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FARM ECONOMY - FARM SECTOR AND FARM HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND WELL-BEING
Sponsoring Institution
Economic Research Service/USDA
Project Status
NEW
Funding Source
USDA INHOUSE
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0433762
Grant No.
(N/A)
Project No.
5819
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Program Code
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Oct 1, 2008
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2025
Grant Year
(N/A)
Project Director
Hopkins, J.
Recipient Organization
USDA/ERS
1800 M STREET NW
WASHINGTON,DC 20036
Performing Department
Economic Research Service
Non Technical Summary
Regularly report on issues related to the financial well-being of the farm sector, farm businesses, and farm households. Conducts economic research that informs public program and policy decisions on well-being through reports, data products, and other publications.
Animal Health Component
(N/A)
Research Effort Categories
Basic
0%
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
60161103010100%
Knowledge Area
601 - Economics of Agricultural Production and Farm Management;

Subject Of Investigation
6110 - Economy of the United States and sectors thereof;

Field Of Science
3010 - Economics;
Goals / Objectives
Regularly report on issues related to the financial well-being of the farm sector, farm businesses, and farm households. Conducts economic research that informs public program and policy decisions on well-being through reports, data products, and other publications. The topic area includes research outputs on the determinants of farm sector and farm household financial performance, including analysis of drivers of secular trends in the levels of income, wealth, and well-being as they relate to activities on the farm as well as off the farm. The work also includes research on variability of farm sector and farm household income, and the contribution of source of income to overall variability. Finally, the topic includes research on the impacts of current tax policy on farm sector and farm household well-being. Much of the research carried out uses data collected from ARMS and the Agricultural Census. In some cases, research within the topic area includes development of ways to improve the data that we collect, including efforts to improve the imputation of missing data within the ARMS and Census. Work within the topic area also includes the production of multiple data products. Specifically, the development, interpretation, and dissemination of the Department's annual estimates and periodic forecasts of income, value-added, assets, liabilities, and financial indicators for the farm sector. Within the topic area we also review, update, document, disseminate, and evaluate the model used to produce ERS' annual forecast and periodic updates of farm income and the balance sheet. Measurement of financial stress, including solvency, liquidity, and profitability through financial ratio and other analysis measures for farms as well as within the banking sector is an important topic area within the farm economy. The topic area also includes indicators of the economic well-being of the households of the principal operators of family farms. In addition to aggregate statistics on income, the briefing room presents information on wealth, household involvement in farm programs, health care coverage, beginning farmers, household characteristics, and tax contributions of farm households.
Project Methods
Data products, including the farm sector income and wealth estimates, are produced using documented procedures to derive estimates of revenues, expenditures, and sources of value added for the U.S. and States. Development of the estimates of farm revenues and expenses follows a paradigm that enables the ERS national and state income estimates to be incorporated into the Gross Domestic Product Accounts and Regional Income Estimates produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce. Development of estimates of Value-Added utilizes an approach to estimation that in similar in structure to that used by the OECD, enabling the estimates to fulfill agency commitments to supply value-added estimates to this international organization. Data to underpin annual estimates comes from ERS' ARMS survey, other farm survey results for production and prices disseminated by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), and administrative data obtained from the Farm Service Agency and other sources. Econometric approaches are used to estimate the importance of farm entry, exit, and transition of farms, and to estimate and understand the sources of risk faced by farms. Most of the agricultural finance research that is carried out under the topic area is based on ARMS and Census data and other administrative sources. . Within the tax policy area are models maintained for research purposes, including a model of adjusted gross income used to estimate income tax, and an estate tax model.

Progress 01/01/01 to 09/30/16

Outputs
This project anticipates trends and emerging issues by conducting high-quality, objective economic research as part of the USDA ERS mission to inform and enhance public and private decision making on economic and policy issues related to food, farming, natural resources and rural America. Findings and impacts are represented through a variety of outputs including reports, journal articles, briefings, and conference presentations. ERS shapes its research program and products to serve those who routinely make or influence public policy and program decisions. Key clientele include White House and USDA policy officials; the U.S. Congress; program administrators/managers; other Federal agencies; State and local government officials; and organizations, including farm and industry groups interested in public policy issues. Current listings of ERS published reports and data products, and journal articles by ERS researchers, can be found at www.ers.usda.gov

Impacts
(N/A)

Publications

  • Mishra, A. K., H. S. El-Osta, and M. C. Ahearn, "Determinants of Health Care Expenditures of the Self-Employed: The Case of U.S. Farm Households", Journal of Agricultural Economics, pp.
