Yann de Mey

Just published 🌱:
We dug into 16 million+ field records across Central Europe to find out what drives farmers’ crop rotation choices.
Turns out past cropping, agronomic advice, and legume prices matter a lot and legumes are likely to play a much bigger role in the future👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

The only kind of gang activity we get to see around #Wegeningen

Works like a charm on anything you throw at it! But of course always double check manually and make final edits if needed

Fraud and cover-up Fraud and cover-up

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Great use case of ClaudeAI or ChatGPT: to transfer equations from a textbook to PowerPoint slides I just take a picture and ask for Latex code that can be plugged into the equation editor and converted into a perfect vector-based equation!

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Greatly looking forward to the next AgEconMeet session with Marc Bellemare in two weeks

Today's ChatGPT use case: give it Stata code and have it draft a methodology section based on it. A straightforward yet somewhat time-consuming task to do manually.

Bonus: if the writeup doesn't match what you THINK you did, it may be due to an error in your code that you didn't catch.

#EconSky

Just received a physical copy of the dissertation of one of my own PhD students via the internal mail system … from the other side of the building 🤣 (one elevator ride away). Gotta love bureaucracy 👏

In Stata it is a bit more intuitive: # specifies an interaction term between two variables and ## specifies a full factorial, including the main effects of each variable and their interaction term

Cool! Please share link here 😁

We ended with a nice interactive discussion 👍 it was a 10/10 session in my view 💪🏻

I focused on two things that stood out during the coding: 1) a major role for policy uncertainty and 2) introspective answers by a sub-group (9%) of respondents

This was A LOT of work, as we manually coded an open question detailing protest motivations, and then converged on a joint coding scheme across the 4 countries

Final day of the #EAAE2025! Kicking it off with an organized session on analyzing farmers’ voices in the farmer protests. Great way to showcase the work we did in DE-FR-BE-NL in a great team led by Doris Läpple

Very cool keynote by prof Anna Dreber about the replicability crisis and potential solutions 🙏 #EAAE2025

We had a nice session this morning about “What the EAAE can do for early career agecons”! #EAAE2025

The BEC group is well represented at the #EAAE2025, with 20 participants 🕺

FADN >> FSDN session at #EAAE2025. Nice to see the future dataset I will be using a lot ☺️ I was in particular impressed with the DIB linked database which will cover all relevant farm practices linked to policy at the farm level to FSDN!

You inadvertently captured today’s keynote at the bottom of this picture as well 👀🤣

A special moment for me at #EAAE2025, with my former MSc thesis adviser Matty Demont (IRRI) delivering the first keynote of the day! Matty is the reason I ended up doing a PhD and staying in academia 🎓. The story on his gastronomic systems research was impressive 👏

The session had lovely presentations by @robertfinger.bsky.social, @oelkers.bsky.social, Laura Moritz and Mirta Casati highlighting the diversity of perspectives we need to try and grasp farmers’ decisions under risk/uncertainty or ambiguity

What better way to kick off day 2 of the #EAAE2025 in Bonn than a session on “Climatic Crisis And Risk Management In Agriculture: A Behavioural Perspective” where I was kindly invited to be a discussant by session organizer Simone Cerroni 🎤

Hey #EAAE2025: Thursday is replication day. First, Anna Dreber's keynote on "Predicting Replication Outcomes" (11am) & our session👇(4pm) feat. ‪@robertfinger.bsky.social‬ @cedricchambru.bsky.social‬ @jensrommel.bsky.social‬ ‪@beta1hat.bsky.social‬ @mabuchner.bsky.social‬ ‪@i4replication.bsky.social‬

Most likely the latter, so no skin in the game

Sounds interesting. Where does this rabbit hole start? Do you have a URL 🙏

Great Opening Session of the 18th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), hosted by the University of Bonn.

With welcoming addresses and keynotes by Monica Hartmann, Jose Gill, and Elizabeth Robinson and others

Details congress www.ilr1.uni-bonn.de/eaaecongress...

Need for less policy analysis, more political economy "with a dose of philosophy on the side"👍🏻

I already saw you from a distance 👀
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