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Outcomes of Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers Program in the United States: Trade Reform Act of 2002
Bacho, Alan P.; Goodwin Jr., Harold L. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2008
More farmers and fishermen in the United States are facing global competition than in the last decade. The Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers and Fishermen program is made available to support the impact of declining domestic prices due to agricultural importation. As the program nears...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005503470
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How Much Financial Information is in the Historical Cost and Market Valued Balance Sheets?
Kropp, Jaclyn D.; Moss, Charles B. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
Financial accounting has emphasized the historical cost approach because of its objectivity. Yet in the event of bankruptcy and liquidation, assets will be liquidated at their market values. In this paper, we compare the probability of insolvency computed using market values to the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880639
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Risk Analysis for Agricultural Cooperatives
Kenkel, Philip L.; Parrish, Robert - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
Grain/fertilizer volumes are major risks for grain/supply cooperatives followed by fertilizer and fuel margins. Operating losses force stock write downs (22% probability) and negative cashflow (15% probability). Decisions on cash and stock patronage, infrastructure investment, and equity...
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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF COFFEE PRICE TRANSMISSION IN VIETNAM
Li, Xile; Saghaian, Sayed H. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915009
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Determining the Nature of Dependency between Agribusiness and Non-Agribusiness Stocks
D'Antoni, Jeremy M.; Detre, Joshua D. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
farmland via an index of agribusiness stocks provides significant diversification benefits. We estimated the dependence between … daily returns of the S&P 500 and an index of agribusiness stocks from 1970 through 2008 using copulas. We find significant … evidence that agribusiness stocks have strong lower tail dependence with large U.S. stocks and are actually less correlated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915036
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The Potential for Greenhouse Tomato Production Expansion in Florida
Asci, Serhat; VanSickle, John J.; Cantliffe, Dan - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
The U.S. fresh winter tomato industry and Mexican tomato production have been engaged in a trade conflict since the early1970s. Given that tomato is the highest valued fresh vegetable item, the fresh tomato market in the U.S. is open for rent seeking actions of importers and domestic producers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915038
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EnVesting in an Agricultural Legacy: Design and Implementation of a Targeted Young and Beginning Farmer Loan Program in Arkansas
Goeringer, L. Paul; Goodwin Jr., Harold L.; Dixon, Bruce L. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
U.S. agriculture has seen a decrease in of producers under the age of 35 entering agriculture for the past thirty years. This paper will explore the design and possible implementation of an innovative loan program designed give qualifying new young and beginning producers concessionary interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915054
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Economic Feasibility of Ethanol Production from Sweet Sorghum Juice in Texas
Morris, Brittany D.; Richardson, James W.; Frosch, Brian J. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
The economic feasibility of producing ethanol from sweet sorghum juice is projected using Monte Carlo simulation models to estimate the price ethanol plants will likely have to pay for sweet sorghum and the uncertain returns for ethanol plants. Ethanol plants in high yielding regions will likely...
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Predicting the Corn Basis in the Texas Triangle Area
Mkrtchyan, Vardan; Welch, J. Mark; Power, Gabriel J. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
This study develops a new and straightforward economic model of basis forecasting that outperforms the simple three-year average method suggested in much of the literature. We use monthly data of the corn basis in the Texas Triangle Area from February 1997 to July 2008. The results and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005311027
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Adoption of Technology and Its Impact on Profitability of Young and Beginning Farmers: A Quantile Regression Approach
Adhikari, Arun; Mishra, Ashok K.; Chintawar, Sachin - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220271