(l to r): Daniel Hellerstein, David McGranahan, Michael Roberts, Patrick Sullivan, Stephen Vogel, Ruben Lubowski

(l to r): Noel Gollehon, Jean Agapoff, Marc Ribaudo, Vince Breneman, Marcel Aillery, and Rob Johansson; Not shown: Lee Christensen, Jonathan Kaplan, and Mark Peters

In response to a request from Congress, this team explored the economic impacts of USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program. Their findings were published in The Conservation Reserve Program: Economic Implications for Rural America.

Profiled in Amber Waves in September 2004, this team has conducted innovative and timely analysis of the policy options associated with animal waste management in such reports as:

• Manure Management for Water Quality: Costs to Animal Feeding Operations of Applying Manure Nutrients to Land
  
• Confined Animal Production and Manure Nutrients

(l to r): Biing-Hwan Lin, Dale Simms, Joanne Guthrie, Mark Denbaly, Kathleen Kassel, Phillip Kaufman, Cynthia Ray, Tom McDonald, Shashunga Clayton, and Hayden Stewart. Not shown: Jane Reed.

(l to r): Dean Jolliffe, Karen Hamrick, Robert Gibbs, and Victor B. Phillips, Jr.

In preparation for USDA’s October 2004 Obesity Conference, this team produced an information kit containing a series of research briefs on the economic, social, and behavioral factors influencing consumers' fruit and vegetable choices.

This team produced a collection of concise brochures highlighting the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural America.

(l to r): Mary Maher, Mitch Morehart, and Philip Friend

(l to r): Victor B. Phillips, Jr., Curtia Taylor, Wynnice Pointer-Napper, Susan DeGeorge, Anne Pearl, and Cynthia Ray

Leading an effort that involved many ERS staffers, this team delivered a web-based database tool through which users can access a wealth of data collected in USDA’s annual Agricultural Resource Management Survey.

Through their design of the layout of Amber Waves, ERS’s flagship publication, this team makes ERS research more accessible to readers through eye-catching, communicative design.