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Dale Manning

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Associate Professor in Public Policy and Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee

A healthy bat hangs in a cave, resting up to eat its weight in bugs at dusk. Liz Hamrick/TVA

May 14, 2026

How much is a bat worth? Protecting these insect‑eaters isn’t just good for farms – their deaths cost taxpayers and the wider economy

Dale Manning, University of Tennessee; Anya Nakhmurina, Yale University, and Eli Fenichel, Yale University

When bats disappear, farms become less productive, and that has broad implications far beyond the crops.

Soybeans sprout on an Illinois farm through corn stubble left on an unplowed field from the previous season – an example of no-till farming. Paige Buck, USDA/Flickr

June 30, 2021

To make agriculture more climate‑friendly, carbon farming needs clear rules

Laura van der Pol, Colorado State University; Dale Manning, Colorado State University; Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University, and Megan Machmuller, Colorado State University

Policymakers want to pay farmers for storing carbon in soil, but there are no uniform rules yet for measuring, reporting or verifying the results. Four scholars offer some ground rules.

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