The Economics of American Agriculture

I: American Agriculture and Globalization; 1: Is American Agriculture Shrinking?; 2: American Agriculture's Life Cycle; 3: Profit Patterns Across American Agriculture; 4: Agricultural Profits and Farm Household Wealth; II: The Economics of Agriculture and Global Development; 5: The Economic Food Chain of Global Development; 6: Commodities and the Profit Squeeze; 7: Technology as Catalyst and Treadmill; 8: Economic Development and the Irony of American Agriculture's Technical Progress; III: Global Agriculture's Effect on Market Evolution; 9: Farmland Values and Uses as Indicators of National Wealth; 10: International Mutual Dependence; IV: American Production Agriculture's Response; 11: Producers as Investors and Portfolio Managers; 12: Measuring Risk for Decision Making; 13: Portfolio Decision Making of Farmland Owners and Tenants; 14: Is The Market Failing Producers Who Wish to Manage Risks?; 15: Hedging With Off-Farm Income; 16: Commodity Market Evolution; 17: Regional Agriculture as a National Industry; V: American Agricultural Policy Questions; 18: The Role of American Agribusiness; 19: Is Agriculture a "Way of Life"or a Business?; 20: The Role of American Agricultural Policy