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

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Volume 30, issue 4, 2015

Understanding the Food Democracy Movement pp. 5

Bailey Norwood

Correcting the Whimsies of U.S. Fisheries Policy pp. 8

Daniel Bromley

Agricultural Supply Control: Lessons from the U.S. Dairy and Potato Industries pp. 8

Yuliya Bolotova

What Do We Mean by Value-added Agriculture? pp. 8

Ruoxi Lu and Rebekka Dudensing

Agricultural Labor and Immigration Reform pp. 9

Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu, Fritz Roka and Alicia Whidden

Volume 30, issue 3, 2015

Theme Overview: Agricultural Grain Transportation: Are We Underinvesting and Why? pp. 2

Ken Casavant

Theme Overview: Current Issues in Agricultural Contracts pp. 2

Michael Vassalos

Railroad Competition and Wheat Rates pp. 4

Michael W. Babcock

Contract Farming: What’s In It for Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries? pp. 4

Marc Bellemare

Risk and the Use of Contracts by Vegetable Growers pp. 4

Jack Schieffer and Michael Vassalos

Benefits of Transportation Investments: How You Measure Matters pp. 5

Jeremy L. Sage

Is America Running Out of Farmland? pp. 6

Paul D. Gottlieb

Trends in Agricultural Contracts pp. 6

James MacDonald

Economics of Agricultural Contract Grower Protection Legislation pp. 6

Steven Y. Wu and James MacDonald

Farm Program Elections, Budget Costs, and the WTO pp. 6

Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt and Joseph Glauber

Agricultural Transportation by Rail: Consolidation, Competition and Fuel Prices pp. 7

Kevin Henrickson and Wesley Wilson

Grain Handling and Transportation Policy in Canada: Implications for the United States pp. 7

James Nolan

Using Big Data to Evaluate Agro-environmental Policies pp. 8

John Antle, Susan Capalbo and Laurie Houston

Volume 30, issue 2, 2015

Theme Overview: China as the Leading U.S. Agricultural Export Market pp. 2

Holly Wang

Theme Overview: Revisiting the Evidence and Potential Solutions on Climate Change pp. 3

Bruce McCarl and Brian Murray

Emerging Markets for U.S. Meat and Poultry in China pp. 4

David Ortega, Holly Wang and Maolong Chen

Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Crops pp. 4

Elodie Blanc and John Reilly

Get Ready for Chinese Overseas Investment in Agriculture pp. 5

Elizabeth Gooch and Fred Gale

The Limits of Voluntary Conservation Programs pp. 5

Marc Ribaudo

Where the grass is always greener: dairy farmer location preferences pp. 5

Christopher Wolf, Marin Bozic, Mark Stephenson and Katie Behnke

The Inevitability of Climate Adaptation in U.S. Agriculture pp. 5

Steven K. Rose

Elaborations on Climate Adaptation in U.S. Agriculture pp. 5

Bruce McCarl

Why Have Carbon Markets Not Delivered Agricultural Emission Reductions in the United States? pp. 5

Brian Murray

The 2014 U.S. Farm Bill and Cotton: Proof that the WTO Matters pp. 5

Terry Townsend

China's Growing Participation in Agricultural Markets: Conflicting Signals pp. 6

Fred Gale

The Broiler Industry: Competition and Policy Challenges pp. 6

Tomislav Vukina and Xiaoyong Zheng

GHG Mitigation in the Absence of a National Carbon Market pp. 6

Jan Lewandrowski and Kathryn Zook

Will China Import More Corn? pp. 7

Bryan Lohmar

Trade Agreements: Impacts of the Uruguay Round and Prospects for the Future pp. 7

E. Wesley Peterson

Climate Change, Vulnerability and Food Insecurity pp. 7

John Antle

Integrating Ecological and Economic Considerations for Pollinator Habitat Policy pp. 7

Mariah Tanner Ehmke, Chian Jones-Ritten, Jason Shogren and Thadchaigeni Panchalingam

Volume 30, issue 01, 2015

U.S. Implications of the Smithfield Acquisition by Shuanghui pp. 5

Tian Xia

What policy options seem to make the most sense for local food? pp. 5

Liang, Chyi-lyi (Kathleen)

Consumer Demand for Organiz Milk Continues to Expand-Can the U.S. Dairy Sector Catch Up? pp. 6

Catherine Greene and William McBride

Progress on Broadband Adoption in Rural America pp. 6

James N. Barnes and Kalyn Coatney

The Horse Slaughter Conundrum pp. 6

Dan Lawler and Leon Geyer

What Do We Mean by "Local Foods"? pp. 6

Dawn Thilmany McFadden

What We Know and Don't Know About the Economic Development Benefits of Local Food Systems pp. 6

David Hughes and Kathryn Boys

Managing marketing and pricing risks in evolving agricultural markets pp. 6

Amy M. Nagler, Christopher T. Bastian, Dale J. Menkhaus and Bridger Feuz

Russia’s Economic Crisis and its Agricultural and Food Economy pp. 6

William Liefert and Olga Liefert

The U.S. gestation stall debate pp. 7

Lee Schulz and Glynn Tonsor

Economics of Antibiotic Use in U.S. Swine and Poultry Production pp. 11

Aude Teillant and Ramanan Laxminarayan

Theme Overview: Community Economics of Local Foods

Steven Deller and Maureen Stickel

Theme Overview: Contemporary Choices in Livestock Production

Catherine Greene and William McBride

Volume 29, issue 4, 2014

Hydraulic fracturing and water resources pp. 5

Lucija Muehlenbachs and Sheila Olmstead

Unconventional Oil and Gas Development's Impact on State and Local Economies pp. 7

