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View article: Row Crops and the U.S. Agricultural Trade Deficit: Recent Trends and Policy Issues
Row Crops and the U.S. Agricultural Trade Deficit: Recent Trends and Policy Issues Open
Row crops such as soybeans, corn, wheat, and cotton are the backbone of the U.S. farm sector, accounting for around $60 billion of exports in 2023. While U.S. row crop exports remain robust, growing concerns over the rising U.S. agricultur…
View article: Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on U.S. Agri‐Food Trade
Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on U.S. Agri‐Food Trade Open
In recent years, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the agricultural and food sector have increased market power, and the resulting higher prices have eroded the competitiveness of U.S. firms in the world market. This study examines how me…
View article: Economic viability of robotic fruit harvesters to reduce large seasonal labor demands: Analysis of Gala and Honeycrisp apples
Economic viability of robotic fruit harvesters to reduce large seasonal labor demands: Analysis of Gala and Honeycrisp apples Open
Fruit harvesting is labor intensive and relies heavily on a decreasing immigrant farm labor supply. This study develops a model to compare robotic and manual apple‐harvesting profits. Given the anticipated performance of robotic prototypes…
View article: Impacts of tariffs and NTMs on beef, pork and poultry trade
Impacts of tariffs and NTMs on beef, pork and poultry trade Open
Though tariffs have declined in recent years, the number of applied non‐tariff measures (NTMs) in meat trade has expanded. We estimate the impacts of tariffs and NTMs (sanitary and phytosanitary [SPS] measures, technical barriers to trade …
View article: Brazilian soybean expansion, US–China trade war, and US soybean exports
Brazilian soybean expansion, US–China trade war, and US soybean exports Open
This paper estimates the impact of Brazilian soybean area expansion on US and Brazilian soybean exports to China by projecting these countries’ exports for various Brazilian soybean area growth scenarios. The results indicate that the Braz…
View article: Gravity trade model with firm heterogeneity and horizontal foreign direct investment
Gravity trade model with firm heterogeneity and horizontal foreign direct investment Open
We develop a gravity trade model based on a theoretical analysis of heterogeneous firms that engage in horizontal Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) or exporting. The model allows firms' endogenous choice between exporting or FDI to impact th…
View article: Competition and trade policy in the world cotton market: Implications for <scp>US</scp> cotton exports
Competition and trade policy in the world cotton market: Implications for <span>US</span> cotton exports Open
Cotton is a cornerstone of global fiber markets, and many importing and exporting countries play important roles in the global cotton market. The US cotton sector has long been one of the world's largest. However, Brazil's cotton productio…
View article: The <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 pandemic and trade in agricultural products
The <span>COVID</span>‐19 pandemic and trade in agricultural products Open
In this study, we develop a structural gravity model to analyse the effects of the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic on international trade in food and agriculture. Using detailed data on trade flows, we estimate the trade impacts of the pandemic …
View article: The effects of freer trade on global agriculture
The effects of freer trade on global agriculture Open
Intransigency among developed and developing countries to reduce trade‐distortive policies—domestic subsidies, export subsidies, and import tariffs—created deadlock in the Doha Round negotiations. Because of this impasse, many countries co…
View article: Consequences of Chinese tariff and US MFP payments on world soybean‐complex markets
Consequences of Chinese tariff and US MFP payments on world soybean‐complex markets Open
This study develops a theoretical and empirical spatial equilibrium model to determine the effects of removing the Chinese soybean tariff and US MFP payments on world soybean‐complex markets. The model includes vertical and horizontal link…
View article: Taste renaissance, tax reform, and industrial organization of the beer industry
Taste renaissance, tax reform, and industrial organization of the beer industry Open
We develop a theoretical model of the beer industry consisting of two segments: monopolistically competitive heterogeneous craft breweries that compete based on variety and quality and oligopolistically competitive macrobreweries that comp…
View article: An Empirical Evaluation of Egg Demand in the United States
An Empirical Evaluation of Egg Demand in the United States Open
We adopt an EASI model to estimate demand for omega-3, organic, cage-free, and conventional eggs in the United States. Our empirical framework accounts for demand inter-dependencies among these egg types, while allowing for unrestricted En…
View article: Trends and Issues Facing the U.S. Citrus Industry
Trends and Issues Facing the U.S. Citrus Industry Open
The U.S. citrus industry has been experiencing many challenges: pests and disease, labor woes, adverse weather, and foreign competition. Unless these problems are resolved, the downward trend in production will continue. To prevent this tr…
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We use a broiler supply-chain model to examine the impacts of COVID-19-induced labor shortages and income reduction throughout the sector. Results show that the labor shock has negative effects on production throughout the supply chain, ca…
View article: The Effects of <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 on Fruit and Vegetable Production
The Effects of <span>COVID</span>‐19 on Fruit and Vegetable Production Open
COVID‐19 has had unprecedented effects on the US economy, in large part because of its effects on workers. Within food and agriculture, these effects pose the greatest threat to the production of labor‐intensive commodities—in particular, …
View article: Effects of Yuan–Dollar Exchange Rate Changes on World Cotton Markets
Effects of Yuan–Dollar Exchange Rate Changes on World Cotton Markets Open
From April 2018 to August 2019, the Yuan has declined in value relative to the US dollar by 12.6%, and the effects of this decline have not been studied. This study analyzes the effects of this fall in Yuan value, in isolation of tariffs, …
View article: Implications of U.S. Immigration Policies for North American Economies
Implications of U.S. Immigration Policies for North American Economies Open
We develop a four-sector (labor-intensive agriculture, capital-intensive agriculture, service & construction, and manufacturing) general-equilibrium model of North American countries to analyze the effects of tighter U.S. immigration polic…
View article: Impacts of U.S., Mexican, and Canadian Trade Agreement on Commodity and Labor Markets
Impacts of U.S., Mexican, and Canadian Trade Agreement on Commodity and Labor Markets Open
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation has resulted in an updated agreement known as the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA). Given the contentious nature of the renegotiation process, we analyze the impact…
View article: Implications of Commodity Programs and Crop Insurance Policies for Wheat Producers
Implications of Commodity Programs and Crop Insurance Policies for Wheat Producers Open
We analyze the effects of Price Loss Coverage (PLC), Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC), individual revenue protection insurance (RP), and Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) on the RP coverage level, certainty equivalent, and program payments…
View article: Impacts of Chinese Tariff on World Soybean Markets
Impacts of Chinese Tariff on World Soybean Markets Open
China targeted U.S. soybeans, among other commodities, for its recent retaliatory tariff chiefly because of the sheer volume of its imports from the United States. We develop a theoretical and empirical spatial equilibrium trade model to a…
View article: Theme Overview: The Role of Guest Workers in U.S. Agriculture
Theme Overview: The Role of Guest Workers in U.S. Agriculture Open
The articles in this theme examine the history of guest-worker and H-2A programs, farm-labor shortages, the changing profile of agricultural farmworkers, and the H-2A visa application procedure. Also discussed are recent employment trends …
View article: Trade and Investment Liberalization in the Processed Food Market under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
Trade and Investment Liberalization in the Processed Food Market under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Open
We investigate the impacts of Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) liberalizations of trade and investment barriers on processed food markets. Using a four-region monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous food-processi…