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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,…

Tax revenues or PILOT II

Tax revenues or PILOT II

Posted by Brent Sohngen Please feel free to email with any questions: sohngen.1@osu.edu The upshot of this post (to see the last post referred to below, go here) You can’t compare two financial analyses that use fundamentally different input data….