Research Guides: Agricultural & Resource Economics: Open Educational Resources

What are these resources?

On this page you will find several openly licensed textbooks, along with supplemental material, interactive learning objects, and other resources. This is not an exhaustive list of open educational resources (OER) in this field, but highlights some of the content that might be useful to those considering adopting OER for their classes.

Open Textbooks - Agricultural & Resource Economics

Agribusiness Management 101
Rossman, William. 2024. Pennsylvania State University. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets
Barkley, Andrew. 2016. New Prairie Press. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Keywords: microeconomics, textbook, agricultural economics, agribusiness, international trade, market structures
Socioeconomics of Agriculture
Mann, Stefan. 2018. SpringerOpen.
Keywords: hierarchy, cooperation, agricultural systems, governance, primary sector, socioeconomics, agri-food chain, agricultural economics, open access
University of Kentucky Agricultural Economics Textbook Gallery
A collection housed in the University of Kentucky Institutional Repository containing openly licensed textbooks on agricultural economics.

Other Open Materials - Agricultural & Resource Economics

CORE Econ
Free online textbooks and resources for a new way of teaching and learning economics, using research to address the world’s most pressing problems.
Credit in Agriculture
This unit covers different types of loans that agricultural producers commonly use in the business of farming and ranching. It explains some key terms that are important to understand, and provides the equations and framework for setting up loans for short-term (operating loans and lines of credit) as well as amortized loans (equal principal payment loans and equal total payment loans).
Introduction to U.S. Agribusiness
Introduction to U.S. Agribusiness is an overview of the agriculture buisness in the U.S. including the meaning of agribusiness, the historical events that led to this profession, the different commodity types, and the various economic sectors within agribusiness.