Although increased costs resulting from higher prices for energy-related needs on the farm appear to be the most obvious problem, world marketing complications resulting from the “energy crisis”—not production costs-will also create problems for U. S. agriculture in the next several years.

This article was excerpted (by Mary Bowen Hall) from a paper by Carter and Youdr, “Some Impacts of the Changing Energy Situation on U. S. Agriculture,” presented in August, 1974, at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association; and from a paper by Youde, Hoy F. Carman, and George J. Hellyer, “Energy and Western Agricultural Trade,” presented in Jdy, 1974, at the Annual Meeting of the Western Agricultural Economics Association. Copies of both papers are available from the Department of Agricultural Economics, U.C. Davis.