As an aid to providing expanded and more complete information to agricultural policymakers, an agricultural policy simulator (POLYSIM) was developed and used to analyze alternative agricultural policy proposals and economic conditions. This report describes what POLYSIM does and the types of...

Whether the next farm bill is a slightly modified extension of the 1996 Farm Bill or is significantly different from the current bill will hinge on how the 1996 Farm Bill is perceived to have performed. With no supply management provisions in the 1996 Farm Bill, the crop markets have not shown a...

Livestock feed demand is a collection of derived feed demands by various livestock categories. A structural understanding of demand for feed grains and total concentrates requires knowledge of separate feed demand relationships for each major livestock category. While a number of aggregate...