Collected Publications for Agricultural Policy

A Tale of Two Oilseeds: Soybean Saga, Part 2

Crop Insurance as a Payment Program

Back to Policy Design: The Inflation Reduction Act’s Conservation Assistance

Lowering Food Prices: Do Consumers Think Politicians Are Able to Reduce Costs?

Decline and Fall of Crop Prices; Perspectives for Policy Design, Not Panic

Examining the Restriction on Using SCO Insurance for Acres in ARC

SCO and ECO Payment Prospects for 2024

Conservation Tradeoff: Inflation Reduction Act vs. Baseline

ARC and PLC Payment Prospects for 2023 and 2024

Reviewing the Congressional Budget Office Score of the House Farm Bill

Use of Supplemental Coverage Option by Crop

Agricultural Land Lost to Development in the Midwest

Policy Design Case Study: EQIP and the Inflation Reduction Act

Number of Farms and Land in Farms in the Midwest

US Federal Debt, Interest Outlays, and the Farm Safety Net

Post-Pandemic Entrepreneurial Growth

Farm Bill 2024: A Mid-Summer’s Review

Crop Insurance and Statutory Reference Prices

What is Climate Smart Agriculture?

US Interest Rates and the Price of Capital

How California’s New Locomotive Regulation Could Impact Midwest Agriculture

US Inflation and Labor

The Price is Right? Consumer Preferences for Food Manufacturer Responses to Increased Input Costs

Fair Fare? US Consumers’ Perceptions of Food Pricing ‘Fairness’ in Restaurants and Grocery Stores

Cotton STAX and Modified Supplemental Coverage Option: Concerns with Moving Crop Insurance from Risk Management to Income Support

Commodity Program Base Acre Update: Overlooked Issues

Consumers Continue to Struggle with Inflation and Food Affordability: Results From GFAPS

Budgetary Dissonance and the 2024 House Farm Bill

US Inflation and Interest Rates

Farm Bill Proposals to Enhance Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO)

History and the 2024 House Farm Bill

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

An Inflation Question Not Asked: What About Conservation?

Rural Growth Requires More Housing

Spending Impacts of House Proposal for Commodity Title Changes

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

Reference Price Disparities & Why It Matters to Farmers

Crop Insurance Unit and Adverse Selection

Statutory Reference Prices and the Next Farm Bill

The Sprouts of Farm Bill Reauthorization: Reference Prices

Age of US Farmers: Not a Problem

Base Acre Updating in the Next Farm Bill

A Menace Reconsidered, Part 5: Reviewing Cover Crops

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

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

A Menace Reconsidered, Part 4: Losing Nitrogen

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

The Dilemma of Actuarial Soundness, A Legislative History

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

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

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