Immigration Policy Outlook for Agriculture
by Margaret Jodlowski (jodlowski.1@osu.edu) Immigration, especially its impact on the U.S. workforce, was a hot-button issue during the 2024 presidential election. President Trump has made it clear that increased immigration enforcement will be a key feature of his second term,…
US “Reciprocal Tariffs”: What Do They Mean?
By Ian Sheldon (sheldon.1@osu.edu) Currently the United States is on course to deviate from its World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments by unilaterally resetting all of its previously bound tariffs, President Trump referring to these as “reciprocal tariffs”. However, the interpretation…
Could US Buyers Bear the Cost of Import Tariffs?
By Ian Sheldon (sheldon.1@osu.edu) To trade economists this seems a rather odd question, the answer to which would be: well of course tariffs impose costs on buyers (consumers and firms purchasing inputs), and the basic explanation can be found in…
Housing Prices and Tariffs on Canadian Softwood Lumber
by Brent Sohngen (Sohngen.1@osu.edu) Click here for roughly 5 minute podcast version of this post [Global Forest Podcast] Understandably, there has been confusion and concern in the marketplace due to the weekend decision by the Trump Administration to impose tariffs…
Will Proposed US Tariffs Hurt US Farmers?
By Ian Sheldon (sheldon.1@osu.edu) In a previous post (Ian Sheldon, “Do US Buyers Bear the Cost of Import Tariffs?”), it was shown that based on analysis of the 2018-19 trade war with China, US buyers bore the cost of US…
Why are nature-based carbon offset prices so low?
By Brent Sohngen (sohngen.1@osu.edu) For nearly 25 years, carbon offsets in agriculture and forestry have been the next big thing – a market with huge potential to increase revenue for farming with certain practices like conservation or no till,…
Cost Estimation for the Ohio Beginning Farmer Tax Credit Program
By: Zhining Sun and Haotian Wu, Ph.D. students and Ani L. Katchova, Professor and Farm Income Enhancement Chair in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. Click here to access the pdf version of…
Characteristics of Ohio Women in Agriculture
By: PhD student Rae Ju and Professor Ani Katchova, Farm Income Enhancement Chair, in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE), and Nanette L. Neal and Sarah Noggle, Extension Educators in Agriculture and Natural Resources in the College…
Farm Credit Mid-America Condition and Performance
By: Rae Ju, a Ph.D. student, Charles Smith, an undergraduate student, and Ani L. Katchova, Professor and Farm Income Enhancement Chair in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. Click here to access the…
Foreign Investments in Ohio Farmland
By: Vishavdeep Sharma, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University, Rabail Chandio, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University, and Ani L. Katchova, a Professor…
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