The Bush administration has proposed major changes in federal funding mechanisms for state agricultural experiment station research. The objective of this article is to examine winners and losers from proposed changes in the proportions of federal-formula versus competitive grant funding of...

Allocations of research funds across programs are often made for efficiency reasons. Social science research is shown to have small, lagged but significant effects on U.S. agricultural efficiency when public agricultural R&D and extension are simultaneously taken into account. Farm management...