  • Mishra, A., B. K. Goodwin, 2001, "An Analysis of Risk Premia in U.S. Farm-Level Interest Rates", Agricultural Finance Review, Vol. 60 (1), pp. 1-17
  • Mishra, A., Barry K. Goodwin, Andersons Professor, Dept. of Agri., Eviron., and Dev. Economics, The Ohio State University, "Adoption of Crop Versus Revenue Insurance: A Farm-Level Analysis", Agricultural Finance Review, forthcoming, pp.
  • Mishra, A., El-Osta, H., 2001, "A Temporal Comparison of Sources of Variability in Farm Household Income", Agricultural Finance Review, Vol. 61(1), pp. 181-98
  • Mishra, A., El-Osta, H., 2005, "Decomposition of Variability in Farm Household Assets and Debt", Journal of Agribusiness, Vol. 23, Number 2, pp. 163-182.
  • Mishra, A., El-Osta, H., Johnson, J., Hopkins, J., Morehart, M., 2002, "Assessing the Economic Well-Being of Farm Households", Agricultural Outlook, August, pp. 31-34
  • Mishra, A., Morehart, M., "An Analysis of Tax Deferred Retirement Savings of Farm Households", presentation at AAEA Annual Mtg, Montreal, CA, July 27, 2003. pp.
  • Mishra, A., Timothy A. Park, University of Georgia, "An Empirical Analysis of Internet Use by U.S. Farmers", Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Vol. 34(2)., pp.
  • Mishra, A., Variyam, J., "Demand for Health Insurance by Farm Families", Symposium, WAEA annual meetings, Anchorage, Alaska, June 29, 2006. pp.
  • Morehart, M., "Agricultural Resource Management Survey Phase III, Farm and Farm Household Finances", AAEA post conference presentation, Washington, DC, August 7, 2013. 8 pp.
  • Morehart, M., "ARMS Questionnaire / Data Review Strategy", NASS State Statistical Staff, Kansas City, MO, 14 pp.
  • Morehart, M., "ARMS Trainging Presentation, Section H", NASS Regional Staff, St. Louis, Missouri, January 14, 2014. 11 pp.
  • Morehart, M., "Availability & Dissemination of Survey Data", CNSTAT ARMS Review Comittee, Washington, DC, 20 pp.
  • Morehart, M., "Balance Sheets for Household-Firms in Agriculture", April 4, 2002. 10 pp.
  • Morehart, M., "Dairy Farm Financial Conditions", Dairy Industry Advisory Committee (DIAC), Washington, DC, April 13, 2010. 13 pp.
  • Morehart, M., Dismukes, R., Weyand, B., Agapoff, J., Gollehon, N., An Economic Analysis of the 2002 Drought, Agricultural Information Bulletin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Morehart, M., Johnson, J., "Agriculture Economy Improves in 2003", U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Morehart, M., Johnson, J., "Characterizing the Diversity of Farms and Farm Families: Resource Ownership and Livelihood Strategies", ERS Purdue Policy Wkshp, Indianapolis, IN, October 9, 2003.
  • Morehart, M., Johnson, J., 2006, "Cash Margins Tighten in 2006", Amber Waves, U.S. Department of Agriculture, February, pp.
  • Morehart, M., Offutt, S., Whitener, L., Johnson, J., Tiehen, L., Ghelfi, L., Kassel, K., Gundersen, C., Mishra, A., Kuhn, B., 2000, A Safety Net for Farm Households, Agricultural Economic Report, AER 788, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, October, 34 pp.
  • Morehart, M., Richard Barton, NASS, "ARMS III, NASS & ERS Perspectives on Editing, Data Quality, and Database Preparation", NORC pilot participants, Washington, DC, September 11, 2007. 27 pp.
  • Morehart, M., Tim Mulcahy, NORC, "Access to Micro Data", NASS Senior Management, Milwaukee, WI, September 14, 2010. 30 pp.
