This book identifies the long-run trends in global agricultural production, prices, and trade and projects the likely trends of the future.

Whatarethe appropriate role of government in food safety and the changes that should be made in federal policies?

We argue that to support agriculture-environmental policy decision making, stakeholders need 'quantitative back-of-the-envelope' analysis that is timely and sufficiently accurate to make informed decisions. We apply this concept to the analysis of the supply of ecosystem services from...

This study examined possible economic impacts on Northern Plains grain producers of policies that could be undertaken by the United States to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The paper begins with a discussion of the potential effects of the Kyoto Protocol on prices of energy and inputs used in...

The information presented in this report represents data collected from farming and ranching operations in the southern two tiers of counties in Nebraska. This study was based on a random sample of 151 southern Nebraska farms that have annually-planted crop acreage. Information was obtained for...