The disappearance of agricultural land: fact or fiction? / Bruce R. Beattie -- Land trusts: a return to feudalism / Roger Meiners and Bruce Yandle -- Taxation, free markets, and the use of agricultural land / Richard E. Wagner -- The political economy of land conversion on the urban fringe / Samuel R. Staley -- Some issues surrounding land and chemical use in agriculture / B. Delworth Gardner -- Biotechnology, land-use, and the environment: untying the Gordian knot / Henry I. Miller -- To breed, or not to breed? The question of endangered species and agriculture / Ike C. Sugg -- Agriculture and water markets / Terry L. Anderson and Clay J. Landry.