Report
April 15, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
Agricultural Policy Studies
A series on US agriculture
Report
April 16, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
The 2024 American Relief Act, a disaster aid initiative, included $10 billion to compensate farmers for low prices that year, which farm interest groups claimed were financially catastrophic. However, financial indicators including overall farm income and farmers’ equity levels reveal that this bailout for the agricultural sector was probably not justified.
Report
April 15, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
Trepidation Day: Reciprocal Tariffs and the Vulnerability of US Agriculture
Recent Publications
Op-Ed
March 24, 2025
American Farmers Got a Tariff Bailout in Trump’s First Term. This Time the Money Might Not Come.
Event
March 31, 2025
Highly Infectious Avian Flu and the Price of Eggs: Are There Pathways to a Solution?
Event
June 05, 2024
A Tale of Two Farm Bills: Cheers or Jeers for Farm Subsidy Proposals from the House and Senate?
Post
May 28, 2024
Feckless Fiscal Irresponsibility: The House Agricultural Committee Chair’s Proposed Farm Bill and the “Farm Income Safety Net” Program
Op-Ed
September 07, 2023
American Farmers Urgently Need New Technology to Keep Food on the World’s Table
Event
April 18, 2023
Conservation and Agricultural Research and Development: Pathways to Efficient and Effective Climate Policy
Op-Ed
March 02, 2022
As Wheat Prices Keep Surging over Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Here’s How to Think About US Food Costs
Working Paper
August 31, 2021
Food Aid Cargo Preference: Impacts on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Emergency Food Aid Programs
Journal Publication
April 23, 2021
China – Tariff Rate Quotas for Certain Agricultural Products: Against the Grain: Can the WTO Open Chinese Markets? A Contaminated Experiment
Op-Ed
March 10, 2021
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Should Thank American Taxpayers for Their Profitable Farmland Investments
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Farm Bill Primers
The current farm bill is set to expire in 2023. The House and Senate have begun holding hearings to consider the next iteration of this legislation. To support and inform this process, AEI has put together a series of ten one-page primers through our Center for Agricultural Policy Studies. These ten primers loosely correspond with the twelve titles of the farm bill, providing a brief overview of the history, scope, intent, impact, and cost of various farm bill programs.
Seasonal Harvest Reports
Report
April 16, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
Examining Support for US Farmers: The 2025 Ad Hoc Economic Assistance Programs
Report
April 15, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
Immigration Enforcement and the US Agricultural Sector in 2025
Report
April 15, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
Trepidation Day: Reciprocal Tariffs and the Vulnerability of US Agriculture
Report
January 16, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
World Agricultural Crop Production over the Past Six Decades: Will Sustained Productivity Growth Continue, or Will Atrophy Set In?
Report
December 19, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
World Agricultural Crop Production over the Past Six Decades: A Miracle of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Report
October 16, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Food Price Inflation and the 2024 Presidential Election
Report
October 16, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Sustainable Aviation Fuel: A Life Flight for the Ethanol Industry?
Report
October 16, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
High on Hemp: Implications of the Farm Bill for National Weed Markets
Report
July 15, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Why Does Anyone Farm: For the Money or Food on the Table?
Report
April 02, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Technology-Based Water Conservation Programs: All Buck, No Bang
Report
April 02, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Alternative Land-Use Impacts of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge: Corn Ethanol vs. Soybean Oil Pathways
Report
April 02, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Administrations Can Currently Raid Commodity Credit Corporation Funds for Their Own Initiatives: Good Idea or Bad Idea?
Report
December 11, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
All We Want for Christmas: Seven Wish Lists for Agricultural Policy Change
Report
November 06, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Leave Reference Prices Where They Are: Farm Safety-Net Programs Already Work Too Well
Report
November 06, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
The Path Forward for US Agricultural Trade: Free Trade, Fair Trade, or Both?
Report
October 03, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Economics of Base Updating for US Crop Program Payments
Report
October 03, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
The Identification and Relevance of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Federal Crop Insurance
Report
September 05, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Don’t Reverse Recent Food Aid Reforms by Passing the American Farmers Feed the World Act
Report
July 05, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Agricultural Conservation Programs and Climate Change
Report
June 06, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
How the Colorado River System’s Reduced Flow Could Affect Western Agriculture
Report
May 09, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
The Argument for Replacing Crop Insurance with Index Insurance
Report
April 03, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Revitalizing the Slow Magic of US Agri-Food Research
Report
April 03, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
What Harm Is Done by the Federal Crop Insurance Program Today?
Report
March 06, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Keep Calm and Listen to Your Inside Voice: Fertilizer Markets at Work
Report
March 06, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Farm Animal Treatment in the United States: What Role Is There for Additional Federal Regulations?
Report
February 01, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Why Public-Private Partnerships Can Be Expensive: The Case of the Federal Crop Insurance Program
Report
February 01, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
The Growth of the Federal Crop Insurance Program, 2010–22
Report
February 01, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Taxpayers Are Supporting More Than Farmers with Crop Insurance Subsidies
Report
January 03, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Poultry Tournaments: Risk Management or Just a Game of Chicken?
Report
January 03, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Congressional Oversight vs. Administrative Discretion Gone Wild? The Case of the Commodity Credit Corporation
Report
January 03, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Stop Paying Attention to the Farmers’ Share of the Food Dollar
Report
December 06, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Sensible Caps on Insurance and Other Farm Subsidies Make Economic and Political Sense
Report
December 06, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Organic and Small Farms Are Beautiful, but That Does Not Excuse Federal Policy Favors
Report
November 02, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Policies That Support Growth in Beef Demand Drive Industry Prosperity and Benefit Consumers
Report
November 02, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Subsidies for Beginning Farmers: Should We Bet the Farm?
