The Department of Agricultural Economics aims to improve decision-making by public officials, private producers and agribusinesses by giving them economics information, insights, analytical tools, and skills that are not otherwise available. Our faculty and staff have expertise that is essential in solving a myriad of issues, from resource allocation to rural development. Our extension work across Nebraska equips producers and businesses with tools and analysis to better manage operations and maximize profitability.

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2023

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Integrated vs. Specialized Farming Systems for Sustainable Food Production: Comparative Analysis of Systems’ Technical Efficiency in Nebraska, Maroua Afi and Jay Parsons

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Evaluating the relative impact of multiple healthy food choice interventions on choice process variables and choices, Christopher Gustafson

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The role of behavioural factors and opportunity costs in farmers' participation in voluntary agri-environmental schemes: A systematic review, Sergei Schaub, Jaboury Ghazoul, Robert Huber, Wei Zhang, Adelaide Sander, Charles Rees, Simanti Banerjee, and Robert Finger

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Food Fraud: A persistent problem that demands a comprehensive approach, Amalia Yiannaka

2022

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Trade Agreements in the Last 20 Years: Retrospect and Prospect for Agriculture / Les accords commerciaux au cours des 20 dernières années : rétrospective et perspectives pour l’agriculture / Handelsabkommen in den letzten 20 Jahren: Rückblick und Ausblick für die Landwirtschaft, John C. Beghin and Jill O’Donnell

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A review of registrations for over-the-top dicamba products and liability for state governments for appropriating neighbors’ right to exclude, Terence J. Centner

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How Do Consumers’ Beliefs About Product Price, Taste, and Health Affect Attention to Health-Differentiated Product-Sets?, Henriette Gitungwa and Christopher R. Gustafson

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Active Consideration of Future Health Can Be Prompted by Simple Health Messages and Improves Nutritional Quality of Food Choices, Christopher R. Gustafson

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Consideration of Nutrients of Public Health Concern Highlighted in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025 among a Large Sample of US Primary Shoppers, Christopher Gustafson and Devin Rose

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US Consumer Identification of the Health Benefits of Dietary Fiber and Consideration of Fiber When Making Food Choices, Christopher Gustafson and Devin J. Rose

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The Economics of a “portion size reduction” policy, Hanin Hosni and Konstantinos Giannakas

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Simulated dataset of corn response to nitrogen over thousands of fields and multiple years in Illinois, German Mandrini, Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Cameron M. Pittelkow, Taro Mieno, and Nicolas F. Martin

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New plant engineering techniques, R&D investment and international trade, Stéphan Marette, Anne-Célia Disdier, Anastasia Bodnar, and John C. Beghin

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Causes and consequences of fake transparency/excess information in food claims, Susweta Ray and Konstantinos Giannakas

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Comparative Performance of Cooperative Equity Retirement Plans, Jeffrey S. Royer

2021

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Relative valuation of food and non-food risks with a comparison to actuarial values: A best–worst approach, Kayode Ajewole, Elliott James Dennis, Ted C. Schroeder, and Jason Bergtold

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Consumer Valuation of and Attitudes towards Novel Foods Produced with New Plant Engineering Techniques: A Review, John C. Beghin and Christopher Gustafson

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Pesticide Usage Is Compromising People’s Health in the United States: Ideas for Reducing Damages, Terence J. Centner

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2021 Local Food Guide, Skylar Falter

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High BMI Predicts Attention to Less Healthy Product Sets: Can a Prompt Lead to Consideration of Healthier Sets of Products?, Christopher Gustafson, Kristina Arslain, and Devin Rose

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What determines the success and failure of environmental crowdfunding?, Takahiro Kubo, Diogo Veríssimo, Shinya Uryu, Taro Mieno, and Douglas MacMillan

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The role of premium subsidies in crop insurance, Charalampos Mavroutsikos, Konstantinos Giannakas, and Cory Walters

