At the request of Senator Richard Lugar, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, FAPRI has analyzed impacts of two alternative risk management proposals. The first proposal is the Farmers' Risk Management Act of 1999...

On March 4, 2002, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) released a comparative study of the impacts of the alternative farm bills proposed by the U.S. House and Senate. During briefings to staff of ...

At the request of Senator Grassley, this note presents additional information about the impact of stricter payment limits.

The Mississippi River is the most critical artery of the inland waterway system, supporting between 50 and 60 percent of total U.S. corn exports and 30 to 45 percent of total U.S. soybean exports. In calendar year 2002, ...

Economics, Extension, and Rural Development wished to build agricultural sector modeling capacity similar to that employed for many years by the Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute (FAPRI). The models are used to provide projections of the main...

At the request of several members of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate, FAPRI has continued to analyze the impacts of two alternative risk management proposals. The proposals are the Farmers' Risk Management Act...

Discusses the formulation of assumptions pertaining to yield growth in the crop sector used in developing market projections.

This paper discusses the implications of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 for U.S. agriculture and its subsequent impact on world agricultural prices and world trade....

Point estimates of agricultural and trade policy impacts often paint an incomplete or even misleading picture. For many purposes it is important to estimate a distribution of outcomes. Stochastic modeling can be especially ...

This paper analyzes the food price surge of 2005 to 2008 in order to better understand the factors causing higher and more volatile food prices during this period, to ascertain the relative importance and possible persistence of the different...

Final Report for EPA Grant CG000225. For the last decade the Missouri Watershed Water Quality Initiative project has assessed alternative programs and practices that protect the common good of natural resource use while ...

This study uses a stochastic model to analyze the impact of not extending the ethanol tax credit, the ethanol import tariff, or the $1.00 per gallon biodiesel tax credit on the biofuels and agricultural commodity markets.

Analysis requested by Senator Saxby Chambliss of the October 2005 U.S. WTO proposal.

In the short history of the FAPRI-Ireland Partnership there has been no shortage of policy proposals to analyse. As part of the Agenda 2000 process the CAP is undergoing significant reform following the agreement made at the European Council...

Briefing paper requested by Senator Bond detailing the conclusions from the Mississippi River research to date....

This report presents a summary of ten-year baseline projections for U.S. agricultural markets providing information about the outlook for agricultural markets, farm program spending, farm income, and a variety of other indicators.

In response to Congressional requests, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) has conducted a comparative analysis of the farm bills approved by the House of Representatives in October 2001 and the ...

Analysis of barley issues prepared in response to a request from Senators Crapo, Conrad, Dorgan, and Craig and Representatives Simpson, Otter, and Pomeroy.

Testimony given before the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at the request of committee chair, Representative Gutknecht.

This report describes the water quality data and the model that were used to develop the bacteria total maximum daily load of the Little Sac River in Greene and Polk counties. It is the final TMDL report sent to EPA by the ...