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  1. Assessment and Comparison of Farm Safety Net Proposals

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/855

    Ten Farm Bill proposals as of October 6, 2011 are examined for similarities and differences.  As a group, the proposals are a significant and important evolutionary improvement in the design of a risk management farm safety net, a step that began with the ...

  2. Sustainability of Large Payments by ACRE

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/856

    Like any risk management program, ACRE can make large payments. Given current revenue levels and a large decline in revenue, ACRE payments could exceed $10 billion in a year. However, unlike the marketing loan rate and counter-cyclical target price, ACRE’ ...

  3. Biotechnology and U.S. Crop Yield Trends

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/857

    Biotechnology varieties first became available for commercial use in the U.S. in 1996. By 2011, they accounted for 88%, 90%, and 94% of the acres planted to corn, upland cotton, and soybeans, respectively (U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National A ...

  4. Biotechnology and Variation in Average U.S. Yields

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/858

    In a previous article, we compared the trend in U.S. average yield per harvested acre for the 1940-1995 and 1996-2011 periods. The year 1996 was the first year that biotech varieties of crops were commercially adopted in the U.S.  The analysis included 14 ...

  5. ACRE (Average Crop Revenue Election) Provisions in Food, Conservation, & Energy Act of 2008

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/859

    This 1-page article describes provisions of the ACRE (Average Crop Revenue Election) program as enacted in the 2008 Farm Bill. Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Zulauf- 2008 Farm Bill- ACRE Provisions.pdf ...

  6. "Migration and Imperfect Monitoring: Implications for Intra-Household Allocation." American Economic Review, 96(2), 227–231, May 2006.

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/862

    Monday, May 1, 2006 aer.pdf ...

  7. "Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households." (Previous version available as IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 6265)

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/863

    Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We ...

  8. ACRE State Revenue Payments, 2010 Crops

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/866

    This article examines per acre state level revenue payments made by the ACRE program for the 2010 crop of barley, corn, canola, upland cotton, grain sorghum, oats, peanuts, rice, soybeans, sunflowers, and wheat. For each crop, at least 1 million acres was ...

  9. Country Contribution to World Economic Activity and Growth

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/867

    During the last several months, world economic growth has emerged as an issue. To provide context, this article identifies the 10 countries with the largest economy as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) as well as the 10 countries that have contribu ...

  10. Freedom to Farm, Changes in Planted Acres, and Policy Observations

    https://aede.osu.edu/node/868

    An important change in U.S. farm policy occurred when the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 eliminated acreage set asides. Supply controls had been a feature of U.S. farm policy since the Agricultural Adjustment of 1933. This article ...

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