U.S. farms vary greatly in size, specialty, and household characteristics. U.S. regions differ markedly in natural resource endowments. And States themselves are widely divergent in terms of their preferences as to how funds from agricultural programs should be spent. Given this diversity, can...

Economic analysis of agricultural supply response frequently requires that county crop production data be combined A random coefficient regression model is used to test for aggregation bias under alternative US Department of Agnculture grouping schemes The criterion for aggregation is similarity...