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

1986 - 2025

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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

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

volume 40, articles 1

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

volume 39, articles 4

Who is to Blame for Food Waste?

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

volume 39, articles 3

Consumer Spending on Plant-Based Meat Alternatives

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

volume 38, articles 4

Is There Price Fixing in the U.S. Beef Packing Industry?

Yuliya Bolotova

Do Consumers Really Know What Cage-Free Is and What It Entails?

Vincenzina Caputo, Aaron J. Staples, Jayson Lusk and Glynn Tonsor

volume 37, articles 2

Wildfires and Smoke Exposure Create Contracting and Crop Insurance Challenges for California’s Wine Industry

Jaclyn D. Kropp and Maria Amarante De Andrade

volume 37, articles 01

Livestock Risk Protection Payments for Feeder Cattle during COVID-19

Christopher N. Boyer and Andrew P. Griffith

Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Banks

Anne T. Byrne and David Just

Filet Mignon: It’s What’s for Dinner? COVID-19 Impacts on the Relative Wholesale Prices of Beef Cuts

Mario Ortez Amador, Nathanael M. Thompson and Nicole J. Olynk Widmar

The Invisible Elephant: Disadoption of Conservation Practices in the United States

Wendiam Sawadgo and Alejandro Plastina

volume 36, articles 4

Can Latinx Entrepreneurship Help Rural America?

Craig Carpenter and Scott Loveridge

How has COVID-19 influenced the OJ market so far?

Yan Heng and Lisa House

U.S. Consumer Food Insights During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hailey Edmondson, Mackenzie Gill, Becca B.R. Jablonski, Jessica Ladd, Jairus Rossi, Samantha Schaffstall, Dawn Thilmany and Tim Woods

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Food Insecurity

Hailey Edmondson, Mackenzie Gill, Becca B.R. Jablonski, Jessica Ladd, Jairus Rossi, Samantha Schaffstall, Dawn Thilmany and Tim Woods

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

volume 36, articles 3

Theme Overview: Agricultural Market Response to COVID-19

Joseph V. Balagtas, Joseph Cooper and Mary Marchant

Estimates of Farm Income and the Outlook for Program Crops and Livestock, Pre- and Post-COVID-19

Seth Meyer and Patrick Westhoff

Agricultural and Food Policy Response to COVID-19

Ashley Hungerford, Anne Effland and Robert Johansson

Impact of COVID-19 and the Lockdowns on Labor-Intensive Produce Markets, with Implication for Hired Farm Labor

Daniel Sumner

The Impact of COVID-19 on United States Meat and Livestock Markets

Joseph V. Balagtas and Joseph Cooper

COVID-19 and the U.S. Dairy Supply Chain

Christopher A. Wolf, Andrew M. Novakovic and Mark W. Stephenson

Has COVID-19 Caused a Great Trade Collapse? An Initial Ex Post Assessment

Shawn Arita, Jason Grant and Sharon Sydow

Consumer Food Buying during a Recession

Jayson Lusk and Brandon McFadden

Transportation Safety Regulations via the Electronic Logging Device Mandate Can Affect Fresh Produce Shipment Costs

Tara Wade, Shellye Suttles and Lurleen Walters

volume 36, articles 2

Do Big Cows Bring Big Profits? Public Grazing Fee Policy’s Impact on Cow Size

Ryan Feuz, Jesse Russell and Dillon Feuz

volume 36, articles 01

Legal Risk Exposure Heightens Uncertainty in Developing U.S. Hemp Markets

Sharon Raszap Skorbiansky, Suzanne Thornsbury and Kevin M. Camp

volume 35, articles 4

Theme Overview: Functional Foods: Fad or Path to Prosperity?

Graciela Andrango and Trent Blare

Can Niche Markets for Local Cacao Varieties Benefit Smallholders in Peru and Mexico?