Report
October 04, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Direct Farm Subsidy Programs in the 2023 Farm Bill: What Farm and Other Interest Groups Want
Report
September 07, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Who Receives Crop Insurance Subsidy Benefits?
Report
September 07, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s Agricultural Provisions: Rent-Seeking at Its Best?
Report
August 04, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Blunt Realities of Weed Economics: The National Patchwork of Legalization
Report
July 05, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
How to Improve International Agricultural Development Programs
Report
July 05, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Global Food Security and Climate Change Mitigation: The Potential Role of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Report
July 05, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Why Agricultural Trade Is (or Can Be) a Life-and-Death Matter
Report
June 06, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Should Taxpayers Be Investing in the Working Lands Programs?
Report
May 02, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
High Fertilizer Prices: Supply and Demand at Work Muddled by War and Market Interventions
Report
May 02, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Affecting Global Agricultural Markets
Report
March 01, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Does Expanding Rangeland Insurance Help or Hurt US Ranches?
Report
March 01, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
The US Animal Insurance Program: Rapid Expansion at a Growing Cost to Taxpayers
Report
March 01, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Policies Dictating How Cattle Can Be Marketed Threaten the Beef Industry’s Progress
Report
March 01, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
“Climate Smart” Agriculture: A Prudent Investment or Just Another Subsidy to Farmers?
Report
February 01, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Food Price Spikes Temporary, Inflation Likely to Fall in 2022
Report
February 01, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Subsidized Beef Packing Expansion Unlikely Sustainable
Report
February 01, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Where’s the Pork in the Surge in Recent Pork Prices? Maybe Nowhere, and Not in the Meatpacking Industry
Report
February 01, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Recapping the Effects of the US Sugar Program
Report
January 03, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Can Farmers Reverse Climate Change Through Carbon Farming?
Report
January 03, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
The Role of Policy in Supporting a Globally Diverse Bio-Economy That Mitigates Climate Change and Food Insecurity
Report
January 03, 2022
American Enterprise Institute
Climate-Smart Agriculture and the World Trade Organization
Report
December 07, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
Lessons from Recent Ad Hoc Agricultural Disaster Programs
Report
December 07, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
Farm-sector Spending on Federal Campaign Contributions and Lobbying Expenditures: Evidence from 2003 to 2020
Report
November 02, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
Climate Change and Agriculture: What Is the Role of Policy?
Report
November 02, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
Trade and US Agriculture: What to Expect from the Biden Administration
Report
November 02, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
US Emergency Food Aid Programs: In the Current COVID-19 Global Environment, Commonsense Reforms Are Overdue
Report
October 01, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
Is the Past the Prologue for the Future of Agricultural Policy in the United States?
Report
October 01, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
Do We Need More Drought Relief Programs for Farmers Because of Climate Change? Probably Not.
All Agricultural Policy Content
Report
April 16, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
Examining Support for US Farmers: The 2025 Ad Hoc Economic Assistance Programs
Report
April 15, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
Immigration Enforcement and the US Agricultural Sector in 2025
Report
April 15, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
Trepidation Day: Reciprocal Tariffs and the Vulnerability of US Agriculture
Op-Ed
March 24, 2025
American Farmers Got a Tariff Bailout in Trump’s First Term. This Time the Money Might Not Come.
Event
March 31, 2025
Highly Infectious Avian Flu and the Price of Eggs: Are There Pathways to a Solution?
Report
January 16, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
Food Aid Cargo Preference and Sourcing Mandates: How More Rent-Seeking Legislation Could Waste Precious Resources
Report
January 16, 2025
American Enterprise Institute
World Agricultural Crop Production over the Past Six Decades: Will Sustained Productivity Growth Continue, or Will Atrophy Set In?
Report
December 19, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
World Agricultural Crop Production over the Past Six Decades: A Miracle of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Report
October 16, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Food Price Inflation and the 2024 Presidential Election
Report
October 16, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Sustainable Aviation Fuel: A Life Flight for the Ethanol Industry?
Report
October 16, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
High on Hemp: Implications of the Farm Bill for National Weed Markets
Report
July 15, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Why Does Anyone Farm: For the Money or Food on the Table?
Event
June 05, 2024
A Tale of Two Farm Bills: Cheers or Jeers for Farm Subsidy Proposals from the House and Senate?
Post
May 28, 2024
Feckless Fiscal Irresponsibility: The House Agricultural Committee Chair’s Proposed Farm Bill and the “Farm Income Safety Net” Program
Report
April 02, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Administrations Can Currently Raid Commodity Credit Corporation Funds for Their Own Initiatives: Good Idea or Bad Idea?
Report
April 02, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Technology-Based Water Conservation Programs: All Buck, No Bang
Report
April 02, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
Alternative Land-Use Impacts of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge: Corn Ethanol vs. Soybean Oil Pathways
Report
December 11, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
All We Want for Christmas: Seven Wish Lists for Agricultural Policy Change
Report
November 06, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Leave Reference Prices Where They Are: Farm Safety-Net Programs Already Work Too Well
Report
November 06, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
The Path Forward for US Agricultural Trade: Free Trade, Fair Trade, or Both?
Report
October 03, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Economics of Base Updating for US Crop Program Payments
Report
October 03, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
The Identification and Relevance of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Federal Crop Insurance
Op-Ed
September 07, 2023
American Farmers Urgently Need New Technology to Keep Food on the World’s Table
Report
September 05, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Don’t Reverse Recent Food Aid Reforms by Passing the American Farmers Feed the World Act
Report
July 05, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
Agricultural Conservation Programs and Climate Change
Report
June 06, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
How the Colorado River System’s Reduced Flow Could Affect Western Agriculture
Report
May 09, 2023
American Enterprise Institute
