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Driven to Discover: Zizhuo Xu
Article by Beth Miller | August 26, 2019
Summer Scholar uses data analytics in study of Delaware water resources
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To scan or not to scan
Article by Lauren Bradford | June 03, 2019
Researchers examine the use of QR codes on food packaging
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The wrong kind of debt
Article by Dena Hillison | May 08, 2019
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers shares his views on U.S. economic policy
WELCOME TO APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
Applied Economics and Statistics is concerned with agribusiness management, food marketing, the economics of environmental and resource management, and statistics.
Applied Economics courses are designed to provide a thorough background in the principles of organization and management of agribusiness firms, and includes study of financing agricultural business firms, marketing and international trade of agricultural products, price analysis, environmental economics, economics of land use, and agricultural and environmental policies.
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The wrong kind of debt
Article by Dena Hillison | May 08, 2019
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers shares his views on U.S. economic policy
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To scan or not to scan
Article by Lauren Bradford | June 03, 2019
Researchers examine the use of QR codes on food packaging
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Turning (recycled) water into wine
Article by Lauren Bradford | April 16, 2019
UD researchers explore consumer response to the use of recycled water in wine production
Spotlights
Biden Institute profile: Dr. Kent Messer
The University of Delaware Biden Institute interviewed our Kent Messer, S. Hallock du Pont Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the Center for Experimental & Applied Economics, to discuss his research on the use of recycled wastewater in food production, his book on strategic conservation and how agricultural policy affects the general public and the economy.
Oyster efforts pay off
Delaware gourmets and environmentalists alike had something to cheer in 2018 when the first aquaculture oysters were planted and, thanks to fortuitously ideal conditions, harvested from Rehoboth Bay for the first time in more than 30 years. From helping create the laws and regulations allowing shellfish aquaculture in Delaware’s Inland Bays to helping growers raise and market their products, the Delaware Sea Grant College Program at UD has been integral throughout the process of bringing oysters, and eventually clams, back into commercial production.