Rebecca Nemec Boehm

Rebecca has expertise in how domestic food and agriculture policy impacts U.S. agricultural producers. She has worked on analyses related to farm income, impacts of regulations on farmland values, drivers of conservation practice adoption, food price inflation, and forecasting changes in food assistance program participation. She also serves as Principal Investigator for one of USDA’s Policy Research Centers. Rebecca grew up in California’s Central Valley and got her start at USDA as a research intern with Agricultural Research Service in Parlier, California, collecting soil and water samples from alfalfa fields on the western edge of Fresno County.