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shareholders is recommended to increase grower governance of the supply chain and marketing of wheat. …
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Women play an important role in agricultural production and marketing in PNG. However, their contribution to the local … endeavour to generate income from sweet potato marketing. Two group discussions were held in Goroka and Mount Hagen. The results … indicate that specific marketing issues facing women farmers are: heavy work load, high cost and unreliable transport, poor …
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Previous research has found inconsistencies in the valuation of weight and fat characteristics of lamb carcasses between the saleyard and wholesale markets. In this paper, recent New South Wales saleyard and wholesale price data on different classes of lamb are analysed using hedonic methods to...
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The western NSW rangeland is the pastoral zone of NSW, with increasing abundance and distribution of feral goats (Capra hircus). Feral goats are generally viewed as agricultural pests impacting on agricultural production and natural resources but they are also valuable economic resources that...
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In the main, Australian agricultural economics has been in the background in the recent trend toward convergence of … include economics. There was a time when economics played a dominant role in a direct link between farming and research about …
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threatened species is now an important policy issue for State and Commonwealth Governments. Economics is important to achieving …
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The development of molecular markers allows plant breeders to identify desirable traits by analysing DNA rather than undertaking field trials or laboratory tests. This capacity provides a potential for a significant changes to occur within plant breeding programs. However, the value of...
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A set of simulations were run to estimate the impact on gross margins due to improvements in cattle breeding efficiency and other management factors in extensive pastoral systems in Western Australia. The output from the simulations was integrated into a statistical model of gross margin as a...
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To assist in the management of plant breeding programs, and particularly in managing change, the detailed cost structure and the nature of the cost function facing plant breeders need to be known. In this paper, an attempt is made to define a cost function for a representative wheat breeding...
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