Rachael Goodhue
· Professor of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis · Technology and Operations Management
Active 1900–2025
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About
Rachael Goodhue is a Professor and the Donald H and Miriam C Stelling Endowed Chair at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis. Her research focuses on agricultural marketing and organization, industrial organization, contracting, agricultural and agri-environmental regulation and policy, pesticide use and regulation, and property rights. She is involved in teaching courses such as Intermediate Microeconomics: Imperfect Competition, Markets and Welfare Economics, and Analysis of California Agriculture and Resources, contributing to the understanding of market structures, policy impacts, and resource management within the agricultural sector.
Research topics
- Biology
- Economics
- Business
- Food science
- Marketing
- Agricultural economics
- Environmental science
- Microeconomics
- Agronomy
- Horticulture
Selected publications
American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 2019-07-08 · 35 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorAbstract Over the last two decades, the number of honey bee colonies performing pollination services for the California almond industry has grown steadily and now equals a substantial share of all colonies in the United States. Most US beekeeping operations have not expanded their colony numbers at the current levels of almond pollination fees. Thus, as almond acreage has increased, the marginal supplier of colonies has moved further away from California, increasing interstate shipments. We prov…
American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 2022 · 32 citations
Abstract Food‐safety incidents disrupt impacted markets, cause destruction of edible product, shake consumer confidence, and impose economic losses upon participants across the implicated supply chain. Despite the prevalence of such incidents, we know surprisingly little about their supply chain impacts, especially in modern produce markets where contracts may impede the diffusion of price impacts through the supply chain. The November 2018 E. coli incident for romaine lettuce in Central Califor…
Ecological Economics · 2020 · 25 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingCrop Protection · 2021 · 19 citations
An Assessment of the Need for Native Seeds and the Capacity for Their Supply: Interim Report
2020-11-13 · 15 citations
bookThis interim report represents the culmination of 9 months of exploration into the complex system by which seeds of native plants are produced and used in the United States. This system plays an essential but under-recognized role in the maintenance and restoration of the nation’s natural and semi-natural areas, including national parks and forests, rangelands, roadsides, lands recovered after energy development, and many, many others. Our assessment committee - a group of diverse professionals…
Frequent coauthors
- 49 shared
Colin A. Carter
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
- 47 shared
C.‐Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
- 38 shared
Christine L. Carroll
Boston University
- 37 shared
Gordon C. Rausser
University of California, Berkeley
- 35 shared
Krishna V. Subbarao
University of California, Davis
- 32 shared
Leo K. Simon
- 24 shared
Donglin Zhang
University of Georgia
- 22 shared
Steven A. Fennimore
Education
- 1993
B.A.
Swarthmore College
- 1994
M.S.
University of California, Berkeley
- 1997
Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
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