  • Nehring, R., Erickson, K., Hallahan, C., Steven Blank, University of California-Davis, "Agricultural Profits and Farm Household Wealth: A Farm-level and Cross-sectional Analysis", AAEA annual meeting, selected paper, Long Beach, CA, pp.
  • Nigel Key, Ruben Lubowski, Michael Roberts, "Decoupling and Production: Did the 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act Correct a Distortion?", Presentation at Environmental Economics Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February 23, 2005. pp.
  • Park, T., Covey, T., McGath, C., Ahearn, M., Weber, J., Morehart, M., Kuethe, T., Harris, M., Erickson, K., Williams, R., Vogel, S., Wozniak, S., Agricultural Income and Finance Outlook, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Ahearn, M., "Ag and Rural Linkages: A 2010 Overview", Chicago Federal Reserve Bank conference on Perspectives on the Intersection of Midwest Agriculture.., Chicago, IL, November 9, 2010. pp.
  • Ahearn, M., "Beginning Farmers and Ranchers across the U.S.", Presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association meetings, Orlando, FL, February 8, 2010. pp.
  • Ahearn, M., "Beginning Farmers and Ranchers", 2010 USDA Cooperators Meeting, St. Louis, MO, pp.
  • Ahearn, M., "BEGINNING FARMERS AND RANCHERS: WHO ARE THEY and POTENTIAL CHALLENGES in GETTING STARTED", Choices, pp.
  • Ahearn, M., "Beginning Farmers and Ranchers: Who Are They?", AW, June 2009, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Ahearn, M., "Comparative Survey Imputation Methods for Farm Household Income", AAEA Invited paper presentation, Denver, CO, pp.
  • Ahearn, M., Durst, R., El-Osta, H., Milkove, D., August 2009 update of Farm Household Briefing Room, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
  • Ahearn, M., El-Osta, H., Mishra, Ashok, "Considerations in Farmers� Work Choices: The Role of Health Insurance", Southern Regional Science Association, Arlington, VA, March 26, 2008. pp.
  • Ahearn, M., Enlow, S., Beginning Farmers and Health Insurance, pp.
  • Ahearn, M., Johnson, J., Clark, S., "Census of Agriculture and ARMS: Important Complements in Analyzing the Diversity of Farming", AAEA annual meetings, Milwaukee WI, July 27, 2009. pp.
  • Ahearn, M., Korb, P., "Beginning Women Farmers and Ranchers", 2010 National Women in Agriculture Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 24, 2010. pp.
  • Ahearn, M., Newton, D., 2009, Beginning Farmers and Ranchers, Economic Information Bulletin, EIB-53, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, May, 27 pp.
  • Ahearn, M., Weber, J., August update to farm household income briefing room, 2012, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
  • Ahearn, M., Yee, J., "Alternative Measures of Farm Size: Trends and Determinants", paper presented at SAEA Annual Meeting, Tulsa, OK, February 15, 2004. pp.
  • Ahearn, M., Yee, J., "Determinants of Farm Size in U.S. Agriculture: Does the Size Concept Matter?", poster presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, July 27, 2003.
  • Allen M. Featherstone, Kenneth E. Erickson, and J. Michael Harris, "Has Off-farm Income and Employment Changed the Leverage Positions of U.S. Farm Operator Households, 1996-2015?"", NC-1177 meeting, Denver, CO, pp.
  • Arita, S., Hemachandra, H. and Leung, P.S., "Can Local Farms Survive Globalization?", Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, pp.
  • Ashok K. Mishra, Charles B. Moss, and Kenneth W. Erickson, 2009, "Regional differences in agricultural profitability, government payments, and farmland values: Implications of DuPont expansion", Agricultural Finance Review, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 49-66
  • Ashok K. Mishra, Charles B. Moss, Kenneth W. Erickson, "Implications of Specialization, Integration, and Size: Application of the DuPont Expansion at the Farm Level", Western Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, pp.
  • Ashok K. Mishra, Kenneth W. Erickson, J. Michael Harris, Charles Hallahan, and Hiroki Uematsu, "Determinants of Farm Household Income Diversification in the United States: Evidence from Farm-Level Data", Power Point presentation of selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting 2010, Denver, Colorado, pp.
