Fifty years ago, in 1974, the definition of a U.S. farm for the purposes of collecting data in the Census of Agriculture, was set at $1,000 of farm...Read More
Abraham Lincoln commissioned the first census of farm by the Department of Agriculture 180 years ago. Some of the data categories have not changed since then, like specifying...Read More
From the archives of fun papers I have written, this one from when I was a manure economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2001. We had...Read More
There was a time, not so long ago, when agribusiness referred to a farm input-providing business. This was readily translated into everything involving goods and services that revolved...Read More
What? This is what biomass systems economists do. We add value to goods and services in value attributes that go beyond having a price in dollars. Most of...Read More
In 2016, I was invited to build a BS in agribusiness in a private, 4-year, business school (non-ag). I had 4 degrees in agriculture (agronomy (BS), ag mechanization...Read More
There are lots of ways to grow crops and livestock. There are farms that are very profitable and farms that are more of a heritage or lifestyle than...Read More
What is a farm? This question is similar to defining, ‘what is rich?’ Everyone asked will have a different answer. About 20 years ago, the USDA, Economic Research...Read More