Acknowledgments
Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode thank Leslie Maulhardt and Shelagh Mackay for their assistance and valuable comments. In addition, they thank the participants in the Conference on the Agricultural Chapter of the Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition Project, held at University of California, Davis, in 1997, for their suggestions. This chapter received financial support from the Farm Foundation and the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Work on this project was facilitated by a fellowship granted to Alan L. Olmstead by the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Turin, Italy. The chapter editors thank Lisa Cappellari, Susana Iranzo, Claudio Robles, Janine L. F. Wilson, and Leslie Maulhardt for their valuable assistance in assembling and preparing the data. Shelagh Mackay deserves special recognition for her insightful comments and for supervising the day-to-day affairs of the project.
Julian M. Alston and Philip G. Pardey gratefully acknowledge the generous financial assistance they received from the U.S. Farm Foundation, which helped make this research possible.
Bruce Gardner thanks Alan Olmstead for his helpful comments on the essay. He thanks Liesl Koch for assistance in preparing the tables on farm income, prices, and agricultural finance, and Ken Erickson, Howard Elitzak, George Smith, Jerome Stam, and Roger Strickland for their help with particular data issues.
Daniel Sumner appreciates the contributions of research assistants Daniel Hallstrom, Nicolai Kuminoff, and Michele Lee. He also acknowledges the help of many individuals and offices at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, especially at the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Farm Service Agency, Agricultural Marketing Service, Economic Research Service, and Office of Budget and Policy Analysis.
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