Research

Returns, Risks, and Legacies: Understanding Farmland as an Investment Asset

Rabail Chandio; Katherine Dentzmen; Caroline Strawhacker; Sarah Smith

Journal of the ASFMRA

Examines farmland as an investment asset, including its returns, risks, investor motivations, rental-market dynamics, and intergenerational legacies.

Teaching Farm and Rural Property Appraisal at America’s Colleges: Synthesis and Reflections

Rabail Chandio; Mykel Taylor; Chrystol Thomas; Wendong Zhang

Journal of the ASFMRA

Documents how farm and rural property appraisal is taught across U.S. colleges and highlights course structures, project-based learning, instructional challenges, and opportunities for collaboration with the appraisal profession.

Government Payments and Farm Debt Utilization During the Pandemic

Rabail Chandio; Ani L. Katchova; Dipak Subedi; Anil K. Giri

Agricultural Finance Review, 85(2), 289-314

Examines how pandemic-era government payments and low interest rates were associated with short-term farm debt use across farms of different sizes and operators with different demographic and experience characteristics.

Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?

Rabail Chandio; Leah E. M. Bevis

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Examines how the relationship between farm size and productivity evolved during India’s Green Revolution.

Similarities in the US Department of Agriculture international baseline projections

Rabail Chandio; Ani L. Katchova

Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 3(3), 505-521