Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues

1986 - 2025

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2025, volume 40, articles 3

Sensing, Thinking, Doing: AI’s Growing Role on the Farm—and What It Means for Farm Work

Gulcan Onel, Fernando Brito, Jared Gars and Conner Mullally

Impact of New Overtime Labor Rules on Farms and Farmworkers

Timothy A. Delbridge and Jeffrey J. Reimer

The Unseen Workforce: How Immigration Enforcement Could Shake the U.S. Economy

Alejandro Gutiérrez-Li

2025, volume 40, articles 2

Are More Socially Disadvantaged Farm Borrowers “Creditworthy” under Farm Service Agency’s Unconventional Credit Risk Assessment Model?

Cesar L. Escalante, Maoyong Zheng and Olawale Akinleye

Underserved or Not Served? Participation Rates Explain Much of the Difference in Agricultural Program and Credit Use across Farm Demographic Groups

Nigel Key, Boris Bravo-Ureta, Michee Lachaud and Eric Njuki

Exploring Differences in Market Facilitation Program Payments by Farmer Characteristics Using ARMS Data

Samantha L. Padilla, Stephen Morgan, Nigel Key and Nathan Hendricks

Consumer Preferences for Value-Added Foods from Black-Owned Food Companies

Logan G. Moss, Brandon R. McFadden, Saroj Adhikari, Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley, L. Lanier Nalley and Norbert L.W. Wilson

Latino/a Immigrant Farmers in the Midwest Navigate Market Entry and Sales Challenges

Ervin Leiva, Corinne Valdivia, Stephen Jeanetta and Rafael Bakhtavoryan

Whiskey, Wheat, and Wyoming: The Neolithic Brand Story

Thomas Foulke and Benjamin S. Rashford

Federal Government Payments to American Farmers and Ranchers

Anil K. Giri and Dipak Subedi

2025, volume 40, articles 01

Is There Price Fixing in the U.S. Peanut Industry?

Yuliya Bolotova

2025, volume 40, articles 1

Food Demand in a Post-Ozempic World

Brian Roe

The Path to No-Till Adoption: Evidence from a Farmer Survey in South Dakota

Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn and Tong Wang

Measuring Structural Change in U.S. Commercial Banks Involved in Agricultural Lending Using Loan Volumes

Monika Ghimire and Noah Miller

Grocery Inflation is Low, but Why Do Consumers Feel It Is High?

Ashley Jiyoon Kim and Sungeun Yoon

Specialty Crop Agrivoltaics in the Southeastern USA: Profitability and the Role of Rural Energy for America Program

Bijesh Mishra, Ruiqing Miao, Ngbede Musa, Dennis Brothers, Madhu Khanna, Adam Rabinowitz, Paul Mwebaze and James McCall

Theme Overview: The Challenge of Providing Safe and Accessible Food for a Healthy Life

Jane Kolodinsky and Ruiqing Miao

Diverse and (Sometimes) Divergent Needs in Maine’s Wild Blueberry Industry

J.G. Malacarne, Lauren Miller, A.M. Ospina and Bruce Wyatt

Ammonia’s Dual Role in Decarbonizing Energy and Agriculture

Ning Lin, Haoying Wang, Mariam Arzumanyan, Lorena Moscardelli and Mark Shuster

2025, volume 40

Left Behind: Farmers experience limited access to behavioral healthcare

Megan L. Roberts and Thad M. Shunkwiler

2025, volume 39, articles 4

Grand Challenge: To Ensure That All People Have Safe, Affordable, Accessible, and Acceptable Food for Leading a Healthy and Active Life

Norbert Wilson, Lauren Chenarides, Jane Kolodinsky and Kathryn Boys

Automatic Milking Systems: Labor-Savings Route or Costly Gamble for Dairy Farmers?

Alejandro Gutiérrez-Li, Grace Melo, Shaheer Burney, Cesar Escalante and Shree Ram Acharya

Who is to Blame for Food Waste?

Eliot M. Martin, Eliza M. Hallett, Linlin Fan, Brenna Ellison and Norbert L.W. Wilson

Who is Being Blamed for Food Waste

Eliot M. Martin, Eliza M. Hallett, Linlin Fan, Brenna Ellison and Norbert L.W. Wilson

2024, volume 39, articles 4

Who (Will) Eat Rice in the United States?

Willy Mulimbi, Joohun Han, Alvaro Durand-Morat and Khondoker A. Mottaleb

Revisiting Land Use Conversion Trends in the Margins of U.S. Corn Belt

Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn and Tong Wang

Statistics and Research on New and Beginning Producers using Census of Agriculture Data

Ani Katchova and Zhining Sun

Net Zero by 2050: U.S. Dairy’s Climate Pledge and Lessons from Idaho

Tyler Hand, Xiaoli Etienne, Hernan Tejeda and Andres Trujillo-Barrera

How Agricultural Water Conservation Can Save the Great Salt Lake

Man Li and Asif Ahmed Khan

The Perfect Storm That Hit Florida Citrus

Ariel Singerman

Net Zero by 2050: U.S. Dairy’s Climate Pledge and Lessons from Idaho

Tyler Hand, Xiaoli Etienne, Hernan Tejeda and Andres Trujillo-Barrera

Climate and Choice in the Colorado River Basin

James F. Booker

2024, volume 39, articles 03

U.S. Farm Bill Policies to Support America’s Heroes

Adam J. Ingrao, Craig Carpenter, Kristopher Deming, Michael Lotspeich-Yadao and Charles M. Tolbert

Challenges Facing Agritourism: How Are Producers Coping?

