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Volume 31, issue 4, 2016

Theme Overview: Looking Ahead to the Next Farm Bill pp. 2

Carl Zulauf

Theme Overview: Herbicide Resistance Management pp. 4

George Frisvold and David E. Ervin

Theme Overview: Addressing the Challenges of Entry into Farming pp. 5

Mary Clare Ahearn

The Nutrition Title’s Long, Sometimes Strained, but Not Yet Broken, Marriage with the Farm Bill pp. 5

Parke Wilde

Survival Rates of Rural Businesses: What the Evidence Tells Us pp. 5

Steven Deller and Tessa Conroy

Federal Benefits for Livestock and Specialty Crop Producers pp. 6

Stephanie Mercier

Herbicide Use Trends: A Backgrounder pp. 7

Craig D. Osteen and Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo

Farmers’ Perspectives on Management Options for Herbicide-Resistant Weeds pp. 7

Raymond Jussaume and Katherine Dentzman

80 Years of Farm Bills—Evolutionary Reform pp. 7

Carl Zulauf and David Orden

Alternative Policies to Address Emissions in U.S. Dairy Farming pp. 7

Eric Njuki and Boris Bravo-Ureta

Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program – Accomplishments in the Making pp. 8

Jill S. Auburn, Denis Ebodaghe, Desiree K. Rucker-Ross and Wesley R. Dean

Inconvenient Truths about Landowner (Un)Willingness to Grow Dedicated Bioenergy Crops pp. 8

Bradford L Barham, Daniel Mooney and Scott Swinton

The United States and Cuba: As Diplomatic Relations Warm, Do Trade Relations? pp. 8

Messina, William A.,, Spiro Stefanou and Frederick S. Royce

Shock and Awe Pest Management: Time for Change pp. 8

Terrance Hurley

Are Community-Based Approaches to Manage Herbicide Resistance Wisdom or Folly? pp. 8

David Ervin and George Frisvold

The Next Farm Bill May Present Opportunities for Hybrid Farm Conservation Policies pp. 8

Jonathan Coppess

The Farm Safety Net for Field Crops pp. 8

Gary Schnitkey and Carl Zulauf

Federal Interventions in Milk Markets pp. 8

Andrew M. Novakovic and Christopher Wolf

Beginning Farmer Policy Options for the Next Farm Bill pp. 9

Juli Obudzinski

Mutual Accountability Opens Private-Sector Opportunities in African Agriculture pp. 9

James Oehmke

Seed Prices, Proposed Mergers and Acquisitions Among Biotech Firms pp. 11

Aleksandre Maisashvili, Henry Bryant, J. Marc Raulston, George Knapek, Joe Outlaw and James Richardson

Rural Voice and Rural Investments: The 2016 Election and the Future of Rural Policy pp. 14

Douglas J. O'Brien and Mary Clare Ahearn

Volume 31, issue 3, 2016

Theme Overview: Crop Insurance in the 2018/2019 Farm Bill pp. 2

G.A. Barnaby

Theme Overview: Water Scarcity, Food Production, and Environmental Sustainability-Can Policy Make Sense? pp. 3

Ariel Dinar

Land Grants: Back to the Future pp. 3

Michael V. Martin and Janie Simms Hipp

Current Perspectives on the Crop Insurance Farm Safety Net pp. 5

Thomas P. Zacharias and Mechel S. Paggi

An International View on “Correcting the Whimsies of U.S. Fisheries Policy” pp. 6

Viktoria Kahui, Claire W. Armstrong and Naomi S. Foley

The Making of a Farm Bill pp. 6

Stephanie Mercier

The Use of Crop Insurance in Specialty Crop Agriculture pp. 6

Mechel S. Paggi

Dealing with Water Scarcity: Need for Economy-Wide Considerations and Institutions pp. 7

Ariel Dinar

Adaptation, Climate Change, Agriculture, and Water pp. 7

Robert Mendelsohn

Role of Institutions, Infrastructures, and Technologies in Meeting Global Agricultural Water Challenge pp. 7

