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In accordance with OMB's Final Information
Quality Bulletin for Peer Review  ,
ERS’s Peer Review Agenda for potentially influential scientific information
is reported below. The agenda is updated quarterly.
ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed April 2011 through June 2011) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| Factors Influencing the Adoption of Precision Agriculture |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| The Infant Formula Market: Consequences of a Change in the WIC Contract Brand |
Economic Research Report |
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| Increased Realism: How Americans Perceive Their Diet Quality |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Effects of Third-Party Audits and Plant Characteristics on Food Safety Technology Use in Meat and Poultry Plants |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| How Much Time Do Americans Spend on Food? |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Poverty: A Parametric Approach |
Economic Research Report |
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| An Analysis of the Limited Base Acre Provision of the 2008 Farm Act |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Farms Important to Rural Development Policy's New Focus on Local Foods and Renewable Energy |
Economic Research Report |
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| Water Conservation in Irrigated Agriculture: Trends and Challenges in the Face of Emerging Demands |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Trends in U.S. Farmland Values and Ownership |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Revenue Programs Triggered a Different Levels of Aggregation: Analysis of Expected Payments, Risk Reduction and Revenue Program Election |
Economic Research Report |
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| Public Agricultural Research Spending and Future U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth: Scenarios for 2010-2010 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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International Food Security Assessment, 2011 |
Outlook Special Report |
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International Food Security Assessment, 2010 Update: Higher Food Commodity Prices Mitigated by Improved Production Performance |
Outlook Special Report |
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European Financial Imbalances: Implications of the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Problem for U.S. Agricultural Exports |
Outlook Special Report |
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NAFTA at 17: Trade Liberalization Fades Into the Background |
Outlook Special Report |
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Estimating the Share of Imports in U.S. Food Consumption |
Outlook Special Report |
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Food Commodity Prices Have Risen—Again |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed January 2011 through March 2011) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| International Evidence on Food Consumption Patterns: An Update Using 2005 International Comparison Program Data |
Technical Bulletin |
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| Farmers' Direct Marketing of Local Food in the United States |
Economic Research Report |
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| Federal Tax Policies and Rural America |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Grassland To Cropland Conversion In The Northern Plans: The Role Of Markets And Policy |
Economic Research Report |
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| Impact of Regional Approaches to Rural Development: Initial Evidence on the Delta Regional Authority |
Economic Research Report |
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| Modern Grocery Retailing: A Potential Driver of Food Demand in Developing Countries |
Economic Research Report |
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| Food Security Improved Following the ARRA Increase in SNAP Benefits in 2009 |
Economic Research Report |
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| Geographic Differences in the Relative Prices of Healthy Foods |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Trends and Developments in Hog Manure Management: 1998-2009 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Forecasting Models for the US Dairy Industry |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Changing Nature of U.S. Farming |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Do Low Prices For Foods and Beverages Increase Children's Weight? |
Economic Research Report |
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| Wheat Flour Price Shocks and Household Food Security in Afghanistan |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Almost Ideal Demand System and The Empirical Analysis of Market Food Demand |
Economic Research Report |
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Estimating the Substitution of Distillers' Grain for Corn and Soybean Meal in the U.S. Feed Complex |
Outlook Special Report |
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Brazil's Cotton Industry: Economic Reform and Development |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed October 2010 through December 2010) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| Classifying and Measuring Agricultural Support: Comparing the WTO and OECD Systems |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Agricultural Contracting Update: Contracts in 2008 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Nitrogen in Agricultural Systems: Implications for Environmental Policy |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Expansion of U.S. Ethanol Production and Corn Acreage, 2000-2009 |
Economic Brief |
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| What You Get Depends on Where You Live: Regional Price Variation and the WIC Fruit and Vegetable Cash Voucher |
Economic Research Report |
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| Characteristics of and Issues about Beef Cow-Calf Farms |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Structural Adaptations by Tobacco Producers after Policy Reform |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Climate Change Policy and the Adoption of Methane Digesters on Livestock |
Economic Research Report |
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| Carbon Offset Markets and the Adoption of Methane Digesters on Dairy and Hog Farms |
Economic Brief |
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| Free Trade Agreements and Implications for U.S. Agriculture |
Economic Research Report |
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Wheat Year in Review (Domestic): Lower Domestic Use and Exports Raise 2009/10 Ending Stocks |
Outlook Special Report |
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Financial Characteristics of Vegetable and Melon Farms |
Outlook Special Report |
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Trade, the Expanding Mexican Beef Industry, and Feedlot and Stocker Cattle Production |
Outlook Special Report |
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U.S. Fresh and Processed Apple Production—Organic Systems Gain a Toehold |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed July 2010 through September 2010) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| A Stochastic Analysis of the Effects of Ethanol Demand on the U.S. Agricultural
