The 2002 Farm Bill: Background Publications

USDA Policy Principles

• Food and Agricultural Policy: Taking Stock for a New Century

Farm-Sector Impacts

• The 2002 Farm Act: Provisions and Implications for Commodity Markets
• Decoupled Payments: Household Income Transfers in Contemporary U.S. Agriculture
• Decoupled Payments in a Changing Policy Setting
• Analysis of the U.S. Commodity Loan Program with Marketing Loan Provisions
• Higher Cropland Values from Farm Program Payments: Who gains?
• U.S. Farm Program Benefits: Links to Planting Decisions and Agricultural Markets
• Using Farm-Sector Income as a Policy Benchmark
• A Safety Net for Farm Households
• A Fair Income for Farmers
• Peanut Consumption Rebounding Amidst Market Uncertainties
• Will the Farm Act Get Pulses Racing?
• Weak Prices Test U.S. Sugar Policy
• Federal Milk Marketing Orders: Consolidation and Reform
• Milk Pricing in the United States
• Government Payments and the Farm Sector
• ERS Farm Typology for a Diverse Agricultural Sector
• CCC Net Outlays by Commodity and Function

Conservation

• Agri-Environmental Policy at the Crossroads: Guideposts on a Changing Landscape
• Agri-Environmental Payments: Rewarding Farmers for Environmental Performance
• USDA Conservation Programs: A Look at the Record
• Environmental Payments to Farmers: Issues of Program Design
• Environmental Policy and the WTO: Unresolved Questions
• Confined Animal Production and Manure Nutrients
• Farmland Protection Programs: What Does the Public Want?
• Wetlands and Agriculture: Private Interests and Public Benefits
• Development at the Urban Fringe and Beyond: Impacts on Agriculture and Rural Land
• Economic Valuation of Environmental Benefits and the Targeting of Conservation Programs: The Case of the CRP
• Domestic Conservation and Environmental Policies Affecting Agriculture

Trade

• Agricultural Policy Reform in the WTO—The Road Ahead
• Aligning U.S. Farm Policy with World Trade Commitments
• U.S. WTO Domestic Support Reduction Commitments and Notifications

Nutrition

• Welfare Reform and Food Assistance
• The Changing Food Assistance Landscape: The Food Stamp Program in a Post-Welfare Reform Environment
• Understanding the Food Stamp Benefit Formula: A Tool for Measuring the Component Effects

Credit

• Credit in Rural America
• Agricultural Income and Finance

Farms and the Rural Economy

• Farming's Role in the Rural Economy
• Rural America at the Turn of the Century: One Analyst’s Perspective
• Structural and Financial Characteristics of U.S. Farms: 2001 Family Farm Report
• America's Diverse Family Farms: Assorted Sizes, Types, and Situations
• How Important Are Farm Payments to the Rural Economy?
• Impact of Government Payments to Farm Varies by Level of Profitability and Household Income
• Falling Prices and National Farm Policy: The Northern Great Plains
• Farms, the Internet, and E-Commerce: Adoption and Implications
• Rural America, May 2001

Agricultural Research

• Agricultural Research and Development: Public and Private Investments Under Alternative Markets and Institutions
• Economic Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology
• Biotechnology Research: Weighing the Options for a New Public-Private Balance
• Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 2002—Agricultural Research and Development
• Economic Implications of the Methyl Bromide Phaseout

Organic Agriculture

• U.S. Organic Farming Emerges in the 1990s: Adoption of Certified Systems

Country of Origin Labeling

• Economics of Food Labeling
• Traceability for Food Marketing and Food Safety: What's the Next Step?