ERS provides economic information on the near-term agricultural outlook and on longrun projections. Here is an overview of efforts to improve such information through comprehensive quantitative models. The various models incorporate intercommodity relationships within agriculture, aggregate farm...

A model is described that projects land use patterns under both competitive and profit maximizing conditions. Separable programing is utilized to internalize price effects resulting from project production, and to allow extension of the basic model to include cross-elasticities. An empirical...