Ryan Olver

2021 Ph.D. – Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

2013 Masters. – Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

2012 Bachelors. – Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park

2012 Bachelors. – History, University of Maryland, College Park

2012 Bachelors. – Environmental Science and Policy, University of Maryland, College Park

Agricultural economics, supply chains, specialty crops, pesticides

2023- Assistant Professor, Tokyo International University

2021-2023 Research Agricultural Economist, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

2025-2027: Green Food System Strategy: Government Research Consortium headed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries

2012-2013: Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Chinese Language); United States Department of Education

2011-2012: Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Fellowship; United States Department of Homeland Security

Journal articles

Wang, Sun Ling, Ryan Olver, and Daniel Bonin. “Sustainable Crop Farm Productivity: Weather Effects, Technology Adoption, and Farm Management.” Sustainability 17, no. 15 (2025) https://doi.org/10.3390/su17156778

Dong, Fengxia, Laura Dodson, Rebecca Nemec Boehm, Cameron Douglass, Michelle Ranville, and Ryan Olver. “The Relative Importance of Herbicide Use for Conservation Tillage Adoption by U.S. Corn and Soybean Producers.” PLoS ONE 19, no. 11 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311960

Olver, Ryan and David Zilberman. “Why Soil Fumigation Changed the Strawberry Industry.” University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, ARE Update 25, no. 3 (2022)

Whitt, Christine, Noah Miller, and Ryan Olver. “America’s Farms and Ranches at a Glance: 2022 Edition.” USDA Economic Research Service, Economic Information Bulletin no. 247 (2022)

Li, Yuanqing, Chong Liu, Yi Cui, Spencer S. Walse, Ryan Olver, David Zilberman, and William A. Mitch. ”Development of an Activated Carbon-Based Electrode for the Capture and Rapid Electrolytic Reductive Debromination of Methyl Bromide from Postharvest Fumigations.” Environmental Science and Technology 50, no. 20 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b03489

Conference proceedings papers

Amponsah, Samuel, Augusto Delgado, and Ryan Olver. “Market Failure and Child Labor in the Ghanaian Cocoa Industry.” Conference Paper and Presentation; African Finance and Economics Association Annual Conference, University of Nairobi, Kenya; July 16-18, 2025.

Yeh, D. Adeline and Ryan Olver. “Chemical Use Trends and Behaviors in Strawberry Production.” Conference Paper and Presentation; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; July 28-30, 2024.

Wang, Sun Ling, Ryan Olver, Daniel Bonin, and Ryan Williams. “U.S. Field Crop Farm Productivity: Climatic Effects, Technology, and Farm Practices.” Conference Paper and Presentation; 18 th European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis. Faro, Portugal; June 18-21, 2024.

Wang, Sun Ling, Ryan Olver, Daniel Bonin, Laura Dodson, and Ryan Williams. “Climate Change, Technology Adoption, and Field Crop Farm Productivity in the United States: Short Term vs. Long Term.” Conference Paper and Presentation; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, USA; July 31 st – August 2nd , 2022.