Dear AFRE Alumni, Supporters, and Friends:. Join us in celebrating 75 years of @MSUAFRE! Register for the event today by clicking on the link: We hope to see you at the celebration in September!

RT @MSUAgBio: MSU AgBioResearch is highlighting new faculty hired through the Agricultural Resiliency Program. Tor Tolhurst is an assistant….

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Vincenzina Caputo who was honored with a 2025 CANR Established Mid-Career Researcher Award!

Congratulations to all of our @AfreGso students who graduated in the AFRE Class of 2025!!! We commend you on your years of hard work and determination! We can't wait to see how you continue your impact on agriculture and natural resources!

We are incredibly proud of our graduate students like @jmartinezr_ who make incredible impacts in the classroom! Congratulations Jose María Martínez!.

Congratulations to Dr. Soji Adelaja for receiving the 2025 African Philanthropist Award! He is an incredible researcher, educator, mentor, and human!

Registration is open for the 2025 Workshop on Survey Design and Experimental Methods in Applied and Agricultural Economics! Make sure to RSVP today to claim your spot!.

RT @MSUIntl: Congrats to ISP's very own @TitusAwokuse who has been recommended as @michiganstateu's next vice provost and dean for Internat….

RT @FarmPolicy: The outlook for the #rural #economy in 2025 is volatile and uncertain, CoBank said. The outcome of the 2024 election promis….

Check out the new MSU Custom Work Rates Report to analyze farm profitability! A special thanks to Zach Rutledge, Steven Miller, and Corey Clark: .

Thanks to the faculty and graduate students of @MSUAFRE & @AfreGso who participated in the AFRE Holiday Food Drive. We collected 57 pounds of food, personal hygiene, and misc. supplies and $500 dollars cash to donate to the MSU Student Food Bank to use this holiday season!.

With increased tariffs on the table under the new administration, take look at which products may become more expensive. @MSUAFRE's @dlortega and others shared their expertise with the @washingtonpost in this latest article:

Congratulations to Dr. Craig Carpenter, who has consistently impacted our discipline! What a wonderful honor!.

8/8 in it in the academic statement portion of your application to the AFRE M.S. or Ph.D. program. Application materials deemed admissible by the AFRE graduate admissions committee will then be shared by the admissions committee with Dr. Sears for further consideration.

7/8 Environmental Engineering, MSU Extension, and AFRE. The RA position is for an average of 20 hours of work per week and includes stipend, tuition, and health insurance benefits. To express interest in this RA opportunity, please mention the position and why you are interested.

6/8 The student will be joining an interdisciplinary team of researchers from across MSU, including faculty and students from the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, the Department of Civil and.

5/8 The ideal candidate will have:. A background or strong interest in agricultural and/or environmental economics. Experience with data analysis and discrete choice modeling (preferably in R or Stata). An ability to work both independently and in a team environment.

4/8adoption will change under mid-century climate conditions, and its potential impact on water quality, water availability, and crop production. Results will be used to develop a decision support tool, as well as academic research articles.

3/8 (i) assessing the costs, benefits, and environmental effects of climate-smart practices to aid in producer decision-making; (ii) estimating the likelihood of climate-smart practice adoption, conditional on weather, farm, and household characteristics; and (iii) simulating how.

2/8 This project focuses on identifying effective irrigation and climate-smart strategies to support resilient, profitable, and environmentally beneficial farming practices in the face of changing climate conditions. The RA will contribute to three primary objectives:.

1/8 AFRE faculty member Dr. Molly Sears is seeking to hire an incoming AFRE M.S. or Ph.D. student as an RA to support a project funded by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) on climate resilience in Michigan’s agricultural sector.