Putting Dollars to Waste: Estimating the Value of On-Farm Food Loss (2019)
Information on the volume and value of food that never leaves the field is important from both the perspective of farmers making harvesting decisions and, on an aggregate level, for informing policy decisions related to food loss. Rebecca D. Dunning, Lisa K. Johnson, and Kathryn A. Boys share insights into food loss at the farm level in this article published by Choices, a publication of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.