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	Banning wildlife trade can boost the unregulated trade of threatened species (Paper)
Year	2025
Journal	Conservation Letters

Title	Quadratic-plateau geographically weighted regression model for estimating site-specific economically optimal input rates (Paper)
Year	2025
Journal	Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Title	Combining two sources of on‐farm experimentation data to predict optimal site‐specific nitrogen rates (Paper)
Year	2025
Journal	Agronomy Journal

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).…