1998-05 PAER

May 15, 1998

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  • Food System 21: Gearing Up for the New Millennium – Part I
    • International Trade
    • Hog/Pork Sector
  • Economics of Variable Rate Planting by Yield Potential Zones
  • Manufacturing in the Indiana Economy
  • Indiana Farm Fence Law
  • The Asian Economic Crisis: Does It Matter to U.S. Agriculture?

Articles in this Publication:

Food System 21: Gearing Up for the New Millennium – Part I

Philip Abbott, Thomas Hertel, William Masters, Philip Paarlberg, John Sanders, and Wally Tyner

Economics of Variable Rate Planting by Yield Potential Zones

Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, Extension Economist

Manufacturing in the Indiana Economy

Steven McCoy, Graduate Student, and Kevin McNamara, Professor

Indiana Farm Fence Law

Gerald A. Harrison, Extension Economist

The Asian Economics Crisis: Does It Matter to U.S. Agriculture?

Philip L. Paarlberg, Associate Professor

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