Research

I'm Shellye. I study the economics of food and agriculture.


My Publications

Barnes, M., Suttles, S., Carman-Sweeney, E., Houser, M., Irvine, R., Mooney, S., Novick, K., Pruitt, A., Royer, T., Seibert, K., Tank, J., Wang, X., and L. Yoder. (2026). “Cover Crops as Nature-Based Climate Solutions in the Midwestern US: Potential Benefits, Knowledge Gaps, and Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Work.” Earth’s Future. 14(1): January 2026. DOI

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Rabbitt, M.P., Reed-Jones, M., Hales, L.J., Suttles, S., and M.P. Burke. (2025). Household food security in the United States in 2024. USDA Economic Research Service. Economic Research Report No. 358 (ERR-358). URL

Currie, T.L., Crawford, C., Deuster, P.A., Lindsey, A.T., Rittenhouse, M., Kirkpatrick, K., Robinson, D., Troncoso, M.R., McCarthy, M., Paolicelli, C., Turay, M., McConville, M., Suttles, S., Rabbitt, M.P., Adler, A.B., and J.M. Scott. (2025). “Leader-Inspired Nutrition: A Framework for Promoting Healthy Nutrition Behaviors and a Nutritionally Fueled and Fit Military Force.” Nutrients. 17(3835). DOI

Wang, X., Barnes, M.L., Yoder, L., Williams, C.A., Tank, J.L., Royer, T., Suttles, S., and K.A. Novick. (2025). “The albedo-driven climate mitigation potential of no-till management in the Midwestern U.S.” Communications Earth & Environment. 6(580). DOI

Beymer, M.R., Paolicelli, C.P., Reagan, J.J., Suttles, S.A., and M.P. Rabbitt. (2025). “The Association Between Food Security and Military Satisfaction Among a Representative Sample of the Active-Duty United States Military Service Members, 2020.” Military Medicine. DOI

Duncan, D., Navarro, L., and S. Suttles. (2025). “The Role of the Charitable Food Assistance During Times of Crisis.” Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. 4(1):118-134. DOI

Suttles, S., Wade, T., and L. Walters. (2025). “The Potential for Increased Emissions due to the Electronic Logging Device Mandate.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 2025(47):354–371. DOI

Suttles, S. and R.D. Sands. (2024). “Where there is no law: The potential global impacts of improving food consumption and reducing food waste.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. 31(2):205-228. URL

Miguel Andres, U., Mansker, B.L., Suttles, S. and S.K. Naramore. (2024). “Understanding the relationship between limited food access and health outcomes of children with obesity.” Pediatric Obesity. 2024:1-11. DOI

Suttles, S., Babb, A., and D. Knudsen. (2024). “Submitted and Denied: Understanding Variation in Case Status Across Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Applications.” Food Policy. 123 (February 2024). DOI

Babb, A.M., Suttles, S.A., Daellenbach, I., DuPilka, J.H., and D.C. Knudsen. (2023). “Adequacy of SNAP Benefits for Indiana Households, 2022.” American Journal of Public Health. 113(S3), S224-S226. DOI

Biggs, H., Suttles, S., and S. Bardzell. (2023). “Redlining Maps and Terrains of Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Mapping of Racialized Redlining to Present-Day Sustainability Agendas in HCI.” CHI ‘23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 2023. Article No.: 141. 1–18. DOI

Baldos, U.L.C., Chepeliev, M., Cultice, B., Huber, M., Meng, S., Ruane, A.C., Suttles, S., and D. van der Mensbrugghe. (2023). “Global-to-local-to-global interactions and climate change.” Environmental Research Letters. 18(5), 053002. DOI

Sands, R. and S. Suttles. (2022). “World Agricultural Baseline Scenarios through 2050.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. July 2022. DOI

Wade, T., Suttles, S., and L.M. Walters. (2021). “How Might the Electronic Logging Device Mandate Affect Fresh Produce Shipments and Costs?” Choices. 36(3): September 2021. URL

Robinson, J.M., Mzali, L., Knudsen, D., Farmer, J., Spiewak, R., Suttles, S., Burris, M., Shattuck, A., Valiant, J., and A. Babb. (2021). “Food after the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Case for Change Posed by Alternative Food: A Case Study of the American Midwest.” Global Sustainability. February 2021. DOI

Walters, L., Wade, T., and S. Suttles. (2020). “Food and Agricultural Transportation Challenges Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Choices. 35(3): September 2020. URL

Fernhaber, S., Wada, T., Napier, P., and S. Suttles. (2019). “Engaging Diverse Community Stakeholders to Co-create Solutions in Food Deserts: A Design-thinking Approach.” Journal of Public Affairs. 19(3): August 2019. DOI

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Sands, R., Malcolm, S., Suttles, S., and E. Marshall. (2017). “Dedicated Energy Crops and Competition for Agricultural Land.” USDA Economic Research Service. Economic Research Report No. 223 (ERR-223). 66 pp, January 2017. URL

Sands, R.D. and S.A. Suttles. (2017). “Climate Economics, Bioenergy, and Land Use in a General Equilibrium Framework.” WSPC Reference of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy: Volume 4 – Computable General Equilibrium Models. Ed. Ariel Dinar. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company.

Hitaj, C. and S. Suttles. (2016). “Trends in U.S. Agriculture’s Consumption and Production of Energy: Renewable Power, Shale Energy, and Cellulosic Biomass.” USDA Economic Research Service. Economic Information Bulletin No. 159 (EIB-159). 53 pp, August 2016. URL

Low, S.A., Adalja, A., Beaulieu, E., Key, N., Martinez, S., Melton, A., Perez, A., Ralston, K., Stewart, H., Suttles, S., Vogel, S., and B.B.R. Jablonski. (2015). “Trends in U.S. Local and Regional Food Systems.” USDA Economic Research Service. Administrative Publication No. 68 (AP-068). 89 pp, January 2015. URL

Suttles, S.A., Tyner, W.E., Shively, G., Sands, R.D., and B. Sohngen. (2014). “Economic Effects of Bioenergy Policy in the United States and Europe: A General Equilibrium Approach Focusing on Forest Biomass.” Renewable Energy, 69:428-436. DOI

Martinez, S., Hand, M. Da Pra, M., Pollack, S., Ralston, K., Smith, T., Vogel, S., Clark, S., Lohr, L., Low, S., and C. Newman. (2010). “Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues.” USDA Economic Research Service. Economic Research Report No. 97 (ERR-97). 87 pp, May 2010. URL

Clark, S.A. and M.I. Marshall. (2010). “Women, goal orientation and success: A family business perspective.” United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Nashville, TN. USASBE, Nashville, 2010. 1193-1214.

Marshall, M.I., Quagrainie, K., and S. Clark. (2010). “Aquaculture Small Business Startup Kit.” EC-757-W. Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN, USA. URL