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Perspectives for Decision Support Systems: Irrigated Dairy Production in the Murray region.
Gyles, Oliver; Mahoney, Cynthia; Brown, Stuart; Gibb, Ian - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2000
Consultation with industry identified a range of knowledge and information management tools required for building decision support systems (DSSs) that can help guide sustainable development of irrigated dairy production in the Murray Region. Individual production systems vary in complexity and...
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The Capacity of Producers to Successfully Value Add in the Wool Industry
Crean, Jason; Graham, Phil - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1995
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Models of Agro-industrialisation in China: the Case of the Cattle and Beef Industry
Waldron, Scott A. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1999
The term translated literally as ‘agro-industrialisation’ is used both frequently and loosely by Chinese officials and academics to refer to a range of targets including agricultural integration and commercialisation. Support for the agro-industrialisation process has shifted agricultural...
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Welfare Benefits: the changing face of the Queensland beef industry.
Rolfe, John; Donaghy, Peter - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2000
Australian agriculture has suffered from a long-term decline in its terms of trade and a persistent cost-price squeeze. The effects on farm viability have led to declining and aging rural populations, rising rural unemployment, and substantial agricultural restructuring. To cushion these effects...
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The Australian Wool Industry: A hedonic pricing analysis of the factors affecting price of Australian wool
Gibbon, Candice; Nolan, Elizabeth - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
We estimate a hedonic pricing model to quantify the relationship between clean price of lots of wool and individual lot characteristics for all superfine, fine, medium and broad wool types. We expand on existing literature by controlling for key macroeconomic conditions at the time of sale and...
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“Dairy Industry in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects”
Shamsuddoha, A.K.; Edwards, Geoff W. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2000
Abstract Although, dairying is the most ancient occupation established in the rural setting of Bangladesh, its development is unsatisfactory due to several problems. The main problems concern breeding, feeding, management, diseases and marketing. The dairy sector has also not received adequate...
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Determining the Role of Social Capital in Linking Smallholders with Agribusiness
Patrick, Ian; Marshall, Graham R.; Abdurrahman, Muktasam; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
agribusiness has been variable. Two recent ACIAR studies concluded that there may be more to linking smallholders with the … agribusiness sector than individual smallholder characteristics. This paper hypothesizes that social capital influences the ability … of individual smallholders to take advantage of emerging agribusiness opportunities. It outlines a project proposed by …
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Optimal Feed Mill Blending
Tozer, Peter R.; Stokes, Jeffrey R. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
Commercial feed blending is a complex process consisting of many potential raw ingredients and final products. The sheer number of daily orders and final products at a typical feed mill means that raw ingredients cannot be mixed to directly produce final products in an economical fashion. As a...
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The effect of imports on the Australian pig industry
Purcell, Tim; Harrison, Stephen R. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1999
In 1990 the Australian Government relaxed restrictions on the importation of pigmeat from Canada. In response to declining producer prices and their consequent effect on profitability, the Australian pig industry raised concerns with the Australian Government that the decline in producer price...
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Valuing Remnant Vegetation Using Choice Modelling: An Application to the Desert Uplands of Central Queensland.
Blamey, Russell K.; Rolfe, John; Bennett, Jeffrey W.; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1999
The Desert Uplands is a biogeographic region in central-western Queensland that lies within the rangelands area of Australia. In the region, many pastoralists are clearing the scrub and woodland vegetation in order to improve production for cattle grazing. Only limited production gains are...
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