Taro Mieno

Associate Professor,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Work Experience

Associate Professor | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 2020 - present
Assistant Professor | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 2015 - 2020

Education

Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
M.S. in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
B.S. in Forestry, Hokkaido University, 2007

My recent professional activities

Publications

Title	Aquifer depletion exacerbates agricultural drought losses in the US High Plains (Paper, GitHub Repository)
Year	2024
Journal	Nature Water

Title	Can machine learning models provide accurate fertilizer recommendations? (Paper)
Year	2024
Journal	Precision Agriculture

Title	Bias in economic evaluation of variable rate application based on geographically weighted regression models with misspecified functional form (Paper, GitHub Repository)
Year	2024
Journal	Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Projects

Biochar and Drought Resilience in Agricultural Production

In many parts of U.S. agricultural production is heavily reliant on irrigation. Years of massive groundwater pumping has led to severe aquifer depletion. One of the…

Data Intensive Farm Management (DIFM)

This project conducts on-farm input experiments (e.g., fertilizer, seed) across the U.S. (primarily in the Midwest) and in other countries (e.g., South Africa, Argentina).…