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

1986 - 2025

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2025, volume 40, articles 4

Theme Overview: Modern Challenges and Resilience Strategies in the US Dairy Industry

Luis Peña-Lévano

Labor Constraints and Automation Trends in California and Wisconsin Dairy Farming

Luis Peña-Lévano, Shaheer Burney, Luis Garcia-Covarrubias and James Salfer

The Unexpected Battle Against Avian Flu in US Dairy

Luis Garcia-Covarrubias, Luis Peña-Lévano, Allan F. Pinto and Richard V. Pereira

What Do Dairy Farmers Think of Sustainability? Economic, Demographic, and Sociological Antecedents of Sustainable Practices

Shaheer Burney, Maria Zillges, Michael Bell, Rachel Gurney and Valerie Stull

After a Decade of Genomic Testing, Are Milk Yields Being Impacted?

Jared Hutchins and Victor Funes-Leal

Beef-on-Dairy Crossbreeding Offers Additional Income for US Dairy Farms

Allan F. Pinto, Karl-Friedrich Boy, Luis Peña-Lévano, Luis Garcia-Covarrubias, Shaheer Burney and Sushil Paudyal

Changes to Milk Pricing Formulas Under Federal Milk Marketing Orders Will Affect Farm Milk Prices

Charles F. Nicholson, Christopher A. Wolf and Mark W. Stephenson

From Ocean to Pasture: A Potential Sustainability Option for Cattle and Dairy Farmers

Emerson Searl, Meri Hambaryan, Andrew Ropicki and John Lai

Labor and Interest Expenses of American Farms and Ranches

Anil K. Giri and Dipak Subedi

Where Are the Workers? A Look at the Labor Needs of Livestock Farmers

Alejandro Gutiérrez-Li, Sulakshan Neupane and Cesar Escalante

From Juice to Beer: How Far Will the Local Movement Go?

Xiurui Cui and Zhengfei Guan

The Importance of Third Places in Rural Communities

Andrew J. Van Leuven

Yield Impacts of Agricultural Conservation Programs

Wei Zhang, Yanggu Li and John Bovay

Profit Margin Squeeze When H-2A Labor Becomes More Expensive

Cesar L. Escalante, Raphael Yewande, Susmita Ghimire and Esendugue G. Fonsah

Outlook of India Rice Production and International Rice Price

Willy Mulimbi and Alvaro Durand-Morat

A Rainbow on the Farm: Specialty Crops for a Healthier Agroecosystem

Yunsun Park, Seong D. Yun, Kuan-Ming Huang and Brandy E. Phipps

Patterns of Sustainability Practices in North Carolina’s Ornamental Horticulture Industry

Nick Berenson, Amanda Solliday, Daniel Tregeagle and Melinda Knuth

Buzzing Toward Sustainability: Protecting Pollinators to Strengthen Specialty Crop Production

D. Adeline Yeh, Christina Estela Brown and Brittney K. Goodrich

Sustainable Soil, Sustainable Specialty Crops Production: How Soil Liming Impacts Profits and Rotations

Mohammed Beroud, Xiaoli Fan, Miles Dyck and Linda Y. Gorim

Production Processes and Sustainability Challenges for US Sweetpotatoes

Kuan-Ming Huang, Will Maples and Chang Liu

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

Sourcing Vanilla Closer to Home: Market Potential for US Production

A. Malek Hammami and Claire D. Elliott

Is There Price Fixing in the U.S. Broiler Chicken Industry?

Yuliya Bolotova

From Farm Kids to Ag Tech Leaders: Who's Driving Precision Agriculture?

Whoi Cho and Tong Wang

Town and Country: Linking Agriculture and the Nonfarm Rural Economies

Steven C. Deller and Mckenzie Boyce

Interactions between Crop Insurance and Conservation Practices: Insights from Analysis of Farm Survey and Farm Program Data

Zhushan Du, Hongli Feng and J. G. Arbuckle

What Explains the Recent Slowing Growth of the Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Market?

Jiayu Sun, Vincenzina Caputo and Hannah Taylor

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