Amanda Weinstein

Shale Development and Agriculture pp. 7

Claudia Hitaj, Andrew Boslett and Jeremy Weber

Importance of Mineral Rights and Royalty Interests for Rural Residents and Landowners pp. 7

Timothy Fitzgerald

Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Local Governments

Timothy W. Kelsey

Is the Natural Gas Revolution all its Fracked Up to Be for Local Economies?

James Burnett and Jeremy Weber

Volume 29, issue 3, 2014

Welfare Effects of PLC, ARC and, SCO pp. 3

Bruce Babcock

Theme Overview: The 2014 Farm Bill- An Economic Welfare Disaster or Triumph? pp. 4

Barry Goodwin and Vincent H. Smith

Some Trade Implications of the 2014 Agricultural Act pp. 4

Colin Carter

The Negligible Welfare Effects of the International Food Aid Provisions in the 2014 Farm Bill pp. 5

Erin C. Lentz and Christopher Barrett

Multiple Peril Crop Insurance pp. 5

Brian Wright

Losing the Plot? Agricultural Research Policy and the 2014 Farm Bill pp. 5

Philip Pardey, Jason Beddow and Steven T. Buccola

Comparing the United States and Canadian Fair Trade Markets to the Rest of the World pp. 5

Nicholas DiMarcello , Neal Hooker and Nicholas G. Marconi

Conservation, the Farm Bill and U.S. Agri-Environmental Policy pp. 6

Erik Lichtenberg

The Potential Economic Cost and Response to Greening in Florida Citrus pp. 6

Derek Farnsworth, Kelley A. Grogan, Ariena H.C. van Bruggen and Charles Moss

New Tool (FooDS) Identifies Consumers' View on Food Safety pp. 7

Jayson Lusk and Susan Murray

How Connected Are Our Farms? pp. 9

Brian Whitacre, Tyler Mark and Terry Griffin

Volume 29, issue 2, 2014

Theme Overview: Deciphering Key Provisions of the Agricultural Act of 2014 pp. 2

Jody L. Campiche

Theme Overview: Rural Poverty and Food pp. 2

Anil Rupasingha

Agricultural Act of 2014: Commodity Programs pp. 4

Jody L. Campiche, Joe Outlaw and Henry L. Bryant

After Long Argument, Then Compromise, Congress Agrees on Nutrition Assistance Benefit Cuts in the Agricultural Act of 2014 pp. 4

Parke Wilde

Crop insurance in the Agricultural Act of 2014 pp. 4

Keith Coble, Barnaby, Glenn Arthur, and Rodney Jones

Highlights of the Agricultural Act of 2014 for specialty crops pp. 4

Alba Collart and Keith Coble

Is poverty worth fighting wars over? pp. 4

Mark Partridge

Rural Poverty, Food Access, and Public Health Outcomes pp. 5

Amber Canto, Laura E. Brown and Steven Deller

College Education in the Post- Recession Rural Economy pp. 5

Alexander Marré

Conservation and the Agricultural Act of 2014 pp. 8

Bradley Lubben and James Pease

Volume 29, issue 01, 2014

Theme Overview: Economic and Policy Analysis of Advanced Biofuels pp. 2

Gal Hochman

Theme Overview: Higher Education's Roles in Supporting a Rural Renaissance pp. 3

Sam Cordes and Scott Peters

The Potential for Aviation Biofuels— Technical, Economic, and Policy Analysis pp. 3

Wallace Tyner and Ryan Petter

The dairy subtitle of the Agricultural Act of 2014 pp. 4

Mark W. Stephenson and Andrew M. Novakovic

Using Rural Innovation Principles for University Renaissance pp. 5

Timothy Wojan, Charles W. Fluharty and Sam Cordes

Opportunities for Rural Development in Cooperative Extension’s Second Century pp. 5

Scott Loveridge, Don Albrecht, Rachel Welborn and Stephan Goetz

Biofuels at a Crossroads pp. 5

Gal Hochman

Food in Popular Literature pp. 6

Peyton Ferrier

The Decentralization of Immigration Enforcement and Implications for Agriculture pp. 6

Cesar Escalante, Genti Kostandini and Elton Mykerezi

Extension Reconsidered pp. 6

Scott J. Peters

The New Rural-Urban Interface: Lessons for Higher Education pp. 6

Daniel Lichter and David L. Brown

Political Economy of Biofuel pp. 6

David Zilberman, Gal Hochman, Scott Kaplan and Eunice Kim

Technology Forcing and Associated Costs and Benefits of Cellulosic Ethanol pp. 6

John Miranowski

Are Bioenergy Crops Riskier than Corn? Implications for Biomass Price pp. 6

Ruiqing Miao and Madhu Khanna

Cooperative Extension System: Trends and Economic Impacts on U.S. Agriculture pp. 8

Sun Ling Wang