Who cares. Look at AAEA. The whole profession seems to be on a downswing in quality. Unless you can get a job at UCB or davis or AAE, why even work at these departments that value quantity over quality.This post is too optimistic. Davis and AAE *are* departments that value quantity over quality and care more about grants than actual research. Maryland is better on this issue, but the department is fighting over it, and it's not clear which side will win. Berkeley is probably the only place left where you can be confident the department will value quality research, not just bean-counting grant dollars and low-quality pubs.
I'm in an ag department and looking to leave, ideally to a non-ag academic job, but to a non-academic job if that's the only way out.
I'm looking to leave a non-academic job to an ag department.