I am an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University. My research seeks to better understand U.S. farmland market, agricultural water conservation, and Chinese agriculture. I'm also affiliated with Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), where he co-founded the new ISU China Ag center in 2017. I lead the annual Iowa Land Value Survey, Iowa Farmland Ownership and Tenure Survey, and the Iowa Lakes Survey. I received my Ph.D. from Ohio State in 2015.