This paper has two objectives: to analyze acreage supply relationships for corn, the major U.S. feed grain, during the 1948-70 period and to develop and test a general theoretical model for evaluating farm commodity program effectiveness. Hence, special emphasis is devoted to empirical...

Commodity Credit Corporation Grain Storage Operations

Legal Controls Protect Public Grain Storage

Railroads, Grain Transportation, and the Interstate Commerce Commission

The North American Granary: A Policy Research Project Profile

[Supporting Material for “A Bounds Analysis of World Food Futures: Global Agriculture Through to 2050.” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2014 (forthcoming)]

How Government Programs Affect the Supply of Corn

"U.S. Grain Reserve Policies" and "What Has Been Learned About World Grain Reserves?"

The United States was the first country in the world to explicitly offer intellectual property protection for plant varieties. Beginning in 1930, asexually reproduced plants were afforded plant patent protection, in 1970 sexually propagated plants could be awarded plant variety protection...