Collected Publications for Gardner Policy Series - farmdoc daily

A Mid-December Look at 2024 Crop Safety Net Payments

December 13, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, and Gary Schnitkey

The Importance of Food Prices in 2024 Election: Results from the Gardner Food & Agricultural Policy Survey

December 5, 2024
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Brenna Ellison, and Jonathan Coppess

MultiCrop Insurance

November 27, 2024
Carl Zulauf and Gary Schnitkey

Reauthorization or Reconciliation: Thoughts on the Farm Bill’s Prospects

November 21, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

Assessing Design of the FARM Ad Hoc Assistance Proposal

November 13, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson

Taking A Closer Look at the Conservation Tradeoff Issues

November 7, 2024
Jonathan Coppess and Yifan Peng

Reviewing the Latest Ad Hoc Payment Proposal in Congress

November 4, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, and Nick Paulson

Fixing Holes in the Current Crop Safety Net

October 30, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess and Nick Paulson

The DIRECT4AG Project, Part 3: Technology for Cover Crop Establishment

October 28, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Anthony Studer, Madsen Sullivan, Rabin Bhattarai, Dennis Bowman, Lowell Gentry, Corey Mitchell, Christopher Navarro, Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Rashmil Panchani, Joseph Quansah and Nathan Johanning

Inflation and Conservation, Part 2: When is Inflation “Not Just” Inflation?

October 24, 2024
Jonathan Coppess and Inder Majumdar

The DIRECT4AG Project, Part 2: Helping Advance Adoption of Cover Crops

October 21, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Anthony Studer, Madsen Sullivan, Rabin Bhattarai, Dennis Bowman, Lowell Gentry, Corey Mitchell, Christopher Navarro, Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Rashmil Panchani, and Joseph Quansah

Net Return to Farm Program Crops: Harvest 2024

October 16, 2024
Carl Zulauf

Innovations in Research and Extension: The DIRECT4AG Project, Part 1; An Introduction

October 14, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Anthony Studer, Rabin Bhattarai, Dennis Bowman, Lowell Gentry, Cory Mitchell, Christopher Navarro, and Joseph Quansah

Conservation Tradeoff: EQIP in the Inflation Reduction Act and the House Farm Bill

October 10, 2024
Jonathan Coppess and Yifan Peng

Loss of US Farmland in the 21st Century, Part II: Regional Perspective for Major Land Use Categories from the Census of Agriculture

October 2, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, and James Baltz

Squeezing the Farmer, Part 1: Initiating Examination of a Persistent Challenge

September 26, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

Hot, Hot, Hot: Preferences for U.S. Spending to Address Extreme Weather

September 25, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Maria Kalaitzandonakes, and Brenna Ellison

Inflation Addendum: Politics and Consumer Expectations in Metro and Non-Metro Areas

September 23, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Maria Kalaitzandonakes, and Brenna Ellison

Loss of US Farmland in the 21st Century: The National Perspective from the Census of Agriculture

September 18, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson

Inflation is Cooling, but are Consumers Convinced? Results from GFAPS

September 16, 2024
Brenna Ellison, Maria Kalaitzandonakes, and Jonathan Coppess

The Unfortunately Obligatory Farm Bill Expiration and Extension Discussion

September 12, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

A Tale of Two Oilseeds: Soybean Saga, Part 3

September 5, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

Crop Insurance as a Payment Program

September 4, 2024
Carl Zulauf and Gary Schnitkey

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

August 29, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

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

August 26, 2024
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Jonathan Coppess, and Brenna Ellison

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

August 22, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

Examining the Restriction on Using SCO Insurance for Acres in ARC

August 21, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, and Nick Paulson

Conservation Tradeoff: Inflation Reduction Act vs. Baseline

August 15, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

Reviewing the Congressional Budget Office Score of the House Farm Bill

August 8, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

Use of Supplemental Coverage Option by Crop

August 7, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Nick Paulson, Jonathan Coppess, and Gary Schnitkey

Policy Design Case Study: EQIP and the Inflation Reduction Act

August 1, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

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

July 24, 2024
Carl Zulauf, David Orden, Nick Paulson, Jonathan Coppess, and Gary Schnitkey

Farm Bill 2024: A Mid-Summer’s Review

July 18, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

Crop Insurance and Statutory Reference Prices

July 17, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, and Gary Schnitkey

US Interest Rates and the Price of Capital

July 10, 2024
Carl Zulauf, David Orden, and Gary Schnitkey

US Inflation and Labor

June 26, 2024
Carl Zulauf

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

June 24, 2024
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Brenna Ellison, and Jonathan Coppess

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

June 17, 2024
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Brenna Ellison, and Jonathan Coppess

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

June 13, 2024
Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, Carl Zulauf, and Bruce Sherrick

Commodity Program Base Acre Update: Overlooked Issues

June 12, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, and Jonathan Coppess

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

June 10, 2024
Brenna Ellison, Maria Kalaitzandonakes, and Jonathan Coppess

Budgetary Dissonance and the 2024 House Farm Bill

June 6, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

History and the 2024 House Farm Bill

May 30, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

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

May 29, 2024
Carl Zulauf, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, and Nick Paulson

An Inflation Question Not Asked: What About Conservation?

May 23, 2024
Jonathan Coppess and Inder Majumdar

Reference Price Disparities & Why It Matters to Farmers

May 16, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, Bruce Sherrick, and Carl Zulauf

The Sprouts of Farm Bill Reauthorization: Reference Prices

May 9, 2024
Jonathan Coppess, Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Carl Zulauf, and Bruce Sherrick

Age of US Farmers: Not a Problem

May 8, 2024
Carl Zulauf

A Menace Reconsidered, Part 5: Reviewing Cover Crops

May 2, 2024
Shae Ruppert, Jonathan Coppess, and Marin Skidmore

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

April 25, 2024
Jonathan Coppess

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