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Alfons Weersink

Alfons Weersink

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
44
Citations
7110
World Ranking
1880
National Ranking
46

Overview

Alfons Weersink is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada, specializing primarily in agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans several subfields including soil science, economics and econometrics, general agricultural and biological sciences, agronomy and crop science, and plant science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics within agriculture, focusing notably on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, agricultural innovations and practices, soil and water nutrient dynamics, crop yield and soil fertility, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, economics of agriculture and food markets, and agricultural risk and resilience.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Alfons Weersink include Aaron De Laporte, Claudia Wagner-Riddle, Mike von Massow, Nicholas Bannon, and Daniel Schuurman.

Major publication venues where their work appears regularly are:

  • Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
  • Agricultural Systems
  • Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Selected recent papers authored by Alfons Weersink include:

  • COVID-19 and the agri-food system in the United States and Canada, 2020, Agricultural Systems
  • Limits to Profit Maximization as a Guide to Behavior Change, 2020, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
  • Economic thoughts on the potential implications of COVID-19 on the Canadian dairy and poultry sectors, 2020, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie

The nature of Alfons Weersink's research often integrates economic perspectives with agricultural and environmental science, addressing both sectoral impacts of global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and technical aspects of crop and soil management.

Best Publications

  • Opportunities and Challenges for Big Data in Agricultural and Environmental Analysis

    Alfons Weersink;Evan Fraser;David Pannell;Emily Duncan

  • Semiparametric Estimation of Stochastic Production Frontier Models

    Yanqin Fan;Qi Li;Alfons Weersink

  • Economic aspects of persistency of lactation in dairy cattle

    J.C.M. Dekkers;J.H. Ten Hag;A. Weersink

  • Direct production losses and treatment costs from bovine viral diarrhoea virus, bovine leukosis virus, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, and Neospora caninum.

    Junwook Chi;John A. VanLeeuwen;Alfons Weersink;Gregory P. Keefe

  • Crop yield response to economic, site and climatic variables

    Juan Cabas;Alfons Weersink;Edward Olale

  • The effect of agricultural policy on farmland values

    A. Weersink;S. Clark;C. G. Turvey;R. Sarker

  • COVID-19 and the agri-food system in the United States and Canada.

    Alfons Weersink;Mike von Massow;Nicholas Bannon;Jennifer Ifft

  • Economics of Structural Change in Agriculture

    Ellen Goddard;Alfons Weersink;Kevin Chen;Calum G. Turvey

  • Decomposition Measures of Technical Efficiency for Ontario Dairy Farms

    Alfons Weersink;Calum G. Turvey;Abdulahi Godah

  • Economic Instruments and Environmental Policy in Agriculture

    Alfons Weersink;John Livernois;Jason F. Shogren;James S. Shortle

  • Economic Feasibility of Variable-Rate Technology for Nitrogen on Corn

    Sunil Thrikawala;Alfons Weersink;Glenn Fox;Gary Kachanoski

  • An economic evaluation of the environmental benefits from pesticide reduction

    Cher Brethour;Alfons Weersink

  • Damage Control and Increasing Returns

    Glenn Fox;Alfons Weersink

  • Off-farm labour decision of Canadian farm operators : urbanization effects and rural labour market linkages

    Alessandro Alasia;Alfons Weersink;Ray D. Bollman;John Cranfield

  • Do farmers waste fertilizer? A comparison of ex post optimal nitrogen rates and ex ante recommendations by model, site and year

    Predrag Rajsic;Alfons Weersink

  • Cost efficient rotation and tillage options to sequester carbon and mitigate GHG emissions from agriculture in Eastern Canada

    Andreas Meyer-Aurich;Alfons Weersink;Ken Janovicek;Bill Deen

  • Limits to Profit Maximization as a Guide to Behavior Change

    Alfons Weersink;Murray Fulton

  • Farm-Level Modeling for Bigger Issues

    Alfons Weersink;Scott Jeffrey;David Pannell

  • Factors Affecting Variability in Farm and Off-farm Income

    Kenneth Poon;Alfons Weersink

  • Biofuels and the poor: Global impact pathways of biofuels on agricultural markets

    Jikun Huang;Jun Yang;Siwa Msangi;Scott Rozelle;Scott Rozelle

  • Economic thoughts on the potential implications of COVID-19 on the Canadian dairy and poultry sectors

    Alfons Weersink;Mike von Massow;Brendan McDougall

Frequent Co-Authors

Calum G. Turvey
Calum G. Turvey Cornell University
Loren W. Tauer
Loren W. Tauer Cornell University
David J. Pannell
David J. Pannell University of Western Australia
Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
Claudia Wagner-Riddle
Claudia Wagner-Riddle University of Guelph
Clarence J. Swanton
Clarence J. Swanton University of Guelph
John A. VanLeeuwen
John A. VanLeeuwen University of Prince Edward Island
Jikun Huang
Jikun Huang Peking University
Bart Minten
Bart Minten International Food Policy Research Institute
Johan F.M. Swinnen
Johan F.M. Swinnen International Food Policy Research Institute

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