Trent Blare, Isabel Corrales and Luca Zambrino

Native Potatoes: From Forgotten Crop to Culinary Boom and Market Innovation

André Devaux, Guy Hareau, Miguel Ordinola, Jorge Andrade-Piedra and Graham Thiele

Quinoa Production and Growth Potential in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru

Graciela Andrango, Amy Johnson and Marc Bellemare

Opportunities in Blue Maize Markets for Smallholder Farmers in Central Mexico?

Trent Blare, Mariana Garcia-Medina, Damaris López and Miriam Pérez

Latin America’s Superfood Economy: Producing and Marketing Açaí, Chia Seeds, and Maca Root

Luis Peña-Lévano, Colton Adams and Shaheer Burney

What's the Farmer Worth?

Danielle Ufer, David Ortega and Wen Lin

volume 35, articles 3

The U.S.–Japan Trade Agreement: Will It Lead to Greener Pastures for U.S. Beef?

Lindsay A. Gaesser, Nako Kobayashi and Norbert L. W. Wilson

Indebted and Drained: Student Loans and Rural America

Steven Deller and Jackson Parr

Theme Overview: COVID-19 and the Agriculture Industry: Labor, Supply Chains, and Consumer Behavior

Luis Peña-Lévano, Grace Melo and Shaheer Burney

COVID-19: Effects on U.S. Labor, Supply Chains and Consumption Imagery Article

Luis Peña-Lévano, Shaheer Burney, Grace Melo and Cesar Escalante

Labor Disruptions Caused by COVID-19 in the U.S. Agriculture and Nonfarm Industries

Luis Peña-Lévano, Shaheer Burney and Colton Adams

U.S. COVID-19 Policy Affecting Agricultural Labor

Derek Farnsworth

COVID-19 Risk Factors Vary by Legal Status among Florida Crop Workers

Gulcan Onel, Skyler Simnitt, Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini and Antonio Tovar-Aguilar

The Availability of H-2A Guest Farm Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cesar Escalante, Tianyuan Luo and Carmina E. Taylor

Food and Agricultural Transportation Challenges Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lurleen Walters, Tara Wade and Shellye Suttles

The Path Forward: U.S. Consumer and Food Retail Responses to COVID-19

Grace Melo

Ex-Post Analysis of the 2018 and 2019 Market Facilitation Programs

Anil Giri, Wesley F. Peterson, Sankalp Sharma and Iuliia Tetteh

Spending of Economic Stimulus Payments and Changes in Food Purchasing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

John Lai, Stephen Morgan, Bachir Kassas, Jaclyn Kropp and Zhifeng Gao

volume 35, articles 2

Tariffs on American Soybeans and Their Impact on Land Use Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in South America

Peter Richards, Farzad Taheripour, Eugenio Arima and Wallace Tyner

Grocery Shopping in the Digital Era

Chinonso Etumnu and Nicole Olynk Widmar

The History, Consolidation, and Future of the U.S. Nitrogen Fertilizer Production Industry

Anton Bekkerman, Gary W. Brester and David Ripplinger

Are Fertilizer Capacity Expansion Announcements #FakeNews?

Gary W. Brester and Anton Bekkerman

volume 35, articles 01

Theme Overview: Amplifying the Rural Voice: 2020 Census Challenges and Opportunities

Steven C. Turner

Problem of Low 2020 Census Participation Will Vary with Sociodemographic Factors and Distance from Metro Areas

Zheng Tian, Stephan J. Goetz and Charlie French

Using Community Engagement Approaches to Bolster 2020 Census Participation

John Green, Heather Hanna, Lynn Woo, Rachel Haggard and Anne Buffington

The Impact of Demographic Changes on Funding for Community Development Programs across the United States

Sreedhar Upendram, David Hughes and Victoria Campbell

“Big Data” Provides Insights to Public Perceptions of USDA

Nicole Olynk Widmar

Weather Station Locations are Significant for Drought Insurance

Chad Van Orden, Brandon Willis, Ryan Bosworth, Ryan Larsen, Tanner McCarty and Man-Keun Kim

How the USDA Changed the Way Women Farmers are Counted in the Census of Agriculture

Ryanne Pilgeram, Katherine Dentzman, Paul Lewin and Kelsey Conley