The US livestock industry benefits from direct and indirect subsidies at the expense of the environment, public health, and animal welfare. These subsidies result in artificially low meat prices and increased consumption, and create hurdles to fair competition between large and small livestock...

This paper gives a brief survey of forecasting with panel data. Starting with a simple error component regression and surveying best linear unbiased prediction under various assumptions of the disturbance term. This includes various ARMA models as well as spatial autoregressive models. The paper...