Staff Papers

Governments and donors frequently subsidize crop insurance to mitigate agricultural risks from weather and pests. This approach is costly, with taxpayers funding signific [...]

This report is a summary of the data contained on the farmland sales portion of the Minnesota Land Economics (MLE) web site (http://landeconomics.umn.edu ) as of February [...]

Assigning the farmer versus breeder shares of the economic value derived from improved crop varieties remains a contentious issue, with real world food security, poverty [...]

This paper investigates the development-environment tradeoff from cultivating cash crops. We classify cashew plantations between 2015-2021 across Benin, one of West Afric [...]

Has the golden age of U.S. agricultural productivity growth ended? We analyze the detailed patterns of productivity growth spanning a century of profound changes in Ameri [...]

The 2023 Annual Report of the Southwest Minnesota Farm Business Management Associaton includes 116 member farms. Highlights of association financial results for 2023.

This report is a summary of the data contained on the farmland sales portion of the Minnesota Land Economics (MLE) web site (http://landeconomics.umn.edu ) as of February [...]

Many researchers, policy makers and food activists view Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) as levers for improving farm income and the sustainability of farming systems. We [...]

Of the 118 farms in the Southwest Association, the data for 111 farms are included in this report. The rest were omitted because the records were incomplete at the time o [...]