Sector |
Economic Research Report |
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Use of Gravity Models to Evaluate Bilateral/Regional Trade Agreements |
Economic Research Report |
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| Patterns and Trends in U.S. Tillage Practices, with Implications for Greenhouse-Gas Control Efforts |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Understanding Transitions Into and Out of WIC Participation |
Economic Research Report |
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| Patterns of Price Differences between Nontraditional and Traditional Food Retailiers |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Influence of Changing Commodity Prices on the Conservation Reserve Program |
Economic Research Report |
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| What Distinguishes High Out-Migration Counties From Nonmetro Counties - and From Each Other? |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Rural America at a Glance, 2010 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| How Much do Fruits and Vegetables Cost? |
Economic Research Report |
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| How Retail Beef and Bread Prices Respond to Changes in Ingredient and Input Costs |
Economic Research Report |
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| A Revised and Expanded Food Dollar Series |
Economic Research Report |
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China’s Apple Juice Industry |
Outlook Special Report |
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Peru: An Emerging Exporter of Fruit and Vegetables |
Outlook Special Report |
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The U.S. and Mexican Dry Bean Sectors |
Outlook Special Report |
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Brazil's Ethanol Industry: How Ethanol is Changing Brazil's Agriculture Sector |
Outlook Special Report |
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The Financial Reform Bill: Changes to the Regulation of Derivatives and Their Impact on Agribusiness |
Outlook Special Report |
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Consolidation and Structural Change in the U.S. Rice Sector |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed April 2010 through June 2010) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| U.S. Organic Food Market: Some Demand Perspectives |
Economic Research Report |
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| Crop Revenue Variability: Implications for Commodity Program Design |
Economic Research Report |
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| Contracting in the Organic Supply Chain: 2004 and 2007 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Economy-Wide Linkages of Bioenergy, Macroeconomic Factors and Trade for the United States |
Economic Research Report |
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| A Cap-and-Trade System for Greenhouse Gas Emission: Impacts on Agriculture Through Energy Prices |
Economic Research Report |
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| Structure and Finances of U.S. Farms: 2009 Family Farm Report |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| School Food Service Costs: Does Location Matter? |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Structure, Size, and Performance of Local Food Supply Chains |
Economic Research Report |
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| Eating Out, Eating at School, and Drinking Anywhere: How Food Source and Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption Affect Children's Diet Quality |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Food Assistance National Input-Output Multiplier (FANIOM) Model
and Estimation of the Fiscal Stimulus Effects of SNAP |
Technical Bulletin |
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| Price Volatility in Afghanistan's Wheat Market |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Japan's Beef Market |
Outlook Special Report |
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| North-South Cattle Price Differentials and Production Practices |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Factors Affecting U.S. Cheese Consumption |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Trade and Food Security Implications from the Indonesian
Agricultural Experience |
Outlook Special Report |
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Economic Implications of Ending the Issuance of Karnal Bunt Phytosanitary Wheat Export Certificates |
Outlook Special Report |
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Food Security Assessment, 2010-2020 |
Outlook Special Report |
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Market Issues and Prospects for U.S. Distillers’ Grains: Supply, Consumption, and Price Relationships |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed January 2010 through March 2010) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| Taxing Caloric-Sweetened Beverages: What Does it Mean for Beverage Consumption, Calorie Intake, and Obesity? |
Economic Research Report |
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| An Analysis of U.S. "At-home" Dairy Demand |
Economic Research Report |
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| Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database Methodology Report |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| The Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues |
Economic Research Report |
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| The U.S. Produce Industry and Labor: Facing the future in a Global Economy |
Economic Research Report |
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| Peanut Outlook: Impacts of the 2008-09 Foodborne Illness Outbreak Linked to Salmonella in Peanuts |
Outlook Special Report |
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Fruit Policies in Japan |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Outlook for Production of Next-Generation Biofuels: Near-Term Challenges and
Implications for Agriculture |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed October 2009 through December 2009) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| Measuring Farm Household Well-Being: Consumption is a More Informative Measure for Self-Employed Households |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Animal Welfare Laws and International Trade |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Benefits and Tradeoffs of the Renewable Fuel Standard: An Economy-Wide
Assessment of Economic Impacts |
Economic Research Report |
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| Global Economic and Land-Use Implications of Biofuel Production: The Case of Ethanol at the Medium Term |
Economic Research Report |
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| Achieving Economic and Equity Goals in Working Lands Conservation Programs |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Schools That Meet USDA Total Fat Requirements for School Lunches |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Rising Infant Formula Costs to the WIC Program: Recent Trends in Rebates and Wholesales Prices |
Economic Research Report |
