply chain networks...

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Because in agriculture, technology doesn’t just diffuse; it evolves in a biological arms race.

Co-authored with Lanier Nalley, Michael Gore, Courtney Cooper, Erin Farmer, Petronella Chaminuka, and Safiah Maali. Available here:

https://t.co/CoDcTggX2r

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Pest damage isn’t static — it moves in cycles. And so does resilience. The catch? We rarely know which phase we’re in—and the hidden production losses can be substantial. A 🧵 for our new paper in @NatureComms ...

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In fact, the erosion phase alone implies massive (often latent) aggregate losses in production, which we quantify in millions(!) of lost food rations.

So the real question isn’t just:

“What is the yield gain from Bt?”

It’s:

“What is the value of staying ahead of resistance?”

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Once again we see how agricultural economists are contributing foundational research to the broader research community.

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New paper: https://t.co/UhJKtzKlvy

One section of our recent @_Food_Policy review article focuses on #ClimateChange econometrics in agriculture, in which we highlight how the Schlenker–Roberts approach has proven robust across multiple crops, regions, and empirical strategies 🧵

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It reveals a clear lineage of applied climate–agriculture econometrics that has grown from this work.