Rate My Professor Anastasia Thayer

Anastasia Thayer is an Assistant Professor of Agribusiness in the Agricultural Sciences Department at Clemson University, part of the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences. She received her PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University in 2018, an MS in Resource Economics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2015, and a BA in Economics and Environmental Studies from Wellesley College in 2012. Dr. Thayer's research centers on agricultural economics, with emphases on natural resource management, farm management, and livestock economics tailored to challenges faced by producers in the Southeastern United States. She utilizes advanced quantitative methods including econometrics, mathematical programming, and simulation to investigate these topics.

Dr. Thayer has an active publication record in prestigious journals. Recent contributions include: Fei et al. (2025) on water values in arid regions published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association; Thayer et al. (2025) examining the effects of China's retaliatory tariffs on US soybean exports using machine learning in the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics; Berg et al. (2025) analyzing commodity diversification and technology adoption among Southeast beef producers in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review; Nasekos et al. (2025) on consumer preferences for blockchain traceability in milk in the Journal of Food Distribution Research; and Berg et al. (2024) on feeder cattle basis in the Western Economics Forum. Her influential earlier work, such as McCarl, Thayer, and Jones (2016) "The Challenge of Climate Change Adaptation for Agriculture: An Economically Oriented Review" in the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (77 citations), and Thayer et al. (2020) "Integrating Agriculture and Ecosystems to Find Suitable Adaptations to Climate Change" in Climate (55 citations), highlight her expertise in climate adaptation. She also produces extension publications, for example, "South Carolina’s Shrinking Dairy Herd" (2024) in Land-Grant Press.