Issue Reports
Farm Foundation Issue Reports are a vehicle for discussion and debate of the diverse challenges facing food, agriculture and rural America today. Farm Foundation programs and projects are the source of materials discussed in Issue Reports.
Could Climate Change Produce a Revolutionary 2023 Farm Bill?
September 2022
Report Archives
The New Generation of Farmers and Ranchers Infusing U.S. Agriculture, November 2019
Understanding the Priorities, Focuses and Potential Implications of Conservation Agriculture, September 2019
Agriculture and the Judicial Branch: The Third Leg of Governance, March 2019
The Economically Efficient Composition of Rural Infrastructure Investment, September 2018
Theory and Practice of Prioritizing Infrastructure Projects, September 2018
Local Perspectives on Rank and Selection of Infrastructure Projects, September 2018
Impacts of USDA Broadband Loan & Grant Programs, September 2018
Economic Impacts, Costs and Benefits of Infrastructure Investment: Review of the Literature, September 2018
Economic Returns to Rural Infrastructure Investment: Productivity and Quality-of-Life Benefits to Rural Infrastructure, September 2018
Reconciling Farm Commodity Policy, September 2017
Farmland Ownership: Trends and Future Implications, September 2017
Transparency of Nontariff Measures in Food and Agricultural Trade, September 2011
What’s Driving Food Prices in 2011?, July 2011
Agriculture Research and Productivity for the Future, September 2009
What’s Driving Food Prices? March 2009 Update, March 2009
The 30-Year Challenge: Agriculture’s Strategic Role in Feeding and Fueling a Growing World, December 2008
What’s Driving Food Prices?, July 2008
Second Decade of Crop Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges in Crop Biotechnology, March 2008
Trade and Domestic Farm Policy, March 2008
Food Product Composition, Consumer Health and Public Policy, August 2007
Funding Research and Extension, May 2007
Immigration Reform, Agriculture and Rural Communities, January 2007
University-Industry Relationships in Agricultural Biotechnology Research, December 2006
Agriculture, Forestry and Greenhouse Gases, September 2005
Economics of Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies, August 2005
Immigrants Change the Face of Rural America, January 2005
North American Market Integration, November 2004
Farmland Preservation, April 2004
Production Contracts, May 2004