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Chad Fiechter

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Early career · publishing since 2021Rising activity
Agricultural Economics and PolicyAgricultural risk and resilienceCorporate Finance and GovernanceBanking stability, regulation, efficiencySmart Agriculture and AI

Publications

18

Citations

26

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

6

Publishing since 2021

Research summary
AI-generated

Chad Fiechter studies the economics of agriculture and farming businesses, including how loans and credit affect farm operations, how new technologies like autonomous farm machinery change production costs, and how landowners respond to incentives for converting farmland to renewable energy. This work combines agricultural economics with topics in finance and banking to understand financial and policy issues facing the farm sector.

Agricultural finance and creditFarm interest rates and lending marketsAutonomous farm machinery economicsFarmland conversion to renewable energyAgricultural commodity markets

Publication output was minimal or absent from 2017-2020, then became active starting in 2021 with a noticeable resurgence from 2024-2026, suggesting a recent increase in publishing activity.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
171819202021: 5 publications5212022: 1 publication22232024: 5 publications5242025: 5 publications5252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×4
  • Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics×2
  • Agricultural Finance Review×2
  • Land Economics×2
  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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