Analysis

Excerpts: The Columbia-Snake River System (CSRS) provides an efficient and sustainable way to move agricultural products and other commodities from Idaho, Washington, and [...]

Excerpt: The Mississippi River System (MRS) plays a vital role in moving agricultural goods and other commodities efficiently and sustainably. In recent years, the MRS [...]

Excerpts: Setting and regulating prices in the rail industry is challenging. Economists typically refer to “marginal cost pricing” (i.e., setting price equal to margina [...]

Excerpts: Historically, grain exports from Brazil have relied heavily on road transportation to bridge long distances between major production regions and Brazilian port [...]

This paper follows up on an analysis published by the authors in 2015 titled, “Eroding U.S. Soybean Competitiveness and Market Shares: What is the Road Ahead?” The updat [...]

Contents: Introduction --- Shipment Parameters --- Pre-Sale Research --- Determining the Conditions of Sale --- Sample Pro-Forma Invoice [Not Included] --- Determining T [...]

This report provides a breakout by mode of corn, wheat, soybeans, sorghum, and barley movements to either domestic markets or U.S. ports for export between 1984 and 2022. [...]

Excerpt: The goal of the Market Data Guidelines for Produce in Regional Food Systems effort is to increase the consistency of produce market data across the local foods [...]

Excerpts: In appendix C of this volume is a set of tables of the standard income series relating to agriculture on a national basis, which are published regularly by the [...]

Excerpts: Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP) grants serve the growing $9 billion U.S. market for local foods and have a long history of generating new income source [...]