  • Ashok Mishra and Hisham El-Osta, 2016, "Determinants of Decisions to Enter the U.S. Farming Sector", Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, pp. 73-98
  • Banker, D., "ARMS Phase III Data Processing and Analysis", paper presented at FAO Regional Consultation on Statistics for Farmer Income, Bangkok, Thailand, pp.
  • Banker, D., "ARMS Sample Design Weight Estimation and Imputation", presention at ERS Arms Training Workshop, Washinton, DC, 25 pp.
  • Banker, D., Susan Hicks, NASS, "ARMS Sample Design", NORC pilot participants, Washington, DC, September 11, 2007. 13 pp.
  • Beckman, J., Hoffman, L., Wailes, E., "Are U.S. Rice Farm Programs Supply Distorting: Evidence from the 1996 and 2002 Farm Bills", poster presented at AAEA Annual Meeting,
  • Beckman, J., Schimmelpfennig, D., "Determinants of Farm Income", pp.
  • Brian C. Briggeman, Charles A. Towe, and Mitchell J. Morehart, 2009, "Credit Constraints: Their Existence, Determinants, and Implications for U.S. Farm and Non-Farm Sole Proprietorships", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 275-289
  • Briggeman, Brian, Charles Towe, and Mitch Morehart, "Credit Access: Implications for Sole-Proprietor Household", AAEA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, pp.
  • Burnett, Kuethe, and Price, "Consumer Preference for Locally Grown Produce: An Analysis of Willingness-to-Pay and Geographic Scale", Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, pp.
  • Chang, Hung-Hao, Ashok K. Mishra, Michael Livingston, "Agricultural Policy and Its Impact on Fuel Usage: Empirical Evidence from Farm Household Analysis", Applied Energy, Vol. 88, pp. 348-353
  • Covey, T., "Bird Flu Impacts Farm Income", U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Covey, T., Ahearn, M., Erickson, K., Harris, M., Ifft, J., Williams, R., Weber, J., Park, T., McGath, C., Vogel, S., Agricultural Income and Finance Report, 2011, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Covey, T., Ahearn, M., Johnson, J., Jones, C., Strickland, R., Morehart, M., Traub, L., Vogel, S., McGath, C., Brown, D., Williams, R., Stenberg, P., Green, R., Towe, C., Erickson, K., Harris, M., 2007, Agricultural Income and Finance Outlook, U.S. Department of Agriculture, December. pp.
  • Covey, T., Green, R., Johnson, J., Jones, C., Morehart, M., Williams, R., McGath, C., Mishra, A., Strickland, R., 2005, Agricultural Income and Finance Outlook, Agricultural Economic Report, Economic Research Service AIS-83, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November, 45 pp.
  • Covey, T., Johnson, J., Morehart, M., Ryan, J., McGath, C., Traub, L., Green, R., McBride, W., Hopkins, J., Strickland, R., Mishra, A., Durst, R., Williams, R., Erickson, K., Agricultural Income and Finance Outlook, 2004, U.S. Department of Agriculture, http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/so/view.asp?f=economics/ais-bb/, pp.
  • Covey, T., Tuszynski, C., "Bird flu payments decline sharply in 2016", U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • David Banker, "ARMS Processing and Analysis", paper presented at FAO Regional Consultation on Statistics for Farmer Income, Bangkok, Thailand, pp.
  • Dubman, R., Erickson, K., Korb, P., Paul Murray and Brian Biggs, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Canada Quebec, "Changes in the Composition and Distribution of Canadian and US Farm and Nonfarm Income: AAEA/CAES meetings, Montreal 2003", pp.
  • Durst, R., 2005, An Analysis of the Potential for a National Level Farm Savings Account Program Using Federal Income Tax Data, Report for Risk Management Agency(RMA) under research partnership agreement, June, 32 pp.
  • El-Osta, H., "An Index of Socio-Economic Well-Being of U.S. Farm Households", Modern Economy, Vol. 5, Issue 12, pp. 1120-1131
  • El-Osta, H., "Assessing the Impact of Health Insurance and other Socioeconomic Factors on the Inequality in Health Care Expenditures among", pp.
