THE FUTURE OF ENERGY DEMAND

Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

ECONOMIC MODELING OF FARM PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION DECISIONS IN RESPONSE TO ALTERNATIVE RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES

Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,

One Way to Beat the Surplus Problem

A land retirement program offers one positive way of handling the surplus problem. And agricultural economists at Iowa State have come up with some estimates of the costs and effectiveness of such a program

Effect of feed-grain output controls on resource uses and values in northern and southern Iowa

The existence of a problematic situation in American agriculture is widely recognized. By most standards, incomes of farmers are low in comparison with incomes in the nonfarm sector of the economy. The unfavorable income position of farmers has developed during a period of rapidly rising farm productivity. Efforts to improve farmers\u27 incomes have centered on supporting farm product prices and controlling production. For a few relatively minor commodities, such as tobacco, production control has been restrictive enough to successfully support prices and producers\u27 incomes without accumulating surpluses. For major commodities, such as wheat and feed grains, however, control programs have been less successful. Surpluses have accumulated, and price goals have not been met. Improved policies are needed for commodities where income and surplus problems persist

A Look at the Conservation Reserve

Last fall, farmers voted in a new price-support program for corn with flexible price supports and unrestricted acreage. The companion program, the conservation reserve, assumes new importance and may help control acreage

Direct Supply Control: What Effects on Iowa Farms?

Researchers study effects of reducing concentrate output 20 percent through direct supply control (marketing quotes) on farm labor, land, capital and net farm income under 19 different farm siutations in Iowa

Structural studies on the antibiotics vancomycin, ristocetin A and triostin A

Digitisation of this thesis was sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin