2026
- Nelson, K., Bean, B., Burchfield, E. (2026). Consistent positive associations between landscape diversity and crop yields. Global Change Biology, 32(5), e70894.
2025
- Francois, J., Nelson, K., Burchfield, E., Rissing, A. (2025). Contexts of crop selection decisions shape changing agricultural landscape diversity in the United States. 42, 2631-2649. Agriculture and Human Values.
- Spangler, K., Rissing, A., Burchfield, E., Schumacher, B., Powell, B., Siegel, K. (2025). Nutritious monocultures? Where and how fruits and vegetables are produced in the US. 45, 100860. Global Food Security.
- Magliocca, N., Burchfield, E., Chapman Busby, E., Brantley, E., Cleveland, O., Ellenburg, W., Fischer, K., Kumar, M., Mishra, V., McGuire, D., Nair, U., Pate, A., Pathak, R., Sawadgo, W., Ribeiro da Silva, A., White, A., Williams, A., Worosz, M. (2025). Leverage points to pathways for transformation of agri-food systems. Environmental Research: Food Systems, 2(3), 035007.
2024
- Burchfield, E., Ferro, M., Hüttel, S., Lakes, T., Leonhardt, H., Niedermayr, A., Rissing, A., Seifert, S., Wesemeyer, M. (2024). Towards a comprehensive analysis of agricultural land systems in the EU and US: A critical view on 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), 044024. 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.
- Rissing, A., Burchfield, E. (2024). Crop diversification as landscape change: Using land systems science to understand agricultural trajectories in North Carolina. 24(1), 3. Regional Environmental Change.
2023
- 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., Bean, B., Yost, M. (2023). Leveraging important covariate groups for corn yield prediction. Agriculture. 13(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, 1081079.
- 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/s43016-022-00663-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), 8293-8309.
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. 😎