Current crop insurance rating procedures consider only performance for the individual crop in question. Recent farm legislation has given producers considerable planting flexibility and, as a result, many have shifted to new crops. Producers without a production history for the new crop may be...

This work uses unique data from three dairy-dependent communities in rural Wisconsin to test established theory and empirical studies that link farm structure to local purchasing patterns. A theoretical model of purchasing choices is developed to derive the demand determinants of local...

Since their emergence as distinct fields of inquiry in the early post-Second World War period there has been an uneasy relationship between growth economics and development economics. The emergence of a richer 'new growth economics' has opened up the possibilities of a more fruitful dialogue...