Nicolas Quintana Ashwell
Title
- Assistant Research Professor
Contact Information
naq14@msstate.edu
Office: 662-390-8508
Delta Research and Extension Center
Overview
Biography
Nico Quintana joined the Department of Agricultural Economics at Mississippi State University in January of 2019. His main role will be as the water economist for the MRVA Water Center, MSU-MAFES and USDA's Agricultural Research Service initiative in Stoneville, MS. His research will focus in improving academic and stakeholder understanding of the economic factors that drive the decline of an aquifer in an area with abundant precipitation and surface water sources.
Prior to joining MSU, Nico was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wyoming in Laramie where he applied his dynamic modelling skills to study wildlife conservation and ecosystem service provision in the context of cow-calf ranching in the rangelands. He earned his Ph.D. at Kansas State University where he worked with professors Jeff Peterson and Nathan Hendricks on research topics related to optimal extraction paths for a declining aquifer under different policy and climate scenarios. While finishing his doctorate, Nico worked as a consultant with the World Bank in Washington, DC, where he studied the productivity of water in agricultural use at a global scale.
Education
- Kansas State University, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Agricultural Economics
- University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Master of Science (M.S.), Economics
- University of Kansas, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration
Research/Extension Interests
Productivity of water in agricultural uses
Groundwater extraction and aquifer decline
Websites
Publications
| Year | Publications |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Singh, B., Kaur, G., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Singh, G., Lo, H., Nelson, K. A. 2023. Row spacing and irrigation management affect soybean yield, water use efficiency and economics. Agricultural Water Management 277. |
| 2023 | Singh, G., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Kaur, G., Gholson, D., Locke, M. A., Krutz, L. J., Cooke, III, T. 2023. Opinions on irrigation water management tools and alternative irrigation sources by Farmers from the Delta Region of Mississippi. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 178. |
| 2023 | Sehgal, A., Singh, G., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Kaur, G., Ebelhar, M., Nelson, K. A., Dhillon, J. S. 2023. Long-term crop rotation affects crop yield and economic returns in humid subtropical climate. Field Crops Research 298. Download |
| 2023 | Singh, B., Kaur, G., Singh, G., Dhillon, J. S., Quintana Ashwell, N. E. 2023. Single and Multispecies Cover Crop Effects on Corn Production and Economic Returns. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 178(1):71-89. |
| 2023 | Russell, D., Singh, G., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Kaur, G., Gholson, D., Krutz, L. J., Nelson, K. A. 2023. Cover crops and furrow irrigation impacts on soybean production in sub-humid climate. Agricultural Water Management 284(108347). |
| 2022 | Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Gholson, D. 2022. Optimal Management of Irrigation Water from Aquifer and Surface sources. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 54(3). |
| 2022 | Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Gholson, D., Kaur, G., Singh, G., Krutz, L. J., Henry, C., Cooke, III, T., Massey, J., Reba, M., Locke, M. 2022. Irrigation water management tools and alternative irrigation sources trends and perceptions by farmers from the Delta regions of the Lower Mississippi River Basin in South Central USA . Agronomy |
| 2022 | Nelson, A., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Delhom, C., Gholson, D. 2022. Leveraging Big Data to Preserve the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer: A Blueprint for the National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research. Land 11. |
| 2021 | Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Anapalli, S. S., Pinnamaneni, S. R., Kaur, G., Reddy, K. N., Fisher, D. 2021. Profitability of twin-row planting and skip-row irrigation in a humid climate. Agronomy Journal 114(2):1209-1219. |
| 2021 | Maher, A. T., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Maczko, K. A., Taylor, D. T., Tanaka, J. A., Reeves, M. C. 2021. An economic valuation of federal and private grazing lands ecosystem services supported by beef cattle ranching in the US. Translational Animal Science 5(3). Download |
| 2020 | Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Gholson, D., Krutz, L. J., Henry, C. G., Cooke, T. 2020. Adoption of Water-Conserving Irrigation Practices among Row-Crop Growers in Mississippi, USA. Agronomy 10(8):1083. Download |
| 2020 | Pinnamaneni, S. R., Anapalli , S. S., Reddy, K. N., Fisher, D. K., Quintana Ashwell, N. E. 2020. Assessing irrigation water use efficiency and economy of twin‐row soybean in the Mississippi Delta. Agronomy Journal 112(5):4219-4231. |
| 2019 | Quintana Ashwell, N. E. 2019. Ranch economics of prescribed grazing on rangelands: the case of representative ranches in Northern Montana. Western Economics Forum 17(1):73-85. |
| 2018 | Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Peterson, J. M., Hendricks, N. P. 2018. Optimal groundwater management under climate change and technical progress. Resource and Energy Economics 51:67-83. |
Extension Publications
| Year | Publications |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Al-Sudani, A., Gholson, D. 2022. And who’s my neighbor? One with On-Farm Water Storage might be a real-life Good Samaritan!. Mississippi State University, MAFES |
| 2022 | Al-Sudani, A., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Gholson, D. 2022. Exploring the role of off-season precipitation and irrigation water use in inter-season changes in well depth to water . Mississippi State University, MAFES |
| 2020 | Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Brooks, M. C., Lacy, R. C., Aust, R. P., Carter, E. R., Havard, S., Vandevere, P. M. 2020. Final Report: Survey of Overlooked Costs of the 2019 Backwater Flood in the Yazoo Mississippi Delta. Mississippi State University Extension Service P3418. Download |
| 2019 | Taylor, D. T., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Maher, A., Maczko, K., Tanaka, J. A. 2019. National and State Economic Values of Cattle Ranching and Farming Based on Ecosystem Services in the US. University of Wyoming Extension Download |
| 2019 | Dyer, H., Hilken, T., Kirkpatrick, H., Roberts, K., Quintana Ashwell, N. E., Maher, A., Maczko, K., Tanaka, J. A., Ritten, J. 2019. Enterprise Budgets for Cow-Calf Operations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. University of Wyoming Extension Download |
Graduate Students
Society Memberships
- Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
- Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- Society for Range Management
- Southern Agricultural Economics Association
- Western Agricultural Economics Association
