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David A. Hennessy is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science, contributing extensively to these fields over numerous publications.

Their work spans multiple subfields including:

  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Genetically Modified Organisms Research
  • Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Climate change will increase aflatoxin presence in US Corn," 2022, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Insecticides, more than herbicides, land use, and climate, are associated with declines in butterfly species richness and abundance in the American Midwest," 2024, PLoS ONE
  • "Are glyphosate-resistant weeds a threat to conservation agriculture? Evidence from tillage practices in soybeans," 2021, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • "Environmental and economic concerns surrounding restrictions on glyphosate use in corn," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Emerging weed resistance increases tillage intensity and greenhouse gas emissions in the US corn-soybean cropping system," 2022, Nature Food

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hongli Feng
  • Felicia Wu
  • Jina Yu
  • Chaoqun Lü
  • Braeden Van Deynze

Publication venues where David A. Hennessy has multiple contributions are:

  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Scientific Reports
  • Ecological Economics

Best Publications

  • The production effects of agricultural income support policies under uncertainty

    David A. Hennessy

  • Uncertainty, Risk Aversion, and Risk Management for Agricultural Producers

    GianCarlo Moschini;David A. Hennessy

  • Input Demand under Yield and Revenue Insurance

    Bruce A. Babcock;Bruce A. Babcock;David A. Hennessy

  • Information Asymmetry As a Reason for Food Industry Vertical Integration

    David Hennessy

  • CONSUMERS' VALUATION OF INSECTICIDE USE RESTRICTIONS: AN APPLICATION TO APPLES

    Jutta Roosen

  • Chapter 2 Uncertainty, risk aversion, and risk management for agricultural producers

    Giancarlo Moschini;David A. Hennessy

  • Genetically engineered crops and pesticide use in U.S. maize and soybeans

    Edward D. Perry;Federico Ciliberto;David A. Hennessy;Gian Carlo Moschini

  • Budgetary and Producer Welfare Effects of Revenue Insurance

    David Hennessy;Bruce Babcock;Dermot Hayes

  • Rationality of Choices in Subsidized Crop Insurance Markets

    Xiaodong Du;Hongli Feng;David A. Hennessy

  • On Monoculture and the Structure of Crop Rotations

    David A. Hennessy

  • Cropland expansion and grassland loss in the eastern Dakotas: New insights from a farm-level survey

    Michael Charles Wimberly;Larry L. Janssen;David A. Hennessy;Moses Luri

  • Systemic failure in the provision of safe food

    David A Hennessy;Jutta Roosen;Helen H Jensen

  • The Use of Archimedean Copulas to Model Portfolio Allocations

    David A. Hennessy;Harvey E. Lapan

  • The Realized Yield Effect of Genetically Engineered Crops: U.S. Maize and Soybean

    Zheng Xu;David A. Hennessy;Kavita Sardana;Gian Carlo Moschini

  • Leadership and the Provision of Safe Food

    David Hennessy;Jutta Roosen;John Miranowski

  • Contractual Relations, Control, and Quality in the Hog Sector

    David A. Hennessy;John D. Lawrence

  • Asymmetric Information, Externalities and Incentives in Animal Disease Prevention and Control

    David A. Hennessy;Christopher A. Wolf

  • Tests for the Role of Risk Aversion on Input Use

    Jutta Roosen;David A. Hennessy

  • Behavioral Incentives, Equilibrium Endemic Disease, and Health Management Policy for Farmed Animals

    David A. Hennessy

  • Crop Yield Skewness Under Law of the Minimum Technology

    David A. Hennessy

  • Use of Archimedean Copulas to Model Portfolio Allocations, The

    David Hennessy;Harvey Lapan

Frequent Co-Authors

Harvey E. Lapan
Harvey E. Lapan Iowa State University
Jutta Roosen
Jutta Roosen Technical University of Munich
Bruce A. Babcock
Bruce A. Babcock University of California, Riverside
Tong Wang
Tong Wang University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Dermot J. Hayes
Dermot J. Hayes Iowa State University
Helen H. Jensen
Helen H. Jensen Iowa State University
GianCarlo Moschini
GianCarlo Moschini Iowa State University
Donald Lien
Donald Lien The University of Texas at San Antonio
Yuyu Zhou
Yuyu Zhou Iowa State University
Raymond W. Arritt
Raymond W. Arritt Iowa State University

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