Current Research Projects
“Heterogeneous Dynamic Water-Use Responses to Irrigation Technology Adoption”
“Groundwater Quality Implications of Wellhead Protection Areas: Evidence from Nebraska”
“Yield Response to Nitrogen in Agricultural Production Models”
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Mieno, T., T. Foster, S. Kakimoto, and N. Brozović (2024). “Aquifer depletion exacerbates agricultural drought losses in the US High Plains”. In: Nature Water 2.1. Publisher: Nature Publishing Group, pp. 41-51. ISSN: 2731-6084. DOI: 10.1038/s44221-023-00173-7.
Kakimoto, S., T. Mieno, T. S. Tanaka, and D. S. Bullock (2022). “Causal forest approach for site-specific input management via on-farm precision experimentation”. In: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 199, p. 107164. ISSN: 01681699. DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2022.107164.
Outreach and Extension Publications
D. Jayasekera, T. Mieno, and S. Kakimoto. 2026.
“The Effectiveness of Wellhead Protection Areas on Groundwater Quality: Evidence from Nebraska.” Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, April 1, 2026.
Selected Presentations
“Cost-effectiveness of a pay-for-performance cover-crop program: A case study of the Olmsted County Groundwater Protection and Soil Health Protection Program in Minnesota”
“Heterogeneous Dynamic Water-Use Responses to Irrigation Technology Adoption”
“Size and the Nature of Measurement Error in Gridded Weather Datasets and Its Consequential Estimation Bias in Regression Models: An Application to PRISM Data for the U.S. Midwest”
“Yield Response to Nitrogen in Agricultural Production Models”
“Machine Learning Methods for Site-Specific Input Management”
Workshops
Introduction to Making Presentation Slides with xaringan