Collected Publications for Agricultural Policy

When It Rains, It Pours: Extreme Precipitation & Nutrient Loss, Part 2

The US Retirement Safety Net

When It Rains, It Pours: Extreme Precipitation & Nutrient Loss, Part 3

First Look at PLC and ARC-CO for 2024

Farm Policy and the Brief Saga of Soybeans, Part 2

Comparing 2024 Effective Reference and ARC Benchmark Prices

US Farm Commodity Insurance Program Trends

Ripple Effects of Shipping Lane Disruptions on U.S. Agriculture

Considering Low Prices, Yields, and Maximum ARC-CO Payments for 2024

US Farm Liquid Assets, Self-Insurance, and Financial Resiliency

Measuring Farm Policy, Part 1: Cash Receipts and Program Payments

County Yield Variability and ARC-CO

2024 Commodity Program Decision from the PLC Perspective

Measuring Farm Policy, Part 2: Conservation & A Nutrient Loss Reduction Perspective

Farm Bill 2024: Reviewing A February Data Blitz and Tough Realities

Cover Crops and Covered Cropland, 2022 US Census of Agriculture

US Dairy Herds and Policy and the 2022 Census of Agriculture

Estimated Likelihoods of PLC and ARC-CO Payments for 2024

Hiding Behind the Baseline: Big Numbers and the Budget Game

Assessing US Performance: Land and 21st Century Field Crop Production

Sizing Up the Food System: US Consumers’ Perceptions of Food System Firm Sizes and Pricing

Measuring Farm Policy, Part 3: Year One with Inflation Reduction Act Funding

A Menace to National Welfare Reconsidered, Part 1: Reviewing the Costs of Erosion

Exploring Yield Growth: US Crops in a Global 21st Century Context

A Menace to National Welfare Reconsidered, Part 2: Reviewing Tillage

A National Menace Reconsidered, Part 3: Conservation Buffers

GFAPS Results: Tracking Public Perceptions of the Agri-Food System for Two Years

Land, not Exports, is the US Field Crop Problem – Part 1, US vs. World

Measuring Farm Policy, Part 4: Basic Input Costs and Payments

The Dilemma of Actuarial Soundness, A Legislative History

Agricultural Land Shifts to the Tropics: A Strategic Challenge for US Crops

A Menace Reconsidered, Part 4: Losing Nitrogen

Workforce Trends in the Midwest’s Food, Agriculture, and Forestry Industries

Measuring Farm Policy, Part 5: Reviewing Assistance for the Major Program Crops

A Menace Reconsidered, Part 5: Reviewing Cover Crops

Base Acre Updating in the Next Farm Bill

Age of US Farmers: Not a Problem

The Sprouts of Farm Bill Reauthorization: Reference Prices

Statutory Reference Prices and the Next Farm Bill

Crop Insurance Unit and Adverse Selection

Reference Price Disparities & Why It Matters to Farmers

Urgency for Enhanced Policy Intervention to Combat Avian Influenza in Dairy Cows

Spending Impacts of House Proposal for Commodity Title Changes

Rural Growth Requires More Housing

An Inflation Question Not Asked: What About Conservation?

Are Changes in Cost of Production and Statutory Reference Prices Related in the House Agriculture Committee 2024 Farm Bill?

History and the 2024 House Farm Bill

Farm Bill Proposals to Enhance Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO)

US Inflation and Interest Rates

Budgetary Dissonance and the 2024 House Farm Bill

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