Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the market impacts of US biofuels and biofuel policies. Design/methodology/approach – Two methods of analysis are employed. The first method looks back in time and estimates what US crop prices would have been during the 2005 to 2009...

Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets. Beginning with a look at the distribution of funds by insurance programs—created to...