Assistant professor of economics Alejandro Plastina and professor of economics Sergio Lence, also of Iowa State University, were published in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Their article "A Parametric Estimation of Total Factor Productivity and Its Components in U.S. Agriculture" aims to improve understanding of the individual contribution of the components of total factor productivity change to U.S. agricultural productivity.
The article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aay010.

Alejandro Plastina, Sergio H Lence; A Parametric Estimation of Total Factor Productivity and Its Components in U.S. Agriculture, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, aay010, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aay010