No one knows whether there will be a 2012 farm bill, but we do know that it there is one, nutrition programs -- food stamps, school lunches, WIC, etc. -- will take up the lion’s share of farm bill funding, well in excess of $90 billion a year. But is the funding serving the neediest Americans? Find out on Thursday at AEI.

A total of 15 different U.S. food and nutrition programs (FANPs) serve about one in four Americans at a current annual cost of almost $100 billion. Can the government actually improve our personal eating habits? Are these billions of dollars well-spent?

A new paper by agricultural economists Vincent Smith and Barry Goodwin on the looming budgetary disaster triggered by the Average Crop Revenue (ACRE) program.

James McNerney, chairman of the National Export Council and CEO of the Boeing Corporation, will deliver a keynote address describing the joint agenda of the government and the council, as well as strategies for achieving the nation's export-doubling goal.

Since the Great Depression, lobbying by farmers has proved particularly lucrative but has threatened to detach agricultural production from the objective of efficiently producing food for consumers. Today, farm policy consists of an array of subsidies, regulations, spending programs, and land-use restrictions which are widely blamed for the increased cost...

In the America of our time a lot of people make livings as actors, musicians and, yes, as puppeteers. I think it's a safe assumption that they get more satisfaction and sense of accomplishment from their work than they would as file clerks or factory workers with significantly higher pay.

China's recent suspension of rare earth shipments has signaled the need for America to take action long before there is a shortage of rare earths, and look to alternative sources and providers.

The success of agriculture as an industry has provided benefits to producers and consumers alike.