Issues
Issue Reports
Farm Foundation Issue Reports are a vehicle for discussion and debate of the diverse challenges facing food, agriculture and rural America today. Farm Foundation programs and projects are the source of materials discussed in Issue Reports.
May 2020 – Understanding Blockchain and Agriculture
November 2019 – The New Generation of Farmers and Ranchers Infusing U.S. Agriculture
September 2019 – Understanding the Priorities, Focuses and Potential Implications of Conservation Agriculture
March 2019 – Agriculture and the Judicial Branch: The Third Leg of Governance
September 2018 – Economic Returns to Rural Infrastructure Investment: The Economically-Efficient Composition of Rural Infrastructure Investment
September 2018 – Economic Returns to Rural Infrastructure Investment: Theory and Practice of Prioritizing Infrastructure Projects
September 2018 – Economic Returns to Rural Infrastructure Investment: Productivity and Quality-of-Life Benefits to Rural Infrastructure
September 2018 – Economic Returns to Rural Infrastructure Investment: Local Perspectives on Rank and Selection of Infrastructure Projects
September 2018 – Economic Returns to Rural Infrastructure Investment: Impacts of USDA Broadband Loan & Grant Programs: Moving Toward Estimating Rate of Return
September 2018 – Economic Returns to Rural Infrastructure Investment: Economic Impacts, Costs and Benefits of Infrastructure Investment–Review of the Literature
- September 2017 – Reconciling Farm Commodity Policy
- September 2017 – Farmland Ownership: Trends and Future Implication
- September 2011 – Transparency of Nontariff Measures in Food and Agricultural Trade
- July 2011 What’s Driving Food Prices in 2011?
- September 2009 – Agriculture Research and Productivity for the Future
- March 2009 – What’s Driving Food Prices? March 2009 Update
- December 2008 – The 30-Year Challenge: Agriculture’s Strategic Role in Feeding and Fueling a Growing World
- July 2008 – What’s Driving Food Prices?
- March 2008 – Second Decade of Crop Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges in Crop Biotechnology
- March 2008 – Trade and Domestic Farm Policy
- August 2007– Food Product Composition, Consumer Health and Public Policy
- May 2007 – Funding Research and Extension
- January 2007– Immigration Reform, Agriculture and Rural Communities
- December 2006– University-Industry Relationships in Agricultural Biotechnology Research
- September 2005– Agriculture, Forestry and Greenhouse Gases
- August 2005 – Economics of Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies
- January 2005 – Immigrants Change the Face of Rural America
- November 2004– North American Market Integration
- April 2004– Farmland Preservation
- May 2004 – Production Contracts