Center of Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Policy Center
Web Site
The Center provides a window into significant public policy issues of interest to Maryland, the nation and the world.
Our new web presence should assist you in learning more about us.

This site is dynamic.
As such it is continuously under construction. Components are added or updated as staff time and resources permit.

Visit us often.

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Economics and public policy go hand in hand.
This is especially true in the areas
of agriculture and natural resources.

Chesapeake Bay, Kent County, Maryland, Photo by J. Wade

2008 Policy and Outlook Conference

February 21, 2008

Farming in the 21st Century is an enterprise
governed by public policy.

Markets and resources are monitored and modified
by a host of public policies from the local
to the national and international levels.

Public policy impacts individuals, businesses,
communities and environments.
The impacts are immediate and long term.

This Center provides research, education and outreach
on public policies facing Maryland, the U.S. and the world.

While our audience is mostly local, our outlook is global.
Only then can we adequately serve the public good.

Three external sites with agriculturally related policy articles.

Speaking of a farmer Mark Twain is reported to have said;
"He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty."