Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America

2003 - 2024

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2024, volume 2024

ERS Introduces Two New Measures Characterizing Rugged Terrain in the United States

John Cromartie and Dobis, Elizabeth, A.

Concentration in U.S. Meatpacking Industry and How it Affects Competition and Cattle Prices

James M. MacDonald

Pandemic-Related Increase in Consumer Restaurant Spending Using Mobile Apps Continued Through 2022

Keenan Marchesi

New Survey Data Show Online Grocery Shopping Prevalence and Frequency in the United States

Brandon Restrepo and Eliana Zeballos

Food Spending Shifted in Response to Pandemic Changes for Food Away From Home Continued Through 2022

Keenan Marchesi and Patrick W. McLaughlin

U.S. Pork Exports Projected to Surpass Chicken in the Next Decade

Brian Williams, Erik Dohlman and Matthew Miller

Farm Size, Specialization Are Among Factors Influencing Financial Performance of African-American Farms in the United States

LaPorchia A. Collins, Tia M. McDonald, Anil K. Giri and Dipak Subedi

Net Migration Spurs Renewed Growth in Rural Areas of the United States

John Cromartie

ERS Research Models Future Effects of Climate Change on Corn and Soybean Yields, Production, and Exports

Noe J. Nava and Jayson Beckman

Farm Households Face Larger Tax Liabilities When Provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 Expire

Tia M. McDonald and Ron Durst

USDA Created Organic Assistance Programs From 2021–23 in Response to Disruptions, Decreased Organic Transitioning Acreage

Sharon Raszap Skorbiansky and Katherine Baldwin

Participation, Payouts in Two USDA Risk Management Programs Vary Widely Based on Market Outcomes

Dylan Turner

New Metric Gauges How Much SNAP Benefits Support Lowest-Income Households

Laura Tiehan, Dean Jolliffe and Juan Margitic

SNAP Online Purchase Pilot Reduced Food Insufficiency Among Low-Income Households During Early Pandemic

Jordan Jones, Kyle Jones, Andrea M. Leschewski and Grace Melo

Common Ground for Agriculture and Solar Energy: Federal Funding Supports Research and Development in Agrivoltaics

Karen Maguire

Dollar Store Entry Affects Rural Grocery Stores More Than Urban

Keenan Marchesi, Sandro Steinbach and Rigoberto Lopez

Ukraine’s Rise in Grain and Sunflower Seed Market Share Limited by Ongoing War

Megan Husby, Bryn Swearingen, Matthew Miller and James Hansen

U.S. Seafood Imports Expand as Domestic Aquaculture Industry Repositions Itself

Christopher G. Davis and Caird E. Rexroad

Understanding Farm Diversity: Insights From the Agricultural Resource Management Survey

Katherine Lacy and Nigel Key

Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Drive Increased Participation in Federal Crop Insurance Program

Dylan Turner and Francis Tsiboe

Analyzing Food Sales Trends at the State Level Using New Series

Wilson Sinclair and Eliana Zeballos

2024, volume 2020

Study Links Federally Declared Weather Disasters to Reductions in U.S. Pork Processing

Samantha Padilla

2023, volume 2023

Since Brexit, United Kingdom's Agricultural Trade With European Union Remains Strong; Opportunities for U.S. Export Emerge

Adam Gerval and Jeremy Jelliffe

World Agriculture Output and Productivity Growth Have Slowed

Keith Fuglie, Stephen Morgan and Jeremy Jelliffe

Unpriced Corn Inventories Higher Than Other Commodities After 2019 Harvest, Study of Pandemic-Related Situation Shows

Noah Miller, Anil K. Giri and Dipak Subedi

Who is Served by USDA Rural Broadband Projects? Study Shows Smaller Share of Eligible American Indians and Alaska Natives Reached by ReConnect

John Pender

ERS Food Dollar's Three Series Show Distributions of U.S. Food Production Costs

Quinton Baker and Chandler Zachary

2016, articles 11

Changes in Food-At-Home Spending by SNAP Participants After the Stimulus Act of 2009 pp. 1

Charlotte Tuttle

Precision Agriculture Technologies and Factors Affecting Their Adoption pp. 1

David Schimmelpfennig

A Look at Calorie Sources in the American Diet pp. 1

Sarah Rehkamp

The Number of Midsize Farms Declined From 1992 to 2012, But Their Household Finances Remain Strong pp. 1

Christopher Burns

FoodAPS Data Now Available to the General Public pp. 1

Elizabeth Larimore, Elina T. Page and John Kirlin

Using the ERS County Economic Types To Explore Demographic and Economic Trends in Rural Areas pp. 1

Lorin Kusmin

2016, articles 10

U.S. Agricultural R&D in an Era of Falling Public Funding pp. 1

Matthew Clancy, Keith Fuglie and Paul Heisey

Illuminating SNAP Performance Using the Power of Administrative Data pp. 1

Mark Prell

Food Insecurity Among Children Declined to Pre-Recession Levels in 2015 pp. 1

Alisha Coleman-Jensen and Michael Smith

Purchases of Foods by Convenience Type Driven by Prices, Income, and Advertising pp. 1

Abigail Okrent

Changes in Farmers’ Financial Status May Affect Crop Insurance Demand pp. 1

Katie Farrin

Share of Farm Businesses Receiving Lease and Royalty Income From Energy Production Varies Across Regions pp. 1

Claudia Hitaj

Americans Spend an Average of 37 Minutes a Day Preparing and Serving Food and Cleaning Up pp. 1

Karen Hamrick

2016, articles 09

Food Price Inflation Has Outpaced Economy-Wide Inflation in Recent Years pp. 1

Annemarie Kuhns and Ryan Kuhns

Increased Consumer Sensitivity to Food Safety Raised Financial Costs of Ground Beef Recalls pp. 1

Fred Kuchler and Rosanna Mentzer Morrison

The Gulf Opportunity Zone Helped Affected Counties Recover Economically After Hurricane Katrina pp. 1

James Williamson and John Pender

Americans’ Seafood Consumption Below Recommendations pp. 1

Linda Kantor

2016, articles 08

Productivity Growth Is Still the Major Driver in Growing U.S. Agricultural Output pp. 1

Sun Ling Wang, Eldon Ball, Richard Nehring and Roberto Mosheim

For Beginning Farmers, Business Survival Rates Increase With Scale and With Direct Sales to Consumers pp. 1

Nigel Key

Voluntary Labeling of Chicken “Raised Without Antibiotics” Has Posed Challenges for Firms and Consumers pp. 1

Maria Bowman and Kandice Marshall

U.S. Beef and Pork Consumption Projected To Rebound pp. 1

Flavius Badau

Percent of Income Spent on Food Falls as Income Rises pp. 1

Charlotte Tuttle and Annemarie Kuhns

An Economic Perspective on Soil Health pp. 1

Maria Bowman, Steven Wallander and Lori Lynch

2016, articles 07

Land Acquisition and Transfer in U.S. Agriculture pp. 1

Daniel Bigelow and Todd Hubbs

U.S.-Mexico Agricultural Trade: Opportunities for Making Free Trade Under NAFTA More Agile pp. 1

Steven Zahniser, Adriana Herrera Moreno and Arturo Calderón Ruanova

Farm Bill Income Cap for Program Payment Eligibility Affects Few Farms pp. 1

Ron Durst and Robert Williams

Processing and Marketing Blunt the Impact of Volatile Farm Prices on Retail Dairy Prices pp. 1

Hayden Stewart, William Hahn, Jerry Cessna and Christopher G. Davis

States Differ in the Distribution of WIC Benefits Across Types of Retail Food Stores pp. 1

Alana Rhone and Laura Tiehen

Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Technical Barriers to Trade: How Much Do They Impact U.S.-EU Agricultural Trade? pp. 1

Shawn Arita, Jayson Beckman and Lorraine Mitchell

2016, articles 06

A Closer Look at Declining Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Using Linked Data Sources pp. 1

Biing-Hwan Lin and Rosanna Mentzer Morrison

Butter and Margarine Availability Over the Last Century pp. 1

Jeanine Bentley and Mark Ash

A Bigger Piece of the Pie: Exports Rising in Share of U.S. Apple Production pp. 1

Agnes Perez

Oil Prices and Ethanol Demand Drive Changes in Agricultural Commodity Production in Brazil pp. 1

Constanza Valdes, Kim Hjort and Ralph Seeley

India Emerges as a Major Beef Exporter pp. 1

Maurice Landes, Alex Melton and Seanicaa Edwards

Food Insecurity and Hispanic Diversity pp. 1

Matthew Rabbitt, Michael Smith and Alisha Coleman-Jensen

Trends in Farm Sector Debt Vary by Type of Debt and Lender pp. 1

Kevin Patrick and Ryan Kuhns

Production, Transportation, and Policy Factors Determine U.S. Export Competitiveness in World Corn and Soybean Markets pp. 1

Birgit Meade and William McBride

2016, articles 05

The Power of Proximity: Ethanol Refineries Drive Increased Corn Planting in Their Vicinity pp. 1

Mesbah Motamed

Five Years of Population Loss in Rural and Small-Town America May Be Ending pp. 1

John Cromartie

Linking Federal Food Intake Surveys Provides a More Accurate Look at Eating Out Trends pp. 1

Joanne Guthrie, Biing-Hwan Lin and Travis Smith

2016, articles 04

Major Factors Affecting Global Soybean and Products Trade Projections pp. 1

Tani Lee, Anh Tran, James Hansen and Mark Ash

Recent Evidence on the Effects of Food Store Access on Food Choice and Diet Quality pp. 1

Michele Ver Ploeg and Ilya Rahkovsky

Retail Food Price Inflation Varies Geographically pp. 1

Annemarie Kuhns and David Levin

Cost Savings From Precision Agriculture Technologies on U.S. Corn Farms pp. 1

David Schimmelpfennig

2016, articles 03

India’s Agricultural Growth Propellers pp. 1

Nicholas Rada and David Schimmelpfennig

After a Sharp Rise Between 1990 and 2005, Supercenters’ Share of At-Home-Food Spending Has Leveled Off pp. 1

Annette Clauson and Howard Elitzak

2016, articles 02

Patterns in FDA Food Import Refusals Highlight Most Frequently Detected Problems pp. 1

John Bovay

Thin Markets Raise Concerns, But Many Are Capable of Paying Producers Fair Prices pp. 1

Michael Adjemian, B Brorsen, Tina L. Saitone and Richard J. Sexton

Local Foods and Farm Business Survival and Growth pp. 1

Nigel Key

Investigating Temporal Effects on Measured SNAP Participation Rates pp. 1

Constance Newman and Mark Prell

Farm Production Practices To Preserve Non-Genetically Engineered Product Markets pp. 1

Catherine Greene and Seth J. Wechsler

The United States Is the World’s Leading Poultry Exporter to Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1

Fawzi Taha

2016, articles 01

Agriculture Risk Coverage Program Proves More Popular Than the Supplemental Coverage Option pp. 1

Erik O'Donoghue and Ashley Hungerford

Consumers Behaved Rationally, If Belatedly, After Food Safety Recalls in 2011 and 2012 pp. 1

Fred Kuchler

Retail Egg Price Volatility in 2015 Reflects Farm Conditions pp. 1

Annemarie Kuhns and David Harvey

USDA’s After-School Snack Program More Common in Elementary Schools in Poor Urban Areas pp. 1

Clare Cho and Joanne Guthrie

Japanese Beef Imports by Exporting Source and the Impacts of Tariff Reforms pp. 1

Andrew Muhammad, Kari Heerman, Alex Melton and John Dyck

Rice Imports Help Alleviate Haiti’s Food Needs pp. 1

Nancy Cochrane, Nathan Childs and Stacey Rosen

No-Till or Strip-Till Use Varies by Region pp. 1

Tara Wade and Roger Claassen

Understanding America’s Diverse Family Farms pp. 1

Robert Hoppe and James MacDonald