New food and agricultural legislation became effective on September 29, 1977. The provisions of the bill may be used to help establish a research agenda for policy analysts. This article highlights what appear to be the most important research i5l:ues. Specifically discussed are the payment...

A shift to worldwide free trade would improve prospects for U.S. livestock and grain producers. Both production and prices would be higher for meat animals and poultry, but but milk prices would be lower. Producers of peanuts, sugar, and some fruits and vegetables would face lower price and...

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...

Estimates are made of possible effects in Indiana of a part-farm general cropland retirement program, operating with and without the type of commodity programs that existed until 1970. Conclusions are drawn from estimates for four major groups of crop and livestock farms in each of five areas of...

The origins and performance of this journal over a 27-year period are reviewed relative to its initial guidelines. Editorial staff, subject content, author affiliation, and distribution are treated, tracing the evolution of economic research from the seminal Bureau of Agricultural Economics to...