“…2 Many studies of the economic impact of the CWB were performed without data on postreform outcomes (see Alston, Carter, & Smith, 1993;Alston & Gray, 2000;Bekkerman, Schweizer, & Smith, 2014;Carter, Loyns, & Berwald, 1998;Carter & Smith, 2001;Furtan, Kraft, & Tyrchniewicz, 1999;Lavoie, 2005;McCorriston & MacLaren, 2006;Tamini, Gervais, & Larue, 2010;Veeman, 1987). In contrast to work by Furtan et al (1999) and Lavoie (2005) who focused on price impacts of the CWB and argued that they found price premiums, we focus on the impact on seeded area, which has received less attention in the literature.…”