2000-12 PAER
December 15, 2000
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- What Do Locally Owned Cooperative in Indiana Look Like?
- The Law Behind Planning and Zoning
Articles in this Publication:
December 15, 2000
Thomas Hertel, Professor; Alejandro Nin, Graduate Research Assistant; Allan Rae, Professor at Massey University; and Simeon Ehui, Economist with the International Livestock Research Institute
Jennifer Vandeburg, Research Associate; Joan Fulton, Associate Professor; Susan Hine, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University; and Kevin McNamara, Professor
Jesse J. Richardson Jr., Attorney and Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia; Julie Farris, Member Indiana Bar; and Gerald A. Harrison, Professor and Extension Economist*
This is a targeted policy aimed at a narrow slice of the beef market — imported product for ground beef, much of which is lean processing beef — rather than a broad intervention in the fed-cattle market. It was announced in response to historically tight cattle supplies and unusually high beef prices. Within that narrow lane, the most plausible effect is some additional availability of lower-cost processing beef and some downward pressure on ground-beef prices.
READ MOREEnergy prices are 14.7 percent above year-ago levels, and yet the raw agricultural commodities that sit at the head of the food pipeline are cheaper than they were last July. That combination is the whole story of this month’s release — but it is not evidence that the energy shock missed agriculture.
READ MOREIn sum, state-level aggregate farmland prices exhibited relatively modest changes from 2025 to 2026. Respondents suggest that the majority of market forces are placing downward pressure on farmland prices, so it is not surprising that they expect modest declines through the remainder of 2026.
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