  • Erickson, K., Ball, E., Mishra, A., Charles B. Moss (lead author), Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, "A Translog Cost Function Analysis of U.S. Agriculture: A Dynamic Specification" AAEA selected paper, July 2003", pp.
  • El-Osta, H., Mishra, A., Morehart, M., "Composite Measure of Economic Well-Being", Amber Waves, Vol. 3, Issue 4, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • El-Osta, H., Mishra, A., Morehart, M., Composite Measure of Economic Well-Being, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
  • El-Osta, H., Mishra, A., Morehart, M., Factors Contributing to the Economic Well-Being of Farm Households, Agricultural Economic Report, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Erickson, K., Ball, E., Mishra, A., Charles Moss, "Factors That Affect Relative Profitability Among Production Regions", paper selected for AAEA Annual Mtgs, Montreal, Canada, July 27, 2003.
  • Erickson, K., Ball, E., Nehring, R., Charles B. Moss, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, "A Translog Cost Function Analysis of U.S. Agriculture: 1948-1999" published abstract in JAAE Dec. 2004", pp.
  • Erickson, K., Ball, E., Nehring, R., Charles Moss, "A Translog Cost Function Analysis of U.S. Agriculture: 1948-1999", speech to WAEA Mtgs and Website, Denver, CO, July 11, 2003. pp.
  • Erickson, K., Korb, P., Steven Blank, University of California-Davis, 2005, Profit Patterns, Convergence of Net Cash Returns and the Well-Being of Farm Operator Households (published abstract), Miscellaneous Publication, Western Agricultural Economics Association, U.S. Department of Agriculture, December, pp.
  • Erickson, K., McGath, C., Green, R., McElroy, R., McBride, W., 2002, Agricultural Income and Finance Outlook, AIS-79, U.S. Department of Agriculture, September. 70 pp.
  • Erickson, K., Mishra, A., Blank, S., Moss, C., ""Regional Changes in the Distribution of Net Value Added in U.S. Agriculture, 1960-2002"", Paper presented at Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 3, 2004. 21 pp.
  • Erickson, K., Nehring, R., Steven C. Blank, University of California-Davis and Charles B. Moss, University of Florida-Gainesville, 2004, 244, Miscellaneous Publication, U.S. Department of Agriculture, August, 22 pp.
  • Erickson, K., Ryan, J., "Developing a Sources and Uses of Funds Account for the U.S. Farm Sector", Selected paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Orlanda, FL, January 14, 2002. 15 pp.
  • Green, R., McElroy, R., Strickland, R., McBride, W., Erickson, K., McGath, C., Ryan, J., 2001, Agricultural Income and Finance Outlook, AIS-77, U.S. Department of Agriculture, www.ers.usda.gov/briefing, September. pp.
  • Hans Andersson, Bharat Ramaswami, Charles B. Moss, Kenneth Erickson, Charles Hallahan, and Richard Nehring, ""Off-farm Income and Risky Investments: What Happens to Farm and Nonfarm Assets?"", selected paper presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, pp.
  • Harris, M., Dillard, J., Erickson, K., Hallahan, C., "Changes in Debt Patterns and Financial Structure of Farm Businesses: A Double Hurdle Approach", AAEA Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisc, pp.
  • Harris, M., Erickson, K., Johnson, J., Morehart, M., Strickland, R., Covey, T., McGath, C., Ahearn, M., Parker, T., Vogel, S., Williams, R., Dubman, R., 2009, Agricultural Income and Finance Report, 2009, U.S. Department of Agriculture, December. pp.
  • Hisham S. El-Osta, Ashok K. Mishra, and Mitchell J. Morehart, 2007, "Determinants of Economic Well-Being Among U.S. Farm Operator Households", Agricultural Economics, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 291-304
  • Hopkins, J., Morehart, M., "Comparing Income and Wealth of Farm Households, The Self Employed, and the Rest of the US", Amber Waves, February 2004, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Ifft, J., Lu, L., "Credit Constraints and Federal Crop Insurance", paper presented at NAREA Annual Meeting, Morgantown, WV, pp.
  • Johnson, J., "A Typology for U.S. Farms From National Survey Data", April 4, 2002. 19 pp.
