Mitch Morehart
Agricultural Economist
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Room N4121
1800 M Street NW
Washington, DC, 20036-5831
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e-mail: MOREHART@ers.usda.gov
phone: (202) 694-5581
fax: (202) 694-5758
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briefly
Mitch Morehart is a Senior Agricultural Economist within the Farm Sector Performance and Well-Being Branch. He conducts research and develops current information and longer-term perspectives about the economic well-being of farm households, the financial structure and performance of farm businesses, and the economic contribution and performance of the farm sector of the U.S. economy. He is actively engaged in the development and management of the annual Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). current projects
- Financial Status and Performance of Farm Businesses
- A Farm Household Analysis of Resource Use and Conservation Decisions
- Effects of Management Decisions on Production Choices and Farm Performance
- Government Payments, Land Values and Barriers to Entry and Exit in Farming
- Determinants of Farm Household's Income and Wealth
- Determining the Effect of Farm and Non-Farm Labor and Human Capital Allocation Decisions on the Economic Well-being of Families that Farm
education
Mitch has been an employee of the Economic Research Service since 1986. He is the product of three Northeast Land Grant Colleges: Penn State University, Rutgers University, and the University of Delaware. He received a M.S. from Rutgers University in 1983 and a B.S. from the University of Delaware in 1981. professional affiliations
Mitch is a member fo the American Agricultural Economics Association and Southern Agricultural Economics Association. He has also served as economics editor of USDA's Agricultural Income and Finance Situation and Outlook Report and as a reviewer for professional journals such as Agricultural Finance Review, Review of Agricultural Economics, and American Journal of Agricultural Economics. publications
Mitch has authored or co-authored of more than 80 ERS bulletins and journal articles that report research results in agricultural finance and farm management. Some recent examples include: "Farm Household Well-Being—Beyond Farmers and Farm Income" (with Jeffrey Hopkins), Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, February 2004. "Balance Sheets for Household-Firms in Agriculture." Workshop on the farm household-firm unit, its importance in agriculture and implications for statistics. Wye Campus of Imperial College, University of London, April 12-13, 2002. "Farm Income, Finance, and Credit Outlook for 2002" (with James Ryan), 2002 Agriculture Outlook Forum, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Arlington, VA, February 21, 2002. Income, Wealth, and the Economic Well-Being of Farm Households (with Askok Mishra, Hisham El-Ostam, Jeffrey Hopkins, and James Johnson), Agricultural Economic Report No. 812, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, July 2002. "Firm Efficiency and Information Technology Use: Evidence from U.S. Farms" (with Jeffrey Hopkins), Selected Paper, AAEA Annual Meetings, Long Beach, CA, August 2002. "Factors Affecting Returns to Labor and Management on U.S. Dairy Farms" (with Askok Mishra), Agricultural Finance Review, Vol. 61, No. 2, Fall 2001, 123-140. "Off-farm Investment of Farm Households: A Logit Analysis"(with Askok Mishra), Agricultural Finance Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, Spring 2001, 87-101. "The Dynamics of Wealth Concentration among Farm Operator Households" (with Hisham El-Osta), Agriculture and Resource Economics Review, April 2002, 84-96.
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February 23, 2004
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