The report documents the creation of estimates for cropland cash rental rates in the Upper Mississippi River Basin in 1997. Although the basic data come from disparate sources, we employ a unifying estimation procedure based on the presumption that the cropland cash rental rate is an increasing...

The use of antibiotics poses an impure public goods problem. Their utilization jointly generates a (positive) private characteristic, that is, the health of the individual who consumes the drug, and a (negative) public characteristic, that is, the reduction in susceptibility that renders the...

The tighter linkages between energy and crop markets due to recent climate and energy legislation in the US have large potential environmental impacts beyond carbon sequestration and climate mitigation. These range from effects on water quality and quantity, soil erosion, habitat and...