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The Relationship between Bodyweight Status and Weight Perception Explains Differences in Calories Ordered in a Food Choice Exercise, Jean-Claude Mbarushimana, Christopher Gustafson, Henriette Gitungwa, and Eliana Zeballos

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Does engagement improve groundwater management?, Felipe de Figueiredo Silva, Richard K. Perrin, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, and Mark E. Burbach

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An expected value of sample information (EVSI) approach for estimating the payoff from a variable rate technology., Pedro Vertino de Queiroz, Richard Perrin, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, and David S. Bullock

2020

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Determinants of gluten-free diet adoption among individuals without Celiac disease or non-Celiac gluten sensitivity, Kristina Arslain, Christopher Gustafson, Pratiksha Baishya, and Devin Rose

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Is the world converging to a ‘Western diet’?, Azzeddine Azzam

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The influence of crop insurance agents on coverage choices: The role of agent competition, Nathan Delay, Hayley Chouinard, Cory Walters, and Philip Wandschneider

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Consumer Reactions to E. Coli and Antibiotic Residue Recalls: Utility Maximization vs. Regret Minimization, Elliott James Dennis, Kayode Ajewole, Jason S. Bergtold, and Ted C. Schroeder

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Net Return Distributions When Metaphylaxis Is Used to Control Bovine Respiratory Disease in High Health-Risk Cattle, Elliott James Dennis, Ted C. Schroeder, and David G. Renter

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The effect of presenting relative calorie information on calories ordered, Christopher Gustafson and Eliana Zeballos

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The potential cost of methane and nitrous oxide emissions regulation in U.S. agriculture, Tshepelayi Kabata, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, and Richard Perrin

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Food Policy: Stability, Sustainability, and Safety, Gary D. Lynne

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Health Policy: Universal Pre-existing Conditions, Gary D. Lynne

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Introduction to Metaeconomics, Gary D. Lynne

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Tax Policy: Pay the Price, Gary D. Lynne

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The Increasing Opportunity Cost of Sequestering CO2 in the Brazilian Amazon Forest., Felipe de Figueiredo Silva, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard Perrin, and Marcelo J. Braga

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The 2017 Economic Impact of the Nebraska Agricultural Production Complex, Eric Thompson, Bradley Lubben, and Jeff Stokes

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A half century of yield growth along the forty-first parallel of the Great Plains: factor intensification, irrigation, weather, and technical change., Federico J. Trindade, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, and Richard Perrin

2019

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Labeling food safety attributes: to inform or not to inform?, Kofi Britwum and Amalia Yiannaka

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Engagement to Enhance Community: An Example of Extension’s Land-Grant Mission in Action, Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel, Jason L. Weigle, and Jennifer Hawkins

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The opportunity cost of preserving the Brazilian Amazon forest., Felipe de Figueiredo Silva, Richard Perrin, and Lilyan E. Fulginiti

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WHAT IS THE USE VALUE OF IRRIGATION WATER FROM THE HIGH PLAINS AQUIFER?, Federico García Suárez, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, and Richard K. Perrin

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Healthy Food Labels Tailored to a High-Risk, Minority Population More Effectively Promote Healthy Choices than Generic Labels, Christopher R. Gustafson and Michael R. Prate

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Cognitive aids and food choice: Real-time calorie counters reduce calories ordered and correct biases in calorie estimates, Christopher Gustafson and Eliana Zeballos

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Wildlife viewing: The impact of money-back guarantees, Takahiro Kubo, Taro Mieno, and Koichi Kuriyama

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Disease Management and Estimated Effects on DON (Deoxynivalenol) Contamination in Fusarium Infested Barley, Gregory McKee, Christina Cowger, Ruth Dill-Macky, Andrew Friskop, Pravin Gautam, Joel Ransom, and William Wilson

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The Effects of Irrigation and Climate on the High Plains Aquifer: A County-Level Econometric Analysis, Felipe de F. Silva, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin, and Karina Schoengold

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The Cost of Forest Preservation in the Brazilian Amazon: The “Arc of Deforestation”, Felipe de Figueiredo Silva, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, and Richard Perrin