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| Small Farms in the United States |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Larger Farms Dominate U.S. Milk Production |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| The Role of Agriculture in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| China Is Using More Corn for Industrial Products |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed July 2009 through September 2009) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| U.S. Organic Farming, 1997-2007: A Decade of Policy Change and Growth |
Economic Research Report |
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| Estimating the Supply and Demand Elasticities for U.S. Dry Whey |
Economic Research Report |
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| Promoting the Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables: The Coupon Option |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Evolving U.S. Organic Sector: Farm to Market Trends Between 1997 and 2007 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Targeting Issues and the Type of Rural Development Assistance |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Estimating Cross-Country Cross-Price Elasticities: The Frisch Alternative |
Economic Research Report |
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| You Are What You Eat-and Where: Disentangling the Effect of Food Away From Home on Diet Quality |
Economic Research Report |
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| Getting with the Programs: Changes in Use of TANF and Food Assistance Since Welfare Reform |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Food Spending Declined and Food Insecurity Increased for Middle-Income and Low-Income Households from 2000 to 2007 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Food Security Deteriorates in Households in the Months Just Prior to Initial Receipt of SNAP/Food Stamp Benefits |
Economic Research Report |
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| Rural America at a Glance, 2009 Edition |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| An Analysis of U.S. "At-home" Fluid Milk Demand Elasticities |
Economic Research Report |
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| Food-Related Energy Use in the United States |
Economic Research Report |
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| U.S. Food Import Patterns: 1998-2007 |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Younger Consumers Exhibit Less Demand for Fresh Vegetables |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Issues and Prospects in Agricultural Futures Markets: New Entrants, Price
Volatility, and Market Performance Implications |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| What the 2008/2009 World Economic Crisis Means for Global Agricultural
Trade |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed April 2009 through June 2009) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| The Baby Boom and Rural Population Change: Past, Present, and Future |
Economic Research Report |
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| Ensuring Competition in the WIC Program: A Case Study of New Vendor Cost-containment Legislation |
Economic Research Report |
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| Do Farmers Pay a Rent Premium for Base Acres? |
Economic Research Report |
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| Implications of Growing Biofuel Production on Feeding Livestock and Poultry |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Assessing the Benefits of Public Research Within an Economic Framework: The Case of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service |
Economic Research Report |
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| Health and Health Resource Indicators of Farm and Rural Household Well-Being |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Agricultural Land Tenure and Carbon Offsets |
Economic Brief |
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| Participation in Conservation Programs by Beginning, Limited Resource, and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Extent of Overweight in the United States Grew Faster than Standard Measures Indicate |
Economic Research Report |
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| Characteristics, Costs and Issues with Organic Dairy Farming |
Economic Research Report |
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| Structural Change and Adjustment to Policy Reform: The Post-buyout Experience of Peanuts and Tobacco |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Biofuels Shape the Agricultural Landscape |
Economic Research Report |
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| Broadband Internet's Value for Rural America |
Economic Research Report |
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| Issues and Prospects in Agricultural Futures Markets: New
Entrants, Price Volatility, and Market Performance Implications |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Factors Behind the Rise in Global Rice Prices in 2008 |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Factors Shaping Expanding U.S. Red Meat Trade |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Russia's Growing Agricultural Imports: Causes and Outlook |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Production Expenses of Specialized U.S. Fruit and Nut Farms |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Ethanol Co-products Use in U.S. Cattle Feeding |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Trends In U.S. Cotton Basis Since 2001 |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed January 2009 through March 2009) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| Emerging Issues in the U.S. Organic Sector |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Rural Broadband at a Glance |
Economic Information
Bulletin |
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| Market Implications of the Introduction of Milk and Meat from Cloned animals and Their Offspring into Food Supply |
Economic Research Report |
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| Federal Tax Policies and Farm Households |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| The 2008/2009 World Economic Crisis: What It Means for U.S. Agriculture |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Colombia: A New Ethanol Producer on the Rise? |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| NAFTA at 15: Building on Free Trade |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Consequences of Higher Input Costs and Wheat Prices for U.S. Wheat
Producers |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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| Fiber Use for Textiles and China's Cotton Textile Exports |
E-Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed October 2008 through December 2008) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| Supermarket Loss Estimates for Fresh Fruits, Vegetables, Meat, Poultry, and Seafood |
Economic Research Report |
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| Defining Farms for Statistics and Programs |
Economic Information
Bulletin |
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| The Transformation of U.S. Livestock Agriculture |
Economic Brief |
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| Changes in Manure Management in the Hog Sector: 1998-2004 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Using Vertically Coordinated Relationship To Overcome Tight Supply in the Organic Market |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Economic Impacts of Feed-Related Regulatory Responses To Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed July 2008 through September 2008) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| Million-Dollar Farms in the New Century |
