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Department Head

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness

29 h-index 182 pubs 3,634 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Lawton Lanier Nalley, Department Head of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, leads research focused on economic and ecological impacts of agricultural practices. His work includes studies on genetically modified (GM) maize in South Africa, examining yield gains for human consumption versus livestock feed, and the economic and ecosystem consequences of GM maize adoption. Nalley also investigates the impacts of rice quality on food security and sustainability in Bangladesh, and the implications of broken rice demand for food security in Colombia. His research extends to consumer attitudes towards emerging food technologies, such as cultured meat, and the valuation of ethically produced goods, including child-labor-free chocolate.

Nalley's research group also explores advancements in agricultural technology, such as the application of remote sensing in conservation agriculture and the development of methodological frameworks for identifying winter-time cover crops using remote sensing data. His scholarly contributions are reflected in a highly cited researcher designation, with an h-index of 29 and over 4,000 citations across 188 publications. He collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, including Alvaro Durand‐Morat and Aaron M. Shew.

Metrics

  • h-index: 29
  • Publications: 182
  • Citations: 3,634

Selected Publications

  • Linking genetic gains to food security outcomes: An assessment of IRRI’S rice breeding efforts in the Philippines and Indonesia (2026)
  • Harvesting insights: interpretable machine learning to understand environmental drivers of U.S. maize and soybean yield (2026)
  • Consumer acceptance of gene-edited non-browning bananas to reduce food waste (2026)
  • The divergence of the public and private plant breeding sectors with implications for climate change (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Weed Population Impacts Using Targeted Herbicide Applications with See & Spray™ in Soybean over a Three-year Period (2025)
  • Satellite Remote Sensing Reveals Voluntary Cover-Crop Adoption and Crop-Rotation Hotspots in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (2025)
  • Evaluating the costs of alternative malting grains for market adaptation: a case study on rice malt production in the U.S (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Required informational barriers to accessing groceries from food banks (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Consumer preferences and valuation for sustainably produced rice in Ghana (2025)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Potential response of Mexican consumers to a Ban on genetically modified Maize imports (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Understanding demand for broken rice and its potential food security implications in Colombia (2023)
    17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Alternative Livestock Revolution: Prospects for Consumer Acceptance of Plant-based and Cultured Meat in South Africa (2023)
    6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Winter-time cover crop identification: A remote sensing-based methodological framework for new and rapid data generation (2023)
    20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Boundary line analysis and machine learning models to identify critical soil values for major crops in Guatemala (2023)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Conservation agriculture assists smallholder farmers and their agroecosystem in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2023)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex

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