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Nebraska’s Natural Resource District System: Collaborative Approaches to Adaptive Groundwater Quality Governance, Gregory N. Sixt, Laurens Klerkx, J. David Aiken, and Timothy S. Griffin

2018

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New Insights on Hedge Ratios in the Presence of Stochastic Transaction Costs, Elisson Andrade, Fabio Mattos, and Roberto Arruda de Souza Lima

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Value of Arrival Metaphylaxis in U.S. Cattle Industry, Elliott James Dennis, Ted C. Schroeder, David G. Renter, and Dustin L. Pendell

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Retail-based healthy food point-of-decision prompts (PDPs) increase healthy food choices in a rural, low-income, minority community, Christopher Gustafson, Rachel Kent, and Michael R. Prate Jr.

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The effect of ingredient-specific calorie information on calories ordered, Christopher R. Gustafson and Eliana Zeballos

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NEBRASKA FARM REAL ESTATE MARKET HIGHLIGHTS 2017-2018, Jim Jansen and Jeffrey Stokes

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The Expansion of the Brazilian Winter Corn Crop and Its Impact on Price Transmission, Fabio L. Mattos and Rodrigo Lanna Franco da Silveira

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Input Use Under Crop Insurance: The Role of Actual Production History, Taro Mieno, Cory Walters, and Lilyan E. Fulginiti

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A Re-Examination of Multistage Economies in Hog Farming, Joshua D. Parcel, John R. Schroeter, and Azzeddine M. Azzam

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Sweet Sorghum as Feedstock in Great Plains Corn Ethanol Plants: The Role of Biofuel Policy, Richard Perrin, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Subir Bairagi, and Ismail Dweikat

2017

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A Food Demand Framework for International Food Security Assessment, John Beghin, Birgit Meade, and Stacey Rosen

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Measurement of Commodity Price Risk: an overview of Brazilian agricultural markets, Daniel Henrique Dario Capitani and Fabio Mattos

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A Nonparametric Frontier Measure of Marketing Efficiency: An Illustration with Corn Ethanol Plants., Lilyan E. Fulginiti

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Hiring leaders: Inference and disagreement about the best person for the job, Konstantinos Giannakas, Murray Fulton, and Tala Awada

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How have retail sales patterns changed across rural America? A case study of Nebraska, Anil Giri and Bruce Johnson

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Impact of schoolchildren's involvement in the design process on the effectiveness of healthy food promotion materials, Christopher Gustafson, Bryce M. Abbey, and Kate A. Heelan

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Biomass from Marginal Cropland: Willingness of North Central US Farmers to Produce Switchgrass on Their Least Productive Fields, Richard K. Perrin, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, and Mustapha Alhassan

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Is Economic Inequality Really a Problem? A Review of the Arguments, E. Wesley F. Peterson

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The Role of Population in Economic Growth, E. Wesley F. Peterson

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Impacts of terrain attributes on economics and the environment: costs of reducing potential nitrogen pollution in wheat production, Cory Walters, C. Richard Shumway, and David R. Huggins

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Benefits of Public R&D in U.S. Agriculture: Spill-Ins, Extension and Roads, S L. Wang, A Plastina, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, and E. Ball

2016

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Economic feasibility of high Omega-3 soybean oil in mariculture diets: A sustainable replacement for fish oil., Subir Bairagi, Richard K. Perrin, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Tom Clemente, Cory Hungate, and G. Key

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Nebraska Historical Prices, Seasonal Price Patterns, and Futures Basis Beef Cattle, 2001–2015, Jacob Birch and Kate Brooks

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The Economic Impact of New Technology Adoption on the U.S. Apple Industry, Nichole L. Busdieker-Jesse, Lia Nogueira, Hayri Onal, and David S. Bullock

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Estimating Urban Households’ Willingness-to-Pay for Upland Forest Restoration in Vietnam, Quy Van Khuc, Mustapha Alhassan, John B. Loomis, Trung Duc Tran, and Mark W. Paschke

