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Rising U.S. Farm Wages
In a recent study, my coauthors and I find that real U.S. farm wages would have…
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China is still important to Montana and U.S. agriculture
With the ongoing saga regarding the China-US trade dispute, it’s easy to get consumed with…
Changing Livestock Operation Sizes
In my last post, I took a first look at the 2017 Census of Ag…
Montana and the 2018 farm bill
Well, it’s farm bill time again. While legislation was passed late last year, many of…
How Much do Governments Subsidize Fossil Fuels?
Earlier this month the Billings Gazette reported that the US Department Energy (DOE), at the…
2019 Edition: Consequences of Using Domestic Policies to Offset Retaliatory Tariff Losses to US Farmers
In July 2018, I wrote a post about the consequences of using the Marketing Facilitation…
U.S. Beef Exports to the EU Could More Than Double
The United States produces, arguably, some of the highest quality beef in the world. Countries…
A Glance at the Rural Economy
Nonmetro population grew in 2016-17 for the first time in a decade. Declining rural unemployment,…
Value-Added and Direct-to-Consumer Sales: Montana Highlights from the 2017 Agricultural Census
The results of the 2017 USDA Ag Census were released last week. (Both Anton and…
Census of Agriculture: Information on Everything Agriculture
Once every five years the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service conducts the Census of Agriculture. …