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David Boussios

USDA Office of the Chief Economist
Verified email at usda.gov
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USDA agricultural projections to 2031

E Dohlman, J Hansen, D Boussios - 2022 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
This report provides projections for the agricultural sector to 2031. Projections cover agricultural
commodities, agricultural trade, and aggregate indicators of the sector, such as farm …

Evaluating US Department of Agriculture's Long-Term Forecasts for US Harvested Area

D Boussios, SR Skorbiansky, M MacLachlan - 2021 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
This report examines the potential for statistical forecast models to improve the performance
of the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) long-term agricultural baseline projections for …

The ERS Country-Commodity Linked System: Documenting Its International Country and Regional Agricultural Baseline Models

K Hjort, D Boussios, R Seeley, J Hansen - 2018 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
To facilitate development of USDA’s annual 10-year agricultural projections, the Economic
Research Service (ERS) maintains models of the agricultural sector of 44 major exporting …

The impact of crop insurance on farm financial outcomes

…, B Brewer, A Featherstone, D Boussios - Applied Economic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We use data from the Kansas Farm Management Association to estimate the impact of crop
insurance liability and insurance indemnities on farm debt. Subsidized crop insurance may …

[PDF][PDF] Market Responses to Export Restrictions From Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreaks

MJ MacLachlan, D Boussios… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Export restrictions often exacerbate the direct production losses and control costs from
infectious animal disease outbreaks by reducing the pool of consumers of animal products. …

Modeling producer responses with dynamic programming: a case for adaptive crop management

D Boussios, PV Preckel, YA Yigezu… - Agricultural …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Past research found agricultural producers’ conditional responses during the growing season
are important adaptations to weather and other stochastic events. Failing to recognize …

Valuing public information in agricultural commodity markets: WASDE corn reports

P Abbott, D Boussios, J Lowenberg DeBoer - 2016 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Monthly WASDE reports by USDA estimate current and future global supply-utilization
balances for various commodities, including corn. Existing literature has shown that markets …

USDA agricultural projections to 2029.

E Dohlman, J Hansen, D Boussios - 2020 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This report provides projections for the agricultural sector to 2029. Projections cover agricultural
commodities, agricultural trade, and aggregate indicators of the sector, such as farm …

[HTML][HTML] Agricultural resource and risk management with multiperiod stochastics: A case of the mixed crop-livestock production system in the drylands of Jordan

D Boussios, PV Preckel, YA Yigezu, P Dixit… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Generally, agricultural production involves several challenges. In the drylands, it is further
complicated by weather-related risks and resource degradation. In this paper, we present a …

The unintended beneficiaries of farm subsidies

D Boussios, M Castillo, B Brewer - Land Economics, 2022 - le.uwpress.org
From 2011 to 2017, the US government paid farmers $6 billion annually in decoupled
subsidies. Around 60% of cropland is rented, so if landlords raise rents in response to subsidy …