Publications

2024

• Burchfield, E., Ferro, M., Huttel, S., Lakes, T., Niedermayr, A., Rissing, A., Seifert, S., Wesemeyer, M. (2024). Towards a comparative analysis of agricultural land systems in the EU and US: A critical comparison of publicly available datasets. 147(107371). Land Use Policy.
• Ribert, J., Nelson, K., Burchfield, E. (2024). Linking Diversity – Productivity Conditions of Farming Systems with the Well-Being of Agricultural Communities. 16(16), 6826. Sustainability.
• Christman, M., Spears, L., Burchfield, E., Pearse, W., Strange, J., Ramirez, R. (2024) Bumble bee responses to climate and landscapes: Investigating habitat associations and species assemblages across geographic regions in the United States of America. 30(6). Global Change Biology.
• Haycock, S., Bean, B., Burchfield, E. (2024). Producing fast and convenient machine learning benchmarks in R with the stressor package. Journal of Data Science.
• Burchfield, E., Crossley, M., Nelson, K. (2024). Rotational complexity across US counties is currently insufficient to observe yield gains in major crops. 19(4). Environmental Research Letters.
• Schnur, S. Maki, C., Burchfield, E. (2024) Farmers Need the Land: Georgia’s Agricultural Future in the Patchy Anthropocene. 107, 103259. Journal of Rural Studies.

2023

• Rissing, A., Burchfield, E. (2024). Crop diversification as landscape change: Using land systems science to understand agricultural trajectories in North Carolina. 24 (3). Regional Environmental Change.
• Rissing, A., Burchfield, E., Spangler, K., Schumacher, B. (2023). Implications of US agricultural data practice for sustainable food systems research. Nature Food. 4, 213-217.
• Schumacher, B., Burchfield, E., Brennan, B., Yost, M. (2023). Leveraging important covariate groups for corn yield prediction. Agriculture. 14(3), 618.
• Nelson, K. Burchfield, E. (2023). Defining features of diverse and productive agricultural systems: An archetype analysis of US agricultural counties. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7(76).
• Briske, D., Archer, S. Burchfield, E., Burnidge, W., Derner, J., Gosnell, H., Hatfield, J., Kazanaski, C., Khalil, M., Lark, T., Nagler, P., Sala, O., Sayre, N., Stackhouse-Lawson, K. (2023). Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands. Nature Sustainability.

2022

• Burchfield, E. (2022). Where and how to grow food. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016022-00663-z
• Spangler, K., Burchfield, E., Radel, C., Jackson-Smith, D., Johnson, R. (2022). Crop diversification in Idaho’s Magic Valley: the present and the imaginary. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 42 (99). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-022-00833-0.
• Burchfield, E. (2022). Shifting cultivation geographies in the Central and Eastern US. Environmental Research Letters. 17, 054049. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6c3d
• Spangler, K., Schumacher, B., Bean, B., Burchfield, E. (2022). Path dependencies in US agriculture: Regional factors of diversification. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 333, 107957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.107957
• Burchfield, E., Schumacher, B., Spangler, K., Rissing, A. (2022). The state of US farm operator livelihoods. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.795901
• Nottebrock, H., Burchfield, E., Fenster, C. (2022). Farmers’ delivery of floral resources: to ‘bee’ or not to ‘bee.' American Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1809
• Schumacher, B., Yost, M., Burchfield, E., Allen, N. (2022). Water in the West: trends, production efficiency, and a call for open data. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114330

2021

• Nelson, K., Burchfield, E. (2021) Landscape complexity and US crop production. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00281-1
• Burchfield, E., Nelson, K. (2021) Agricultural yield geographies in the United States. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe88d

2020

• Burchfield, E., Schumacher, B. (2020) Bright spots in US corn production. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba5b4
• Spangler, K., Burchfield, E., Schumacher, B. (2020) Past and current dynamics of US agricultural land use and policy. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 4(9) https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00098

2019

• Burchfield, E., Matthews-Pennanen, N., Stoebner, J., Lant, C. (2019). Changing yields in the Central United States under climate and technological change. Climatic Change, 159, 329-346. Preprint available here.
• Burchfield, E., Nelson, K., Spangler, K. (2019). The impact of agricultural diversification on U.S. crop production. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 285 106615. Preprint available here.

2018

• Tozier-de-la-Poterie, A., Burchfield, E., Carrico, A. (2018). The implications of group norms for adaptation in collectively-managed agricultural systems: evidence from Sri Lankan Paddy farmers. Ecology and Society. 23(3):21.
• Burchfield, E., Williams, N., Carrico, A. (2018). Rescaling drought mitigation in rural Sri Lanka. Regional Environmental Change. 18(8): 1-14.
• Burchfield, E., Tozier-de-la-Poterie, A. (2018). Determinants of crop diversification in rice-dominated Sri Lankan agricultural systems. Journal of Rural Studies. 61, 206-215.
• Nay, J., Burchfield, E., Gilligan, J. (2018). A machine-learning approach to forecasting remotely sensed vegetation health. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 39(6), 1800-1816. You can learn more about the forecastVeg tool we build for this project here.

2017

• Nelson, K., Burchfield, E. (2017). Effects of the structure of water rights on agricultural production during drought: A spatiotemporal analysis of California’s Central Valley. Water Resources Research. 53(10), 8923 - 8309.

2016

• Burchfield, E., Gilligan, J. (2016). Agricultural adaptation to drought in the Sri Lankan dry zone. Applied Geography. 77, 92-100.
• Burchfield, E., Gilligan, J. (2016). Dynamics of individual and collective agricultural adaptation to water scarcity. Winter Simulation Conference 2016 Proceedings.

2015

The time before papers. 😎