Economic Information
Bulletin |
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| Beginning Farmers and Ranchers |
Economic Information
Bulletin |
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| Rural America at a Glance, 2008 Edition |
Economic Information
Bulletin |
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| Conservation in U.S. Wheat Production: Evidence From an Integrated National Survey (2004 CEAP-ARMS) |
Economic Research Report |
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| Food Price Inflation Takes a Bite Out of Food Stamps |
Economic Research Report |
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| Estimating the Supply and Demand Elasticities for U.S. Dry Whey |
Economic Research Report |
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| Production Expenses of Specialized Vegetable and Melon Farms |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed April 2008 through June 2008) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| The Use of Markets to Increase Private Investment in Environmental Stewardship |
Economic Research Report |
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| Economic Impacts of Foreign Animal Disease |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Effects of Avian Influenza Outbreaks on Consumer Purchasing Behavior |
Economic Research Report |
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| Inter-temporal Choices: Estimating how Visceral Influences and Dietary Awareness Affect Food Choices |
Economic Research Report |
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| Economic Measures of Soil Conservation Benefit: Regional Values for Policy Assessment |
Technical Bulletin |
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| Is the Use of Food Labels Declining? Changes in Food Label Use between 1995-96 and 2005-06 |
Economic Research Report |
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| U.S. Agricultural Trade Boosts Overall Economy |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Global Agricultural Supply and Demand: Factors Contributing to the Recent
Increase in Food Commodity Prices |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed January 2008 through March 2008) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| The Economics of Managing Infectious Wildlife Disease When Livestock are at Risk |
Economic Information
Bulletin |
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| The U.S. Organic Handling Sector in 2004 Baseline Findings of the Nationwide Survey of Organic Manufacturers, Processors, and Distributors |
Economic Information
Bulletin |
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| How Accurate is Self Reported Consumer Purchase Behavior? Cross-Validation of Homescan Data |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Economic Organization of U.S. Broiler Production |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Integrating Prevention and Control Policies to Manage Invasive Species Efficiently: PREISM Findings |
Economic Brief |
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| The Japanese Market for Oranges |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Economic Impacts of Feed-Related Regulatory Responses
to Animal Disease Outbreaks
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Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed, October 2007 through December 2007) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| The Economic Forces Driving Food Safety in Meat and Poultry |
Economic Research Report |
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| Forecasting Farm Income: Documenting USDA's Forecast Model |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Using Agricultural Policy to Promote Rural Development: Contrasting
the Approach of the European Union and the United States |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Are Fruits and Vegetables Becoming More Expensive than "Unhealthy" Foods? |
Economic Research
Report |
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| U.S Per Capita Food Availability Trends, 2970-2004 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| The EU Sugar Policy Regime and the Implications of 2005 Reforms |
Economic Research Report |
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| Public Agricultural Research Since 1980 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Are Lower Income Households Willing and Able to Budget for Fruits
and Vegetables? |
Economic Research Report |
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| Food Stamp and Obesity: What Do We Know? |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| Convergence in Food Demand and Delivery: Do Middle-Income Countries
Follow High-Income Trends? |
Economic Research Report |
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| Profile of Hired Farmworkers, 2008s |
Economic Research Report |
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| Agricultural Contracting Update: Contracts in 2005 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| China’s Cotton Supply And Demand: Issues and Impact |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Avian Influenza Impacts on World Poultry Meat Trade |
Outlook Special Report |
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ERS Peer Review Agenda for Potentially Influential
Scientific Information
(Completed July 2007 through September 2007) |
| Working Title |
Description |
Peer Review Plan |
| Food Stamp Program Effective Benefit Reduction Rates and Cross-Program
Effects |
Economic Research Report |
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| The Role of Marketing Loans in Supply Response for U.S. Dry Peas
and Lentils: Implications for World Trade |
Economic Research Report |
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| Food Safety and Imported Food: An Analysis Using FDA Import Refusal
Reports |
Economic Information
Bulletin |
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| The National School Lunch Program: Backgrounds, Trends, and Issues |
Economic Research Report |
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| Characteristics and Production Costs of U.S. Hog Operations, 2004 |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| The Future Role of Biofuels: A Global Perpective |
Economic Information Bulletin |
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| China Currency Appreciation Could Boost U.S. Agricultural Exports |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Impact of Rising Natural Gas Prices on U.S. Ammonia Supply |
Outlook Special Report |
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| U.S. Imports of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables |
Outlook Special Report |
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| Beef Production in Argentina and Uruguay |
Outlook Special Report |
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Contact
For information on ERS's agenda and plans for peer reviews of highly
influential scientific assessments and influential scientific information,
contact:
Elise Golan
Economic Research Service
1800 M Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
email: EGolan@ers.usda.gov
phone: (202) 694-5424
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