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What Does the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” Mean to Tobacco Growers?
Tiller, Kelly; Starnes, Jane H.; Feleke, Shiferaw T. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010
The “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” was signed into law on June 22, 2009. The bill grants the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an authority to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products. Tobacco leaf is not subject to the regulation. As a...
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The Impact of Precision Agriculture Techniques on Kentucky Grain Farmers' Carbon Footprint
Brown, Rachael M.; Dillon, Carl R.; Schieffer, Jack; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
This study estimates the carbon footprint of a Henderson County, Kentucky grain farmer under different production strategies; traditional farming and precision agriculture technologies. Four constrained optimization, whole farm analysis models were formulated under no-till conditions. One of the...
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Consumer Heterogeneity: Does It Affect Policy Responses to the Obesity Epidemic?
Lyford, Conrad P.; Belasco, Eric J.; Chidmi, Benaissa; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010
The fight against obesity in the U.S. has become a priority area for policy makers due to the additional health risks … and health care costs. In developing policy to lower obesity rates, it is important to accurately characterize the impact … that exercise, smoking and demographic characteristics have on BMI in order to draft effective policy. This analysis uses …
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Post-Buyout Structural Change in the Peanut and Tobacco Sectors
Dohlman, Erik; Foreman, Linda F.; Da Pra, Michelle - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010
When longstanding marketing quota systems were eliminated (“bought out”) in 2002 for peanuts and 2004 for tobacco, producers lost quota-related price supports and other quota system protections, and were exposed more directly to a market-oriented system. The nature of the peanut and tobacco...
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Manure Application Rules and Environmental Considerations
Massey, Raymond E.; Gedikoglu, Haluk - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011
Three manure application limits (N Limit, Annual P Limit and P Banking) were modeled with particular attention to the number of hours needed to appropriately distribute manure. The benefit and costs estimates indicated that P Banking was more profitable than N Limit which was more profitable...
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The Preference for Round Number Prices
Klumpp, Joni M.; Brorsen, B. Wade; Anderson, Kim B. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2005
This study determines if a preference for round prices exists in the wheat market and how wheat sales react to price movements around whole dollar amounts. The results show round prices are slightly more prevalent than non-round prices and that transactions increase when price moves above a...
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Testing For Seasonal Cointegration and Error Correction: The U.S. Pecan Price-Inventory Relationship
Ibrahim, Mohammed; Florkowski, Wojciech J. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2005
Using time series data we examine behavior of pecan prices and inventories at zero and seasonal frequencies, given results of seasonal cointegration tests. Both, seasonally unadjusted and adjusted quarterly data are used (1991-2002). Results suggest that, first, shelled and total pecan...
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PRICE-INVENTORY RELATIONSHIP IN THE PECAN INDUSTRY: A STUDY OF LONG- AND SHORT-RUN EFFECTS WITH SEASONAL CONSIDERATION
Ibrahim, Mohammed; Florkowski, Wojciech J. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2004
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An Inverse Almost Ideal Demand System for Oysters in the United States: An Empirical Investigation of the Impacts of Mandatory Labels
Dedah, Cheikhna O.; Keithly Jr., Walter R.; Diop, Hamady; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2007
In 1991, mandatory warning labels were imposed on the sale of oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico. Using an IAIDS model, this paper investigates the impact of these labels on the demand for Gulf product as well related oyster products (the Chesapeake, the Pacific, and imports).
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Modeling the Structural Change in American Frozen Catfish Fillet Demand: An Analysis of Country of Origin Labeling and the Implementation of an Import Tariff
Nalley, Lawton Lanier - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2007
This paper uses the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model to analyze two issues 1) The effect of the implementation of mandatory country of origin labeling and 2) the effect of the tariff on Vietnamese basa. The data would suggest that the first effort (COOL), in 2002, of the CFA to help...
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