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An Econometric Analysis of the Nebraska Livestock Friendly County Program, Brian Mills, Azzeddine Azzam, Kathleen Brooks, and David Aiken

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Combining habitat loss and agricultural intensification improves our understanding of drivers of change in avian abundance in a North American cropland anthrome, John Quinn, Tala Awada, Federico Trindade, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, and Richard K. Perrin

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Assessing the Ability of Rural Electric Cooperatives to Retire Capital Credits, Jeffrey S. Royer

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Sustainable Consumption with an Essential Exhaustible Resource Re-Examined, Juan Sesmero and Lilyan E. Fulginiti

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A Variable Cost Function for Corn Ethanol Plants in the Midwest, Juan Sesmero, Richard K. Perrin, and Lilyan E. Fulginiti

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U.S. Agricultural Productivity: A Review of USDA Economic Research Service Methods, Richard Shumway, Barbara Fraumeni, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Jon Samuels, and Spiro Stefanou

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Lessons to Be Learned from Groundwater Trading in Australia and the United States, Sarah Ann Wheeler, Karina Schoengold, and H. Bjornlund

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2016 Nebraska Farm Custom Rates — Part I, Roger Wilson and Jim Jansen

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2016 Nebraska Farm Custom Rates — Part II, Roger Wilson and Jim Jansen

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TTIP and Agricultural Trade: The Case of Tariff Elimination and Pesticide Policy Cooperation, Bo Xiong and John C. Beghin

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Is Social Capital Motivated by Self-interest Only? A Case Study on a Well-developed U.S. Rural Community, Zhenyu Zhang and Gary D. Lynne

2015

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Trade Restrictiveness Indices in the Presence of Externalities: An Application to Non-Tariff Measures, John Christopher Beghin, Anne-Célia Disdier, and Stéphan Marette

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Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains, John C. Beghin, Miet Maertens, and Johan Swinnen

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THE IMPACT OF BIOFUELS POLICY AND DROUGHT ON THE U.S. GRAIN AND LIVESTOCK MARKETS, Sunil P. Dhoubhadel, Azzeddine M. Azzam, and Matt C. Stockton

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Educating pastoralists and extension officers on diverse livestock diseases in a changing environment in Tanzania, Christopher Gustafson, Elizabeth VanWormer, Rudovick Kazwala, Asha Makweta, Goodluck Paul, Woutrina Smith, and Jonna A. K. Mazet

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2016 Nebraska Crop Budgets, Robert N. Klein, Roger Wilson, Jessica Groskopf, and Jim Jansen

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2014 Farm Bill Education Program for Nebraska Agricultural Producers, Tim M. Lemmons

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Piecemeal Reform of Trade and Environmental Policy When Consumption Also Pollutes, Mark R. Metcalfe and John C. Beghin

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Measurement of U.S. Agricultural Productivity: A 2014 Review of Current Statistics and Proposals for Change., Richard Shumway, Barbara Fraumeni, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Jon Samuels, and Spiro Stefanou

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U.S. Crop Yields Redux: Weather Effects versus Human Inputs, Federico Trindade

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Is there a Slowdown in Agricultural Productivity Growth in South America?, Federico Trindade and Lilyan E. Fulginiti

2014

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The Impact of an EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement on Biofuel and Feedstock Markets, John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau, and Alexandre Gohin

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Requiring Pollutant Discharge Permits for Pesticide Applications that Deposit Residues in Surface Waters, Terence Centner and Nicholas Eberhart

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Requiring Pollutant Discharge Permits for Pesticide Applications that Deposit Residues in Surface Waters, Terence J. Centner and Nicholas Eberhart

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Farm Bill 2014: An Experimental Investigation of Conservation Compliance, Hans J. Czap, Natalia V. Czap, and Gary D. Lynne

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Nebraska Cash Corn Prices and Basis Patterns, Jessica J. Johnson and Cory Walters