Collected Publications for Gardner Policy Series

Mulling Over Margin, Part 3: Chasing the Cost of Production Across Regions

Climate Change and the Farm Bill: A Brief History

2014 Farm Bill Voluntary Base Acre Reallocation: Cost Assessment

Mulling Over Margin, Part 2: the “Elusive” Cost of Production

The Case for a New Crop Insurance Product: Yield Protection with Harvest Price Option

Mulling Over Margin, Part 1: Introduction and Historical Background

Decomposing Crop Revenue Insurance Indemnities into Type of Loss Covered

Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey: 2nd Quarter, How to Encourage Sustainable Food Production

Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey: 2nd Quarter, Views on Inflation

Allowing New Base Acres for Current Program Commodities: An Assessment

Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey: 2nd Quarter, Impact of Inflation

Planting Flexibility and Current US Crop Acres

Reviewing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Part 3: The Bigger Picture

Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey: 2nd Quarter, Initial Results

Reviewing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; Part 2

Reviewing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; Part 1

Corn and Soybean Prevent Plant and the Dakotas

Major Questions: The Supreme Court and the Decline of Textualism

How Americans Acquired Food During the COVID-19 Pandemic: 2020-2022

2024 Farm Bill Dilemma, 1981 Farm Bill, and 2018 Farm Bill Price Support Adjustments

Effective Reference Price – Past and Future

Public Perception of USDA Spending: Gardner Survey Results, Part 4

Public Perception of Government Support for Farmers: Gardner Survey Results, Part 3

Continuous Disaster Aid Programs in U.S. Agriculture: A Policy Discussion

Climate Change & the Food System: Gardner Survey Results, Part 2

Tracking Corn and Soybean Prevent Plant in 2022, Part II

Continued Discussion of Disaster Programs in U.S. Agriculture: Interactions with Crop Insurance

The Continuation of Disaster Programs in U.S. Agriculture: Emergency Relief Program

Introducing the Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey

Reviewing the Latest CBO Farm Bill Baseline

Tracking Corn and Soybean Prevent Plant in 2022

Prevent Plant Policy Options

Administration Efforts to Incentivize Production due to Ukraine-Russia Conflict

On Agriculture & Antitrust: A Brief Summary of Legislative History

Prevent Plant and 2022 Acres: A Looming Issue

US Agriculture’s Strategic Question

Commemorating Earth Day with a Little Legislative History

Monopoly Pricing Power and Fertilizer Prices

Another Curious Case for the Supreme Court; A Test for Textualism

How Related are Crop Insurance and Commodity Program Payments?

Reviewing the President’s Budget for Agriculture, Fiscal Year 2023

Mapping the Farm Bill: Reviewing the CRP; Law, Land & History

ARC vs. PLC: Their Different Policy Objectives and the Design of Commodity Programs

Revisiting Ukraine, Russia, and Agricultural Commodity Markets

2022 Commodity Program Decision: ARC-CO – PLC Decision Indicator

Conservation Reserve Program’s Evolving Mission

Policy Budget for Cover Crops and the Lesson of Crop Insurance

How Well Have Farmers Done in Choosing Between ARC-CO and PLC

2020 Commodity Program Payment Dashboard

US Labor Market and Labor Wage Inflation

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