  • Johnson, J., Morehart, M., Strickland, R., Gibbs, R., Ahearn, M., Covey, T., Bagi, F., Brown, D., McGath, C., Vogel, S., Williams, R., Dillard, J., Agricultural Income and Finance Report, 2009, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Johnson, J., Strickland, R., Green, R., Covey, T., Traub, L., McGath, C., Erickson, K., 2003, Collaboration with OECD's Statistics Directorate: FY-2004, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November.
  • Jones, C., "Assessing Farm and All US Household Well-Being using USDA ARMS and BLS CE Surveys", Presentation for BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey Data Users' Needs Forum, Washington DC, June 21, 2010. pp.
  • Jones, C., 2007, "A joint income-wealth measure of farm household well-being", Amber Waves, U.S. Department of Agriculture, June, pp.
  • Kenneth Erickson, Dawn Thilmany, Penelope Korb, Steven Davies, Philip Watson, Dawn Thilmany, Kenneth Krupa, Marlow Vesterby, "Symposium, Western Agricultural Economics Assoc., County-level Analysis of Farm Operator Household Financial Performance: Findings from the Cenus of Agriculture", WAEA annual meetings annual meetings July 2005, San Francisco, CA, pp.
  • Kenneth Erickson, Dawn Thilmany, Penelope Korb, Steven Davies, Philip Watson, Dawn Thilmany, Kenneth Krupa, Marlow Vesterby, 2005, County-level Analysis of Farm Operator Household Financial Performance: Findings from the Census of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication, Western Agricultural Economics Association, JARE, U.S. Department of Agriculture, December, 1 pp.
  • Kenneth Erickson, Dawn Thilmany, Penelope Korb, Steven Davies, Philip Watson, Dawn Thilmany, Kenneth Krupa, Marlow Vesterby, County-level Analysis of Farm Operator Household Financial Performance: Findings from the Census of Ag., published abstract, Miscellaneous Publication, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Kenneth Krupa, Marlow Vesterby, and Kenneth Erickson, 2005, Hidden Truths About Farm Dynamics and Economic Well-Being (published abstract), Miscellaneous Publication, Western Agricultural Economics Association, U.S. Department of Agriculture, December, pp.
  • Kenneth Erickson, J. Michael Harris, Charles Hallahan, "Analyzing and Predicting Farm Financial Stress by Farm Type, Size, and Region: A Categorical Multinomial Logit Approach", AAEA Annual Meeting selected paper presentation, Pittsburgh, PA, pp.
  • Kenneth Erickson, Steven C. Blank, and Penni Korb, "County-level Analysis of Farm Operator Household Financial Performance from the Census of Agriculture", WAEA annual meetings, San Francisco, CA, July 8, 2005. pp.
  • Kenneth Krupa, Marlow Vesterby, and Kenneth Erickson, ""Farm Jobs, Proprietors, and Earnings in 54 Fast Growth Counties" aka "Hidden Truths about Farm Dynamics & Econ. Well-Being"", WAEA annual meetings, San Francisco, CA, December 1, 2005. 1 pp.
  • Key, N., "Beginning farmers who sell directly to consumers are more likely to remain in business", Amber Waves, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Key, N., Lubowski, R., Roberts, M., "Decoupling Agricultural Payments from Production: Correcting a Distortion?", paper presented at the AAEA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August 1, 2004. 24 pp.
  • Key, N., Roberts, M., "Concentration of Agricultural Production Is Growing Faster in Regions with High Government Payments per Acre", U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • King, R.P., Hand, M.S., DiGiacomo, G., Clancy, K., Gomez, M., Hardesty, S.D., Lev, L., McLaughlin, E.W., 2010, Comparing the Structure, Size, and Performance of Local and Mainstream Food Supply Chains, Economic Research Report, ERR-99, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, June, 81 pp.
  • Korb, P., Erickson, K., Steven C. Blank, UC-Davis, "Profit Patterns in the U.S. and the West, 1992 and 1997: What County-Level Data Reveal", Conference Organized by ERS, Presented paper (and to appear on AgEconLit), WAEA, Honolulu, Hawaii,
  • Kuhns, R., "ARMS School - Section J & K: Farm Assets and Debt Presentation", NASS Regional Office staff, St. Louis, Missouri, January 14, 2014. 23 pp.
