See below for a list of recent publications, with new additions posted as they’re released. The links include a mix of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and outreach-oriented publications.

      Agricultural Water Management

Exploring the Potential for Innovative Water Management Strategies to Support Irrigated Farmland Transitions: Three Case Studies in Colorado2025. Western Economics Forum, 23(1): 3-17. (R. Ford, D.F. Mooney, R. Hill, M. Wilson, M. Sullins, P. Cabot, A. Seidl)

Agricultural Producer Decision Making Around Water Conservation in the Upper Colorado River Basin.2024. Choices, 39(3):1-8. (D.F. Mooney, K.H. Hansen)

More Risk, More Money: When are Payments for Water Savings from Limited Irrigation Profitable for Farmers?2022. Water Resources and Economics, 40: 100212. (D.F. Mooney, D. Hoag, Z. Rasul*, S. Gao*)

Comparative Profitability of Irrigated Cropping Activities for Temporary Water Transfers under Risk Aversion.2023. Journal of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 48(1): 202–218. (D.F. Mooney, T. Kelley*)

      Cropping Systems and Related Value Chains

Externalities in wild pig damages on US crop and livestock farms: The role of landowner actions and landscape heterogeneity2025. PloS One, 20(4):e0320316. (S. McKee, N. DeLay, D.F. Mooney, S. Shwiff)

Estimating the ex ante adoption determinants of novel cropping systems with nonpecuniary benefits.

2023. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2(4):786-807. (D.F. Mooney, B.L. Barham)

Hemp Farming and Credit Access in the United States: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Future Research.

2024. Journal of Agribusiness, forthcoming. (B.P. Mallika Appuhamilage, D. Mooney, T. Mark) 

Producers Marketing a Novel Crop: A Field-Level View of Hemp Market Channels.

2023. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 38: e32. (R. Hill, B. Jablonski, L. Van*, M. Wang*, P. Appuhamilage, M. LeRoux, T. Mark, D.F. Mooney, D. Thilmany)

Making Headway on the Hemp Industry in Colorado: The CHAMP Initiative.2020. Western Economics Forum, 18(2): 86–94. (R. Hill, D.F. Mooney, D. Thilmany)

      Production Technology and Livestock Value Chains

Climate and Consolidation in the U.S. Beef Cow Sector2025. Journal of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 50(1): 97-118. (N. Delay, D.F. Mooney, J. Ritten)

The Economic Fundamentals of Virtual Fencing Compared to Traditional Fencing

2025. Rangelands, 47(1):92-101. (D. Hoag, R. Reuter, D. Mooney, J. Vitale, J. Ritten, N. DeLay, P. Evangelista, A. Vorster)

Virtual Fencing: Economic and Policy Implications of an Emerging Livestock Technology for Western Rangelands2024. Western Economics Forum, 22(1):54-64 (N. DeLay, D.F. Mooney, J. Ritten, D. Hoag)

Beef Cattle Producer Perspectives on Virtual Fencing2024. Rangeland Ecology and Management, 96:143-151. (D. Hoag, A. Vorster, K. Ehlert, P. Evangelista, L. Edwards-Callaway, D. Mooney, J. Virene)

Type and Frequency of Wild Pig-Domestic Livestock Contacts and Operator Concern for Disease Spread

2023. Q Open, 3:1-21 (S. McKee, D.F. Mooney, R. Williams)

Willingness to Rent Land for Rotational Grazing: The Importance of Survey Response Behavior

2018. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 51(1): 1–22. (D.F. Mooney, C. Bolison, B. Barham)