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

1986 - 2025

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2025, volume 40, articles 3

Demographic Shifts and Economic Opportunities for the Rural Workforce

Mark C. White

Is Climate Change a Driver of Food Price Inflation?

Matthew Gammans and K. Aleks Schaefer

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

Nonemployer Businesses Are Increasing in Number in Rural America

Tessa Conroy, Austin Landini and Mary McDermott

Mechanization Efforts in Fruit Harvesting

Stavros Vougioukas, Manoj Karkee, Stephen Devadoss, R. Karina Gallardo and Diane Charlton

Mechanization Efforts in Fruit Tree Pruning and Thinning

Manoj Karkee, Stavros Vougioukas, Stephen Devadoss and Santosh Bhusal

Are Labor Shortages Pushing the U.S. Nursery Industry toward Automation and Mechanization?

Maria Bampasidou and Jeb S. Fields

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Digital Agriculture

Deborah Goldgaber and Anurag Mandalika

Unintended Consequences of Allergen Food Labeling

Maria Kalaitzandonakes, William William Ridley and A. Bryan Endres

Precision Livestock Farming Technologies in Beef Cattle Production: Current and Future

Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Tong Wang, Hector Menendez and Airish Lou Yago

Pathways to Prosperity: Moving Beyond Growth to Evaluate Change in Community Well-Being

Danielle Schmidt, Tessa Conroy and Steven Deller

Mexican Animal Producers Value U.S. Sorghum as Feed, but Logistics and Policy Support Remain a Challenge

Henry Flowers Portillo, Modhurima Dey Amin, Syed Badruddoza and Olga Murova

Theme Overview: Agricultural Policy, Economics, and Diverse Farms and Farmers

Stephen Morgan and Samantha L. Padilla

Adapting to the Tide: Behavioral Responses to Red Tide along Florida’s Gulf Coast

Ulrich Adegbola, Abhishek Rajan, Olesya M. Savchenko and Christa Court

Key Insights from the 2022 Census of Agriculture

Bryan Combs, Virginia Harris, Julie Weber, Miste Salmon and Dominique Sims

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 E. 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

From Contamination to Climate Change: Emerging Risks at the Nexus of Food Safety and Nutrition, and their Implications for Public Health

Kathryn A. Boys

Trump 2.0 and Farm Labor

Philip Martin and Zachariah Rutledge

Theme Overview: Why Is Mechanization in Specialty Crops So Hard?

Suzanne Thornsbury and Kimberly Morgan

Balancing the Scales: Finding Relative Advantage Incentives for Mechanization of Specialty Crops

Mary T. Serviss and Suzanne Thornsbury

Extension’s Role in Reducing Uncertainty for New Technology Adoption

Andres Bejarano Loor and Fritz M. Roka

Balancing Challenges of Scale and Scope Economies in the Development of Labor-Saving Technology for Specialty Crop Production

Clinton L. Neill

Skill Economies Address the Supply Chain Squeeze

Kimberly Morgan

Theme Overview: Navigating Emerging Technologies in Specialty Crops: Production, Labor, and Ethical Considerations

Maria Bampasidou and Stephen Devadoss

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 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

2025, volume 39, articles 3

Consumer Spending on Plant-Based Meat Alternatives

Lauren Chenarides, Joel Cuffey, Wenying Li, Shuoli Zhao and Brianna Adamo

2025, volume 36, articles 4

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

Emerson Searl, Meri Hambaryan, Andrew Ropicki and John Lai

Tennessee and Kentucky Distilled Spirits: What’s at Stake from a New Trade War?

Andrew Muhammad, R. Jamey Menard and S. Aaron Smith