Craig L. Infanger

Individual Income Redistribution and Publicly Provided Irrigation: The Columbia Basin Project

The performance of publicly provided irrigation as a method of income redistribution is examined by applying fiscal incidence analysis to a representative area in the Columbia Basin Project. Results indicate the redistributional impact of public irrigation is clearly not in favor of lower income classes.

Agricultural Policy in Austerity: The Making of the 1981 Farm Bill

The influence of the congressional budget process on the formulation of agricultural and food program legislation has been generally ignored by policy researchers. In 1981, that budget process imposed spending limitations on agricultural programs to be reauthorized and thereby directly affected the structure of farm policy embodied in the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981. This article examines the legislative actions leading to creation of that act and analyzes the influence of the budget process on those legislative actions.

Analyzing Extension's Role in Macroeconomic Policy Education

. . monetary and fiscal policies, both here and abroad, have more influence on the markets of U.S. farmers and on the prices they receive than do the domestic conditions of agricultural demand and supply. -Schuh 1991 [The] agricultural economics profession has given very little emphasis to macropolicy principles, research and extension education. In my view, a big weakness in the profession and the AJAE. -1991 Survey of State Extension Specialists

A Brief Assessment of Extension Land Use Educational Publications

Land use policy is once again a focus of attention for many agricultural economists. Extension educational programs in this area have produced a large number and variety of publications related to land use. A request for available printed materials on this subject was sent to the fifty extension directors by the authors. The purpose of this paper is to briefly review these publications, assess the strengths and weaknesses of the literature, and offer brief constructive criticism.1 This review of extensions land use publications is appropriate for three reasons: (a) printed media are an important channel of communications between extension professionals and their clientele, and every effort to upgrade and improve publications should be made; (b) cross-fertilization between extension programs improves the total educational effort; and (c) exchange of publications is an important method of communication among extension professionals, and this article hopes to foster this communication.