Cristina Connolly, Carolanne Cusack, Anita T. Morzillo and Charles Towe

Behavioral Science Advisory Boards Could Strengthen USDA’s Conservation Program Amid Unprecedented Spending and Loading Dock Challenges

Kent D. Messer, Paul J. Feldman, Diya Ganguly, Rich Iovanna and Julie Suhr Pierce

Utah’s Greenbelt Program Has Caused Unintended Effects on Farmland Protection

Man Li, Wai Yan Siu and Arthur J. Capla

A Call for Social Justice-Related Research in Agricultural, Environmental, and Natural Resource Economics

Miesha Williams, Caitlin Caspi, Sarah Jacobson, Melstrom, Richard (Max), Robert D. Mohr, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Brandon Ware

Forever Chemicals and Challenges to Drinking Water Systems

Samantha L. Snyder, Xinde James Ji, Weizhe Weng, Thorsbury, Di Fang, Suzanne, Michael T. Olexa and Sean Olivnik

Machine Learning (ML) Platforms Can Contradict Dairy Scientists and Feed Firm Websites Regarding Dairy Cattle Performance from Feeding Seaweed Supplements

O’Keefe, Siobhan, Rick Welsh, Mercy Oppong, Ryan Fitzgerald, David Conner, Michelle Tynan, Nichole Price and Charlotte Quigle

Theme Overview: U.S. Agricultural Trade and ASEAN

Andrew Muhammad, Md Deluair Hossen and Amanda M. Countryman

Cotton Markets in ASEAN Countries and U.S. Export Potential

Darren Hudson and Tanmoy Ghose

U.S. Meat Export Potential in ASEAN

Taís C. Menezes and Amanda M. Countryman

U.S. Timber Trade and Vietnam: Exploring the Impacts of the Trade War and Environmental Policies

Andrew Muhammad, Shamar Stewart and Md Deluair Hossen

U.S. Soy Exports Could Crush it in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Kelsey Story, Scott Gerlt and Amanda M. Countryman

Theme Overview: U.S. Agricultural Trade and ASEAN

Andrew Muhammad, Md Deluair Hossen and Amanda M. Countryman

2024, volume 39, articles 3

U.S. Agricultural Trade Challenges Amid Climate and Geopolitical Disruptions

Raghav Goyal, Sandro Steinbach, Yasin Yildirim and Xiting Zhuang

Navigating through Whitewater: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities in the Colorado River Basin

Mehdi Nemati and Ariel Dinar

Threading the Needle: Upper Colorado River Basin Responses to Reduced Water Supply Availability

Mahdi Asgari and Kristiana Hansen

Water Justice Concerns in the Colorado River Basin

Bonnie Colby and Zoey Reed-Spitzer

Agricultural Producer Decision Making around Water Conservation in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Daniel Mooney and Kristiana M. Hansen

Arizona Policy Responses to Water Shortage: Can They Have an Impact?

George B. Frisvold

The Buzz About U.S. Honey Consumption

Courtney Bir, Lixia Lambert and K. Aleks Schaefer

Upskilling and Reskilling among Rural Employees

Laxmi D. Adhikari and Bhagyashree Katare

Economic Impacts of Climate Change on the Agricultural Sector of the Colorado River Basin

Daniel Crespo, Mehdi Nemati, Ariel Dinar, Zachary Frankel and Nicholas Halberg

2024, volume 39, articles 2

Soak or Flow? Choosing the Right Water Path for Potatoes

Hope Nelson, Judyson de Matos Oliveira, John Lai and Lincoln Zotarelli

2024, volume 39, articles 02

Pervasive Disadoption Substantially Offsets New Adoption of Cover Crops and No-Till

Alejandro Plastina, Wendiam Sawadgo and Emmanuel Okonkwo

Agricultural District Programs Provide Flexible Options for Farmland Preservation

Andrew B. Waters

A Growing Common Challenge: Herbicide Resistance and Farmers’ Attitudes Toward Collective Management in Argentina

Ariel Singerman and Sergio Lence

Prospects for Innovative Rural Firms in an Era of Broadband Expansion

Thomas Keene, Scott T. Loveridge, John T. Mann and Elizabeth A. Mack

2024, volume 39, articles 01

E-Verify and Its Implications for U.S. Agriculture

Kuan-Ming Huang, Derek Farnsworth, Zhengfei Guan and Yi Li

Foreign Competition Reshaping the Landscape of the U.S. Blueberry Market

A. Malek Hammami, Zhengfei Guan and Xiurui Cui

Protecting H-2A Workers’ Rights and Welfare

Cesar L. Escalante and Carmina E. Taylor

A Slowdown in U.S. Crop Yield Growth

David Boussios

An Outlook on Evidence-Based Policy Making

Lauren Chenarides, Andrew S. Hanks, Amelia Finaret, George Davis and Andrea Carlson

Whither the H-2A Visa Program: Expansion and Concentration

Marcelo Castillo, Philip Martin and Zachariah Rutledge

U.S.–Mexico GM Corn Trade Dispute

Stephen Devadoss, William Hall and Jeff Luckstead

Agricultural Use of Reclaimed Water in Florida

Wen Liu, Gulcan Onel and Pilar Useche

Is There Price Fixing in the U.S. Pork Industry?

Yuliya Bolotova

2024, volume 39

United States' Consumers Seafood Purchasing Behaviors And Habits

Sharon Xin Ying Chuah, Zhifeng Gao and Razieh Farzad