Rathinasamy Maria Saleth, Nitin Bassi and M. Dinesh Kumar

Labor Compliance in Fresh Produce: Lessons from Food Safety pp. 7

Philip Martin

Crop Insurance Demand More Elastic than Previously Thought pp. 7

Joshua D. Woodard

Off-farm Income: Managing Risk in Young and Beginning Farmer Households pp. 8

Heidi J. Bubela

Enhancing Water Productivity in Irrigated Agriculture in the Face of Water Scarcity pp. 10

Susanne M. Scheierling and David Tréguer

Crop Insurance Will Be at the Center of the 2019 Farm Bill Debate pp. 11

G.A. Barnaby and Levi Russell

Cost-Effective Conservation Programs for Sustaining Environmental Quality pp. 12

Roger Claassen and Marc Ribaudo

Volume 31, issue 2, 2016

Theme Overview: Economic Consequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza pp. 2

Amy Hagerman and Thomas Marsh

Theme Overview: A Future Informed by Agricultural and Social Sciences pp. 3

Mary Clare Ahearn

New Insights on the Impacts of Public Agricultural Research and Extension pp. 6

Wallace Huffman

TTIP and Agriculture: Another Transatlantic Chicken War? pp. 7

Tim Josling and Stefan Tangermann

The Impact of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza on Table Egg Prices pp. 7

Wei Huang, Amy Hagerman and David Bessler

Government Spending to Control Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza pp. 7

Robert Johansson, Warren P. Preston and Ann Hillberg Seitzinger

Experiences and Prospects of Genetically Engineered Crops pp. 7

Jose B. Falck-Zepeda

Agricultural Trade Reform and Tropical Forest Preservation pp. 8

Clayton W. Ogg

Proactive Risk Assessments to Improve Business Continuity pp. 8

Jada Thompson and Dustin L. Pendel

Regionalization of the 2014 and 2015 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreaks pp. 8

Ann Hillberg Seitzinger and Philip L. Paarlberg

Beginning Farmer Credit and the Farm Service Agency’s Role pp. 9

Charles B. Dodson and Bruce Ahrendsen

Local Economies and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza pp. 9

Kamina K. Johnson, Riley Seeger and Thomas Marsh

30 and Daisy: Where’s the Economics in Beef Cattle DNA Testing? pp. 10

Nicole Ballenger, Chris Bastian, Kristi Cammack, Bridger Feuz, Garry Griffith and Justin Schaffer

Volume 31, issue 01, 2016

Farm Finance Theme Overview: Are the Good Times Really Over? pp. 2

Damona Doye

Activists Not Always Interested in Advancing Democracy pp. 3

Terry Townsend

Theme Overview: Producer Impacts of the Food Safety Modernization Act pp. 4

Luis Ribera

Does the Public Care About How Climate Change Might Affect Agriculture? pp. 5

Gi-Eu Lee, Scott Loveridge and Julie A. Winkler

Three Little Words: EPA and the RFS Waiver Authority pp. 6

Jonathan Coppess

Another Perspective on Understanding Food Democracy pp. 6

Brandon McFadden and Spiro Stefanou

The Food Safety Modernization Act and Production of Specialty Crops pp. 7

Luis Ribera, Fumiko Yamazaki, Mechel Paggi and James Seale

The Food Safety Modernization Act and the Marketing of Fresh Produce pp. 7

Alba Collart

The Debate about Farm Nitrates and Drinking Water pp. 7

Mark J. Hanson, Andrew Keller, Michael Boland and William F. Lazarus

The Food Safety Modernization Act and Agricultural Imports pp. 7

Amanda Countryman

Leverage of U.S. Farmers: A Deeper Perspective pp. 7

Paul Ellinger, Allen Featherstone and Michael Boehlje

Recent Trends in U.S. Farm Income, Wealth, and Financial Health pp. 8

Kevin Patrick, Ryan Kuhns and Allison Borchers

Structural Change Implies Unique Role for Federal Credit pp. 10

Charles B. Dodson and Bruce Ahrendsen