Targeting Soil conservation programs to specific problem areas Implies that individual landowners are targeted for program participation A better understanding of how the characteristics of individual landowners and their farm operations influence conservation investments can help policymakers...

In 2008, wheat futures prices spiked and then crashed along with prices for other agricultural and nonagricultural commodities. Market observers offered several theories to explain this common movement, or comovement, in prices, and have proposed policies to address the perceived problem of...