Rate My Professor Anastasia Thayer

Dr. Thayer has an active publication record in prestigious journals. Recent contributions include: Fei et al. (2025) on water values in arid regions published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association; Thayer et al. (2025) examining the effects of China's retaliatory tariffs on US soybean exports using machine learning in the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics; Berg et al. (2025) analyzing commodity diversification and technology adoption among Southeast beef producers in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review; Nasekos et al. (2025) on consumer preferences for blockchain traceability in milk in the Journal of Food Distribution Research; and Berg et al. (2024) on feeder cattle basis in the Western Economics Forum. Her influential earlier work, such as McCarl, Thayer, and Jones (2016) "The Challenge of Climate Change Adaptation for Agriculture: An Economically Oriented Review" in the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (77 citations), and Thayer et al. (2020) "Integrating Agriculture and Ecosystems to Find Suitable Adaptations to Climate Change" in Climate (55 citations), highlight her expertise in climate adaptation. She also produces extension publications, for example, "South Carolina’s Shrinking Dairy Herd" (2024) in Land-Grant Press.