  • Kuhns, R., "Comparing the Forecast Accuracy of Several Common Farm Land Forecast Models", Conference Paper for Federal Forecaster's Conference, Washington, DC, June 1, 2014. pp.
  • Kuhns, R., "Comparing the Forecast Accuracy of Several Common Farm Land Forecast Models", Presentation at Federal Forecaster's Conference, Washington, DC, April 24, 2014. pp.
  • Kuhns, R., Patrick, K., "2016 Outlook for the Farm Economy", pp.
  • L.W. Tauer, and A.K. Mishra, 2006, "Dairy Farm Cost Efficiency", Journal of Dairy Science, Vol. 89, No, 12, pp. 4937-4943
  • Loren W. Tauer, and Ashok K. Mishra, 2006, "Can the small dairy farm remain competitive in U.S. agriculture", Food Policy, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 458-468
  • Low, Sarah A., "Defining and Measuring 'Local Foods' for Reserach: Implications for Local Economic Impact Analysis and the Food Safety Modernization Act", paper presentation at North American Regional Science Council meeting, Bethesda, MD, November 14, 2014. pp.
  • Low, Sarah A., "Trends in U.S. Local and Regional Food Systems", briefing for U/S Woteki, January 28, 2015.
  • Low, Sarah A., Agnes Perez, Alex Melton, "Defining and Measuring 'Local Foods' for Reserach: Implications for Local Economic Impact Analysis and the Food Safety Modernization Act", presentation at Ag., Food, and Human Values Society meeting on local foods, Burlington, VT, pp.
  • MacDonald, J., Hoppe, R., Banker, D., "Growing Farm Size and the Distribution of Commodity Program Payments", Amber Waves, Vol. 3, Issue 1, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp. 10-11
  • Mary Ahearn, and Ashok Mishra, 2009, "Access of Farm Households to Health Care", Choices, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp.
  • Mary Ahearn, David Banker, Dawn Marie Clay, and Daniel Milkove, "Comparative Survey Imputation Methods for Farm Household Income", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Forthcoming, pp.
  • McElroy, R., Agricultural Income and Finance Situation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • McGath, C., "ARMS III - Workshop 2010; Section F: Operating & Capital Expenditures", NASS Field Office ARMS enumerators, Louisville, KY, January 12, 2010. pp.
  • Payne, T., Christensen, L., Clayton, C., ARMS CD, pp.
  • Payne, T., Fernandez-Cornejo, J., "ARMS-Treasure Trove of Data", pp.
  • Payne, T., Fernandez-Cornejo, J., ARMS - fulfilling your data needs, Workshop/Seminar, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
  • Payne, T., "ARMS: A Treasure Trove of Data", Speech at AAEA, Long Beach, CA, July 26, 2006. pp.
  • Penelope Korb, Steven C. Blank, and Kenneth Erickson, ""Profit Patterns in the U.s. and Across Regions, 1992 and 1997: What County-Level Data Reveal"", Western Agricultural Economics Association, San Francisco, CA, December 1, 2005. 1 pp.
  • Payne, T., ARMS- A Treasure Trove of Data, Miscellaneous Publication, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Payne, T., ARMS, Workshop/Seminar, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
  • Perry, J., "Data are Essential to Research", NASS Leadership Training session, Jacksonville, FL, October 16, 2007. pp.
  • Prager, D., "Assessing Household Income Volatility in U.S. Farm Households", pp.
  • Ralston, Katherine, Elizabeth Beaulieu, Jeffrey Hyman, Matthew Benson, Michael Smith, Daily Access to Local Foods for School Meals: Which Schools Make the Grade?, Economic Information Bulletin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
  • Shellye Clark, "Census of Agriculture & ARMS: Analysis of Farm Business and Household Participation in Local Food Economies", Southern Regional Science Association, ERS special session on local foods research, Arlington, VA, pp.
  • Roberts, M., Key, N., "Agricultural Payments and Land Concentration: A Semi-parametric Spatial Regression Analysis", seminar presentation to Ag. Econ. Dept. at UC Davis, Davis, California, November 16, 2006. pp.
  • Ryan, J., Johnson, J., Agricultural Resource Management Study, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
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