Is American agriculture shrinking? -- American agriculture's life cycle -- Profit patterns across American agriculture -- Agricultural profits and farm household wealth -- The economic food chain of global development -- Commodities and the profit squeeze -- Technology as catalyst and treadmill -- Economic development and the irony of American agriculture's technical progress -- Farmland values and uses as indicators of national wealth -- International mutual dependence -- Producers as investors and portfolio managers -- Measuring risk for decision making -- Portfolio decision making of farmland owners and tenants -- Is the market failing producers who wish to manage risks? -- Hedging with off-farm income -- Commodity market evolution -- Regional agriculture as a national industry -- The role of American agribusiness -- Is agriculture a "way of life" or a business? -- The role of American agricultural policy.
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